The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-14 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET-(THIS DAY

INSULTING RESPECTABLE FEMALES.—Matthew Page,
a shabby genteel looking youth, nho stated himself to be
a journeyman cigar manufacturer, was placed at the bar,
charged with as,aulting Elizabeth Robinson, in Clifton-
street, last ,vening.
The prosecutrix, a respectable looking elderly female,
stated that last evening while she was passing down the
Clifton-street. in company with another female, the prisoner
came up and insulted her, and her husband coming to her
rescue, he struck at him, and placed himself in a fighting
attitude.

The case having been proved,
Mr. GROVE sentenced the prisoner to pay a fine of 403
or be imprisoned for one month, and said that he would
always punish these cases with the utmost severity, as if
he could not keep working-men sober at least he would
teach them them they should not insult respectable females
with impunity.
The prisoner'was then removed in custody.

NATIONAL COIN ti ELATION.
(THIS DAY.)

JOHN FROST, Esq., in the Chair.
The SECRETARY read a letter from the Secretary of the
Working-men's Association of Derby, complaining of the
conduct of the Convention, and stating that the people of
Derby were of opinion " the money raised for the apostate
Stephens' Defence Fund, should be appropriated towards
supporting the families of those unfortunate individuals
who are incarated in prison in consequence of being misled
by the Convention."

The SECRETARY also read another long letter from Dr.
Fletcher, animadverting on the proceedings of the Con.
vention.

SECRETARY'S SALARY.
Mr. PITKEITHLEY brought up the Report of the Com.
mittee appointed to investigate the claim of Mr Smart
for remuneration, as Secretary, which was as follows :
" The Committee having duly considered the case of
Mr. Smart, are of opinion that as his duties were limited
and he being a member of the Council, and having re.
ceived an extra amount during its sittings, and also 5/,
while it did not sit, that the remuneration has been ample.'
It having been moved and seconded that the Report b.
confirmed,

Mr. CARPENTER opposed the motion. Mr. Stuart had
discharged the duties of Secretary most sedulously, and
no complaint had been made against him.
Mr. SMART said he had served for one month without
receiving any remuneration.

Mr. CARPENTER then moved as an amendment, that 51.
be paid to Mr. Smart for his services as Secretary.
Mr. NEESOM seconded the amendment.
After some discussion a show of hands was taken, when
there appeared--
For the motion
For the amendment
Majority for giving Mr. Smart 51 —2
ADDRESS.

Mr. CARPENTER then submitted to the Convention an
Address that he had composed from the Addresses that
had already been laid befor e the Convention ; which was
agreed to; and Mr. Carpenter and Dr. Taylor were de-
puted to peruse it before being published, and to mak e
any verbal alterations they might deem necessary.
Some money votes were come to, and after thanks being
given to the chairman, the Convention was dissolved.

ELECTION OF MINISTER TO ST.
JAMES'S, CLERKENWELL, AND THE
CHURCH-RATE QUESTION.

The contest now carrying on between the Rev. Messrs.
Faulkner and Dillon, for the perpetual curacy of the
parish of St. James, Clerkenwell, although a matter of
merely local interest, becomes a subject of public importance
when viewed as an index to the feelings of a populous,
and peculiarly Church-going parish, regarding the ques-
tion of Church-rates. The friends of Mr. Faulkner bring
it forward as matter of accusation against Dr. Dillon,
that he sometime since figured away as an upholder of
Church-rates, and a violent vituperator of all those who
were from conscience opposed to the levying of this
hated impost. The friends of Dr. Dillon on the
other hand, leaving these accusations unnoticed, urge in
his favour that his appointment to the office will attract so
large a congregation, that all expenses will be paid by the
pew rents, and thus Church..rates will be effectually extin-
guished in the parish. From this it appears that such is the
aversion to Churcb-rates, even among Churchmen them-
selves, that those who on other occasions hat-e gone to the
extent of stigmatising a refusal to pay Church-rates as a
declaration of war against God,deem it prudent,when solicit-
ing the suffrages of their fellow-parisioners, to assume for
the nonce the character of opponents to this most oppres-
sive and unjust extortion,
which seems to be equally repu-
diated by both parties. This is surely a great victory fur
the cause of truth and justice. Thorogood and his fellow-
martyrs at Truro, Llanon, and elsewhere have not suffered
in vain.

EXTRA ORDIN ARY DISCOVERY
OF A HUMAN SKELETON IN THE STRAND
SEWER.

A discovery of the remains of a human being was made
on Fri lay morning, under circumstances of no ordinary
character. Through the principal streets of the metropo-
lis are the common sewers, and the branches of them pass
pass by side streets into the river Thames. In these places,
improbable as it may appear, there are people who have
a local habitation, a name, end the means by which they
get their daily bread.
Two men, who belong to this class of la'‘ings, named
Walker and Lake, proceeded to the sewer by the river
side, at the end of Essex-street, Strand. They walked
upwards in it to seek for money or other property which
might have been carried down by the gutters, and it is
said that in the course of their journey they picked up no
less than 7s. 63; this was before they reached to they
Strand, and it seems an unusual course was then
taken by them, for while others, as the report goes, are in
the habit of getting as far as Holborn and Oxford-street
under ground, these mrn, Walker and Lake, turned to the
right, and when they had got as far as Temple-bar, and at
the end of Shire-lane, they found the skeleton of a man,
in a sitting posture, the skull lying by its side, and its legs
also separated from it. Fear induced them to make a hasty
retreat, and they refused to bring the remains out. Intbr-
mation was sent to Mr. Terry, the beadle of st. Clement
Danes; and the skeleton was placed in a shell and con-
veyed to the ship in Essex-street, the two men being in.
duced to put it in a sack and bring it through the sewer.
At a subsequent part of the day, Inspector Muliens of
the F division, accompanied by Serjeants Selway and
Pocock, went up the sewer, knee deep in mild, in order
if possible to get some clue by which this extraordinary
case may be unravelled, but their exertions here not at-
tended with much success. They found a shoe, a part of
a pair of leather breeches, and the remains of a leather
apron ; the body and the rest of the clothes are supposed
to have been eaten by the rats, which were seen of an
immense size by the officers.
The only opinion that the facts at present warrant is,
that the deceased was one who followed the same occupa-
tion as Walker awl Lake, and that having got far into
what appears an unfrequented part of the sewer, he had
either lost his way and was destroyed by the rats, or that
he had sat down and was suffocated by malaria.

__—
REPRESENT A T I 0 OF THE INVERNESS
BURGHS.--Mr. Maclz cnzie of Scatwell has, we believe,
signified to his political friends in this quarter, that he uill
not contest the Inverness Burghs at the next election.
The Honourable Gentleman is understood to be on the eve
of departure for the continent, where he will reside fur
some time. The present Liberal representative of the
burghs, Mr. Macleod of Cadholl, is not, however, to be
allowed to walk the course. A requisition is at present in
course of signature, and has ben signed by a number
of the Conservatives, to Mr. John Fraser, a gentleman
long resident in India, as a merchant. Air. Fraser
his t pde, rsoornoa l
creditable history,
t 0
00 h
ifaari
is, we understand, a native of Inverness, and the
mniusstrvc•e
h circumstancesheard
th
eomf
perseverance, and integrity. What may
be his
qualifications
• • •ations for public life we do rot know • but , in the
meantime the friends of the sitting Member should be on
the alert. To be forewarned is to be forearmed, says an
old adage, and though some time may el apse before ano-
ther election, the Liberals should be
prepared for a keen
struggle. Mr. Macleod's majority
a number certainly not large nough was
only nineteen_
to lull the Liberal
/n
electors into security, Mr. Ait-
enzie, of Scatwell, has
just issued an address to the electors, in which he states
that a circumstance of a domestic nature has occurred,
which be could not controul, and whichwilloblige
sojourn in Italy for an . indefinite period.—lnverness Cou-
rier of Wednesday.
THE SCHOOLRAeT . Eft ABROAD.--IVI. Vrn
Amburgh (says a Pais
despaper)has proposed to the super-
intendents of the JarrliPlantos to educate their me-
nagerie in less than three
months, and the proposal has
been transmitted by

V
iN N
L-1- La) I T

CO WIT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—Her Majesty rode out on
horseback at four o'clock this afternoon, attended by
the Baroness Lehzen, Miss Quentin, Viscount Mel-
bourne, Earl of Uxbridge, Earl of Surrey, and Sir
George Quentin. Three of the Royal carriages fol-
lowed the equestrian party. In the first carriage were
Madame d'Hooghvoorst, Lady Lyttelton, and Count
d'Arschot ; and in the other carriages were Madame
Van der Weyer, the Lady of the Belgian Minister,
Hon. Miss Pitt, Lady Harriet Clive, and others of the
Royal Suite. Viscount Palmerston rode out soon after
the Royal party.
The King and Queen of the Belgians, and the
Duchess of Kent returned yesterday evening to the
Castle from Dropmore, the residence of Lady. Gren-
ville. This morning their Majesties and the Royal
Duchess left the Castle for Bushy Park, from whence
the King goes to Claremont, where his Majesty will
pass the night. The Queen of the Belgians and the
Duchess of Kent will return this evening to the Castle.
Her Majesty has a dinner party this evening. The
company expected are—The Queen of the Belgians,
the Duchess of Kent, the Belgian Minister and Madame
Van der ‘Veyer, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Pal-
merston, Lord J. Russell, Hon. Miss Lister, Earl of
Uxbridge, Sir G. Grey, Sir Hamilton Seymour (Her
Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Brus-
sels), Hon. Sir William Lumley, Madame d'Hoogvoorst,
Lady Lyttelton, Lady Charlotte Dundas, Hon. Miss
Pitt, Hon. Miss Spring Rice, Lady Harriet Clive, Ba-
roness Lehzen, Earl of Fingal, Count d'Arschot, Earl
of Surrey, and Sir Robert Otway.
Some of the gu3sts (the Earl of Uxbridge and Sir
George Grey) have already arrived.
The Lady Isabella Wemyss is expected to arrive at
the Castle o-morrow.

Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians
and the Duchess of Kent, arrived at Bushy House,
Bushy Park, at half-past one o'clock yesterday after-
noon from Windsor Castle, to pay a visit to her Majesty
the Queen Dowager. A dejeune was served at two
o clock to the Royal Party. Among the company were
her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta, Viscount and
Viscountess Barrington, Lady Gore, Miss Gore, Hon-
Mr. Ashley, and the Hon. Captain Curzon.
In the afternoon King Leopold left Bushy House
for his seat at Claremont ; and the Queen of the Bel-
gians and the Duchess of Kent took their departure
for Windsor Castle.

The Hon. Mr. Ashley, Vice-Chamberlain to the
Queen Dowager, arrived at. Bushy House, yesterday
morning, from town.
His Excellency, Mr. Stevenson, the American Mi-
nister, has returned to his residence in Portland-place,
and transacted business at the Foreign-office and the
Treasury yesterday.

The Hon. Louis M‘Lane, some years since Envoy
Extraordinary at this Court, and since Secretary Of
State of the United States, has arrived at Thomas's
Hotel, Berkeley-square.
The Marquis of Normanby left town yesterday more'.
ng on a visit to the Duke of Devonshire, at his seat,
Chatsworth, Derbyshire.
Mr. Charles Wood, M.P., had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday in Downing~
street.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGEN CE.

ARRIVALS.

The Dowager Marchioness of Queensberry and the
Ladies Douglas, at the Burlington Hotel, Cork-street,.
from Leamington ; the Dowager Countess of Galloway andt
Lady Caroline Stewart, at Sir George Murray's, in Bel-
grave-square, from Rosalyn House ; Lord and Lady Hog;
den, in Hereford-street, from Paris ; Lady Williams *AT
Miss Trotter, in Grosvenor-square, from Tunbridge; Lau'
Fitzallan, at the Hyde-park Hotel, to join Lady Fitzallanr
from Arundel Castle ; Mr. Bertie Mathew, in Brook'
street, from Worthington's Hotel, Dover; Lady Col"
bruoke and family, from the Continent ; General Sir Ea""
ward and Lady Harriet Paget, at Chelsea College, from
Dover; his Excellency Count D'Aglie, at the PultlneY,.
Hotel, Albemarle-street, from the Continent ; Marquis 01
Waterford, at the Cavendish Hotel, Jermyn-street, from
Eglinton Castle, Scotland ; Mandeville, Esq., it
ditto, from ditto ; John Goldie Walker, Esq,, at ditto,
from Manchester ; A. Lawrie, Esq., at ditto, from Cal..
cutta ; John Pryce, Esq., at ditto, from the Continent
Edward Ballard, Esq., at ditto, from ditto ; F. H. C°ll3e:
wall, Esq., at ditto, from his seat, Delbury Hall, Ludo° '
M. Roche, Esq., at ditto, from Paris.

DEPARTURES.
Sir William Foster, Bart., for Norwich ; Miss Coutts
Trotter, from Grosvenor-square, for Tunbridge Wells;
;
Sir William and Lady Chatterton, fromSeymour-
place
Curzon. street. on a visit to Lord and Lady Barbaro'Exton Park, Rutland; Sir Horace Seymour and
Clinton, from St. James's place, on a visit to General and East
_ Mrs. Wyndham, at Pet worth; Lady Ts sdea, for
Cliff House, Dover; Major and Mrs. Addison, for Can-
terbury; Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. Nesbitt, for Can-
terbury ; Colonel Howard, K. H., for Weymouth ;
Major
and Mrs. Picton B
,l3eete, to embark for Madras; Lieut.-
Colonel Taylor, for the Royal Military College at Sand-
hurst ; Mr. and Mrs. Bonar, front Sir George Murray's,
Belgrave-square, on a tour; Captain St. Leger, from
Baker-street, for the Moors of Inverness-shire ; P. H.
Howard, Esq., M. P., from Lower Brook-street, for
Cumberland ; the Hon. Captain and Mrs. Criven Berke-
ley, from Spring-gardens, on a tour • Major Chetwyad,
M. P., for Bruton Hall, Lichfield, gtaffordshire ; Rear-
Admiral Sir William Parker and Sir William Syra
Plymouth
from the Admiralty, to inspect the Dockyards at
and Pembroke ; Lord and Lady Charles Fitzroy, for Shad.
brooke Lodge, Northamptonshire; Massey Stanley, EstlS'
M. P., from the Clarendon Hotel, for Wooton Hall,
Cheshire ; Capt. John Stanley, for ditto ; Mr. Hope, M. P
from Mansfield-street, on a visit to Lord and Lady Bercsford,
at Bedgebtiry Park, Kent ; Dr., Mrs., and Miss Ferguson,
from the Cavendish Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Brighton ;
James Ferguson, Esq., from ditto, for ditto; Mrs. and
Miss Blair, from ditto, for ditto; Gardener Boggs, Esq.,
from ditto, for Liverpool; Captain Hawkins, from ditto,
for Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Boucher, from ditto, for
Paris ; A. Cruiser, Esq., from ditto, for Southampton ; ,
Mr. and Mrs. Chomday, from ditto, for Brussels; the
Dowager Lady Barrington and the Misses Barrington,
from Patterson's Hotel, Brook-street, for Norfolk; Mrs.
Lushington and family, from ditto, for Leamington ; Sir
David and Lady Erskine, from ditto, for Scotland ; Rev.
Mr. Smith and fanily, from ditto, for Canterbury; Sir
Thomas and Lady Cullum, from the Brunswick Hotel,
Jermyn-street, for Hardwick House, Bury St. Edmund's;
John Lees, Esq., and Mrs. Lees, from ditto, for Ryde
Castle ; G. S. Harcourt, Esq , M. P., from ditto, for An-
korwycke House; M. le Compte Roudeaux de Courcy and
M. Ca:sense, from ditto, for Ramsgate ; M. le Compte
and Comptssse Hoonthal, and M. le Compte St. Germain
Manforton, from ditto, for the Continent; Mrs. Arabia,
from ditto, for High Beach. •

CHANGES,
The Marquis and Marchioness of Thomond, at the
Kentish Hotel, Tunbridge-wells, from Brighton; Sir R 9•
bert and the Misses Newman, at Mar nhead, near Exeter,
from Totues Races ; the Marquis and Marchioness of
Douro, from a visit to Mr. Baillie, of Dochfour, for Yester
House, Haddington ; Sir William and the Hon. Lady
Middleton, at Shrubland, Suffolk, from a visiting tour;
Mr. Briscoe, M. P., at Tunbridge.. wells, from Twickenham.

ÜBLIC DINNER TO MR. WILLIAM WEIR.
—On Tuesday evening a public dinner was given in the
Commercial Hotel to Mr. Weir, late Editor of the Glas:-
gotv Argus, in token of his services in the cause of civil
and religicus liberty, of free trade, and of the educazien of
the people. John Fleming, E,q., of Clairmont, filled the
office of Chairman. Alex. Johnston, EEq., of Shieldbal),
was croupier. The company was highly respectable and
numerous. Previous tr 4 the dinner the company presented
Mr. Weir with an elegant piece of plate. Glasgow
Chronicle.

CHURCH-RATES.—A Church-rate has been a
third time reused at Holtnfirth. Last year, a subscription
was set on foot in lieu of it, and the Dissenters lib,,rall.!
contributed; but not onlyhave the Churchwardens refused
to state the amount and appropriation of the money, but
have even applied again for a rate. They were defeated,
however, by two to one, in a vestry of 500.
Ellen Tree lit up a flame in the heart of a O
who rag s-
ceptiblc young gentleman from Baltimore, her
almost inseparable companion upon the passage. if report
be true, the lady her2elf was anything but displeased with
the gentleman's attention—New York Morning Herald,
Aug. 20.

The Rev. Dr. Lee has been appointed head of
the Committee for superintending the printing of the Bible
in Scotland, to ensure the perfect integrity of the tog='
Dr. Lee is the most celebrated Hebrew scholar of the age;
his appointment, therefore, to an office so important is at,
once a tribute to his character, and a proof of the desire of
the Government to preserve the Sacred Volume from in-
terpolations and errors, whether the result of carelessness
or design, to which it would be exposed, were not some
competent and responsible authority appointed to superin-
tend. the printing of every edition, from whatever press
may issue.

Tie first l
as stonet of
ate
Chapeli was in Portland-place Primitive
on Friday
y
e
by Mr. Harrison, of Gainsborough. Mr. H. stated thrit
at the last Leeds Conference the Society in England com-
prised 70,396 members ; 467 travelling, and 6,279 local
preachers; 1,025 chapels; 55,838 sabba.th.school chil-
dren ; and 11,015 teachers. Provided the Primitives
retain their zeal and humility, they will quickly rise to im-
portance Methodistlas
t,
in Lincoln ; the want of a lit place of worship
has hitherto been the main clrawb,:ck on their progress.--
Li'lcoln Mercury.
On Friday morning last, an excellent rick of
hay, containing upwards of twenty tons, the property of
Mr. Thomas Cornish, was discovered to be on fire. A
great number of people were soon on the spot with the
fire engines, and through their exertions part of the rick
was saved. On examining the part that was saved, it was
evident that it did not occur from heating, and leaves no
doubt but that it was the act of some diabolical incendiary-
_Sherborne Journal.

We are happy to hear that the noble example
set by an unknown individual, who lately gave FOOL to
the Shipwreck Association, has been followed by a gentle-
man, Rho also withholds his name, but who, we believe.
had already been a benefactor to a large amount, and who
bas now contributed the munificent donation of 100 guineas.
rincoln Mercury.
CURIOUS HARVESTING IN THE FENS.—In
North Kyne, and other parts of the fens in this county,
farmers are paying 303. per acre for reaping, the men em-
ployed working, up to their knees in water. To prevent
their taking cold, they are well supplied with strong ale,
and at times with spirits. The corn is taken away in boats,
and laid upon the grass to dry.—Stanford Mercury: