The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-03 00:00:00

George Howard, a waterman was then charged with I
having allowed a gentleman to fish from his boat, on the
24th ult. There was an error in the summons as to the
place in which the offence was said to have been commit-
ted, but the defendant waised any objection to that • iror,
as be was informed that he should be obliged to a pear
again upon a corrected summons if he pleaded the infor-
mality.
The fishing was proved. The defendant mixed the
bait. The defendant said that he was privileged as a
vraterman to follow his occupation on a Sunday.
The Lord MAYOR—Yes, but you are not allowed to
follow other people's occupation and to help gentlemen to
fish.
Defendant—My defence is that I went out for hire in
my lawful occupation.
The LORD MAYOR—And the fault I find with you is
that you had a person in your boat acting illegally.
Defendant—l did not know that he was going to fish
when he hired me. If your Lordship will fine a free
Waterman for pursuing his occupation, you ought to stop the
steamers, which have almost knocked us all up.
The LORD MAYORI don't want to fine you. Pro-
duce the gentleman who fished from your boat.
Defendant—l don't know who he is, or anything about
him. _

The LORD MAYOR—Then you are fined 40 shillings.
Defendant-1 have no money, my Lord.
The Loan MAYOR—Then a warrant of distress must
issue against your goods.
A stranger here protested against the penalty.
The LORD MAYOR—Who are you ?
Stranger—The defendant served his time to me, and I
am now his partner.
The LORD MAYOR—Very well. Then of course half of
the penalty will fall upon you.
The day on which the summonses to the gentleman
fisherman are returnable, is Thursday next, and a regular
scene is expected.
A gentleman complained to the Lord Mayor that the
placard daubers not only covered all the hoarding round
the space on which the Royal Exchange stood with their
large bills of all kinds, but actually covered the notices
which the tradesmen and brokers, who formerly bad shops
and offices round the late building, had put up stating to
what places they had removed. The conduct of these
fellows had already, the applicant stated, occasioned much
inconvenience.

The Loan MA/ OR immediately gave directions to the
police on the subject, and stated that by the new Act those
who put up any bills were liable to a penalty, and that the
conduct of these bill-stickers was a serious aggravation of
the offence.

Mr. Whithair, the Superintendent of the City Police,
in answer to a question from the' Lord Mayor, said that not
one of the publicans in the City opened his house until
the time allowed by law on the Sund'ty just gone by, and
that the decisive manner in which his Lordship had acted
in the ca=c of the person who transgressed in the Minories
on the 25th of August had evidently settled the question
as to the chance of impun'ty.

Q UEEIV. S Q UA RE.
William Walker, a powerful looking man, was brought
up charged with having assaulted no less than five private
individuals and nine police constables.
Mrs. Charlotte Baxter, upon whom the severest assault
had been made, and who, from the injuries she had re-
ceived, was obliged to be taken to the Westminster Hos-
pital, from whence she had only just come to give evidence
against the prisoner, and was now so weak as to be inca-
pable of giving her evidence standing, was accommodated
with a chair, when she stated that on Sunday morning she
went to visit her mother in Windsor-place, and had not
been in the house but a few minutes before she heard a
great uproar in the adjoining house. A great crowd had
assembled outside, and her sister and herself went to see
what was the matter : dome person near them said " What's
this ?" when the prisoner, who seemed to be raging mad,
struck her sister a violent blow, which felled her to the
ground; be then attacked • the complainant, knocked her
down, knelt upon her chest and stomach, and beat her so
severely as to make her insensible, and make her removal
to the Hospital necessary.
Inspector Barefoot said that it was at first thought the
prisoner bad killed the complainant. It took nine con-
stables to take him to the station, and when he got to
the station he was almost naked, he having been so violent
on the way as to tear every article of clothing off himself,
and he had likewise done damage to the constables' c:oth-
ing to the extent of four shillings.
Mr. Gas GOP.IE said this being the most serious com-
plaint, he should content himself with hearing that, and
asked what the prisoner had to .say.in defence ?—The pri-
soner merely replied that he was drunk
Mr. GREeORIE told him he had been guilty of most ruf-
fianly conduct, and he should inflict the extreme penalty
of 5/ for the assault, or two months' imprisonment with
hard labour is default, in addition to which he would pay
the four shillings damage, or go to prison for a further
period of fourteen days.—Committed in dthult.

THE SUN, L

SURRENDER 0 F DON CARLOS.

(From the Globe of last Night.)
We can only call the attention of our readers he
rumour which will be found under our City head, dated
Two o'Clock, to the effect that Don Carlos has surren-
dered to Espartero, and that Maroto has joined his forces
to those of his legitimate Sovereign the Queen of Spain.
Another rumour current is that Don Carlos has sur-
rendered to Lord John Hay, and claimed the protection
of the British flag.
In either case the war in Spain is necessarily at an end.

It will be seen by the following letter rom our Paris
correspondent, that there is every probability of the
above rumour being well founded
PARIS, Au°. 31.—" A telegraphic despatch was
received yesterday by the Government, dated Ba-
yonne, August the 30th, stating that the coo-
ference between the Carlist Chiefs had broke;,
up, and that the conclusion being unfavouroble to any
arrangement between themselves, Maroto had recom-
menced his march, and made his dispositions for putting
himself into correspondence with Espartero.
" It was expected that this despatch would appear in
the Moniteur this morning, which is not the case ; but
you may rely upon the authenticity of the information.
The position of Don Carlos is therefore hopeless, and
the Spanish affair, which your Chartists and our soi
disant Liberals have represented as disgraceful to
the English and French Governments by their re-
fraining from a forcible intervention, is likely, through
a prudent and patient course of conduct, to
be settled as quietly and permanently as the
affair of Belgium, respecting which the Tories
so long reproached Lord Palmerston. Any other
course than the cautious one which has been
taken might have plunged Europe in a general war ;
whereas the French and English Cabinets, having
been throughout agreed on their line of policy,
have arrived at the desired result without giving
an excuse for active demonstrations in favour
of Don Carlos by other parties had they been
so disposed. A Cabinet Council was held yes-
terday , immediately after the receipt of the tele-
graphic despatch, and before five o'clock a telegraphic
despatch in return was sent off to Bayonne, It is
stated, and I believe truly, that Maroto has made over-
tures to France and England, inviting them to interfere
to put an end to the civil war. Despatches were sent
off to England last night, which had reference probably
to this circumstance.

" The Government had not, up to two o'clock, re-
ceived anything new from the East, but the last
communications are said to have been very satisfactory.
It is generally believed that the question of Syria
will be partially ceded to the Viceroy, but that
good guarantees will be taken against the probability
hereafter of any disturbance of the peace between
Turkey and Egypt, through the warlike propensities of
Ibrahim.

" It is rumoured on 'Change this afternoon that Do
Carlos has expressed a wish to quit Spain; finding hi

. .
cause hopeless, and to leave the arrangement in
bandy of the great Powers of Europe. Tnis is not

probable, but no official information of the kind

been received.

" The newspapers and large bills on the walls ar
nounce an extraordinary exhibition in the Cham
de Mars for to-morrow, and the following days
A M. Enhiot pretends to have discovere,
the infallible means of navigating balloons, ani
invites people to inspect his balloon. It is of an oblon;
shape with a boat or car, with a long rudder and paddle
resembling the sails of a windmill."
We are enabled to state, on the best official authority
that the alleged refusal of MEHEMET ALI to give u
the Turkish fleet on the requisition of the five Power.,
is altogether untrue.

METROPOLI FAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The Globe of last even comments with just seve-
rity on the shameful Tory trick of perverting the Dover
banquet to the Duke of Wellington, into a political ex
hibition for the display of Conservative hatred tt
the present Liberal Government. " The Dover B in.
quet in honour of the Duke of Wellington,'
says our Contemporary, " whatever might la
the splendour of its decorations, the richness and abut,
dance of its provisions, and the rank and number of ;
guests—was by no means calculated to answer
professed design. It was, in the first in.
stance, proposed to be a demonstration of respect
toward the illustrious Duke, from which,
order to secure the accordance and co-opera-
Lion of men of all parties, politics were to be exclude:l.
As the Time: of this meriting admits, nominally, it
only a dinner given by the inhabitants of the Citiqtie
Ports, as a tribute of respect to their Lord Warden.'
The inhabitants of the Cinque Ports, aitbout resp-et
party, concurred in the object, and aided in its accomplisli-
meta. Several of the most distinguished Liberals ,'
the district, both in and out of Parliament, lent thci,
aid to carry out the professed designs of the pro-
jectors, and were present at the banquet. L
adopting this course they .were, doubtless, influence(
by the laudable desire of showing to their (ip n.
nents that no play distinctions could interpose a barne,
between the respect and honour which Englishmen o
all parties concur in paying to the Illustrious warrior b)
whom their armies were led forth to battle and t.,
victory, the despot who aimed at nothing short of uni-
versal empire was hurled from his throne, and the Con-
tinent of Europe delivered from his tyranny, and
made debtor to Britain for that deliverance. The
grateful recollection of those eminent services will
never be obliterated from the hearts of English-
men. Neither the honours of a dukedom, which the
Crown conferred, nor the splendid demesne of Strath-
fieldsaye, with a grant of money from the national re-
sources equal to a Prince's ransom, which the people's
representatives bestowed, were deemed too vast a re-
compense for services so eminent. It was an evil day
for Wellington s character when the nation's hero stooped
from his elevation, where he stood the object of that
nation's pride, to become the prop of a falling party. The
Tories, conscious of their hopeless condition, sought re-
fuge under the popularity of his name acquired in fields
far different from those in which they now sought his
aid—where they could lose nothing in character
failure which they had nut already lost, but in which
he would jeopardise the affectionate veneration of at least
a part of the people for whom he fought and conquered,
and from whom he possessed the ample rewards they
in their admiring gratitude had awarded
The Tories' unwearied efforts to connect Wellington
with them as their leader, and the stratagems they can-
ploy to share in the honours which Englishmen still
pay to his military character, are too evident to pas:
unnoticed. They are expressive of conscious weakness :
of their inability to attain, by their own legitimate claims
as a political party, the power they have lost, and for
which they hopelessly lament. To afford their discom-
fited party a drop of consolation under the heavy
appointment of last May, when the Queen irsterpos,4l
and saved the nation from the evils of rester; d
Tory domination, the Dover banquet to the Duke a
Wellington was projected—its prospectus was issued—
the usual profession of " no political object—the occa-
sion is too national to be prescribed within tlo,
narrow limits of party"—was adopted. The re-
sult was illustrative of the low arts to which
Toryism will stoop—the name of the Duke of Wt:;-
lington was again made—as it has on former occasions of
similar exigency—a cloak with which to cover their
specious designs. The arrangements of the meetiiig
were of a decidedly political character—the design of
its projectors was that they should be so—in order that
the journals of the party might be able to describe it as
a grand demonstration in favour of Toryism."
The Courier takes the same view of this question
It having been specifically stated from the first," says
that Journal, " and the fact having been universa4
understood, that the entertainment given on Friday
last at Dover to the Duke of Wellington was simply
a tribute of respect and admiration with which political
feeling had nothing whatever to do, some persons
must be surprised to find that the true secret of
the gathering in the Cinque Ports is the enthu
siastic sympathy svith the political opinions of tha
illustrious guest upoia that occasion, which prevails lin
from the cliffs of Dower to the opposite extremity .4
the land ! It was' admitted on all hands th t
there were to be no politics--every delicacy of the season
else—but politics were forbidden fruit ; and yet it
is now proclaimed that it was nothing if not
political. Could we believe that the Dover
demonstration was nothing more than a mere
-supplement to those fugitive honours with which the
Duke has long been satiated, we should immediately
pronounce it a vain and unprofitable pageant. Batt
we know that it was far otherwise. Advat:cing daily
in a correct appreciation of his Grace's political
wisdom, the majority of our countrymen are Liesiroui
of awarding it that elevated moral requital which Con-
sists in a practical submission to its guidance. This as
the true secret of that magnificent gathering.' It may
he ; but if so, it is a pity that the parties did not
openly state the fact at first. There ought to have I
been no • secret' in the matter. Look at the result o
their suppression of the real design of the dinner—whiel
was, it seems, to swallow at a single magnificent
meal the whole political doctrine of the Duke—in-
cluding his Grace's views of the rotten boroughs, which
he would have invented but for two reasons, first, that
they were already in existence, and next that he could
never have hoped for inspiration enough to con-
ceive an idea of such invaluable expedients ; in-
cluding also, his Grace's inwardly directed views, when
after csilmly comparing his own capacity with the
capacity requisite for the Premiership, he declared
hat he should be road to accept office. Observe,
we say, one of the results of suppressing the real
object of these hypocritical devourers in Dover."
The Standard prudently abstains from all allusion to
the Dover Bar quet, and contents itself with lauding
the Conservatives of Manchester in Choosing Sir George
Murray to represent them, to the exclusion of Colonel
Thompson and Mr. Greg. •riley (the Conservative:.)
have shown," observes the Standard. " their good so- Se
and greatly increased the chances in their favour,
by inviting one of the ablest and most upright