The Sun.
London, England, 1830-03-30 00:00:00

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QUEEN-SQUARE.

Four more of the miscreants who infest Hyde-park at
night were brought up in custody from the watch-house,
and placed at the bar before Messrs. GREG ORIZ and WHITE.
The first was a very respectable-looking young man,
who gave his name and address, James Byrne, No. 1,
Duke-street, Grosvenor-square. On being further ques-
tioned, he said be was a clerk in the India-house, in the
Audit-office.

Michael Cannon, police constable, S. division, No. 46,
was on duty about nine o'clock in the evening in Hyde-
park ;he was disguised in plain clothes. The witness here
detailed the nature of the assault charged against the pri-
soner. On being taken to the watch-house, the prisoner
told the inspector he was rather tipsy, or he would not
have been guilty of such an act.
The prisoner, in his defence, said, if he had acted in the
manner stated by the constable, it was from being in liquor.
His servant could prove he had drank a great quantity.--
He was only going to Knightsbridge to buy a cigar.
Mr. David Williamson, inspector of the S. dit ision of
police, was called by Mr. Gregorie and questioned as to
the state the prisoner was in when brought to the watch-
house. He said the prisoner did not appear to be in the
least intoxicated.

The prisoner wished to call a witness, when a very re-
spectable-looking young man came forward, and gave his
name and address Mr. George Cox, of No. 57, Torring-
ton-square. He stated that he had known Mr. Byrne above
six years, and never knew any thing against hie moral
conduct.
Mr. Wurrs—What are you, Sir ? Witness—l am a
clerk in the Indii House in the same department as Mr.
Byrne. . .

The Magistrates, after consulting, fined the prisoner
51., the full penalty.
The money was instantly paid, and the prisoner left the
office with his friend, amidst the hootings of a crowd as-
sembled outside.

The next was a genteel-looking young man, fashionably
dressed in a blue frock coat. He would not at first give
his name, but at last gave the name of Frederick Sims.
He lived at Devonport, in Devonshire, and had only ar-
rived in town from Bath on Saturday evening, when he
took a walk in Hyde Park, previous to his taking lodgings
in town. The name given is a fictitious one, his real
name being Mr. F. H. Symons. Thomas Byrne, S. di-
vision, No. 43, gave evidence in this case, which IV di the
worst of any. In reply the prisoner attempted, in a most
ingenious manner, to give a different meaning to the lan-
guage he used, and said the assault was accidental.
The Magistrates ordered him to find bail, himself in
100/., and two sureties in 50/. each, and 24 hours' notice
of bail. _ .

The remaining two were then placed at the bar : one
stated himself to be a gentleman's servant at Berkhatnsted,
in Hertfordshire, and the other a lodger in Norfolk-street,
Strand. The evidence having been gone into, the con-
stables could not swear positively, and there appearine a
doubt, the Magistrate said the safest way would be to dis-
charge them.
This makes 14 of the gang. The two last, as they were
discharged, it might be unfair to name.

UNION-HALL
Yesterday a matronly-looking woman named Anne
Smith, was charged with stealing, on the 3d instant,
aged five years, a child named Christiana Merrilees. It
appeared from the evidence of the father (who had the
child in his arms), that he resides at No. 2, Green-street,
Church-street, Blackfriars-road. On the 3d instant the
child was taken to school, and at the expiration of school
boors her arrival was expected, but she did not return.
On inquiry at the school, he found that the child had been
taken charge of by an elder scholar, and on their way
home they stopped to see the performance of some jugglers
who were exhibiting in the streets, when, according to the
account given by a little girl whom the witness had ques-
tioned, a female, answering the description of the prisoner,
came up to the child and said she knew her ; the poor in.
fant seemed very pleased at the notice taken of her by the
prisoner, who took an opportunity to take her away un-
observed. Witness and his friends had been all over the
metropolis in search of his daughter, but could get no in-
telligence of her. He had also caused bills to be printed,
offering a reward of 51. fur the restoration of the obild.
He had given up all hopes of again seeing her, thinking
she had been disposed of unfairly, on Sunday evening, after
making still further inquiry, when, to the joy of himself
and wife, who had been, ever since the loss of their child,
in a comparative state of madness, it was restored to
them. The prisoner was then in the custody of a police
constable.

Police-officer No. 182, division M, stated, that having
strong suspicions that the prisoner had stolen the child,
he questioned her as to the possession of the child. She
said that she saw the infant wandering in Holborn, on the
3d instant, at five o'clock in the afternoon, which, upon
inquiry, be found to be untrue, as the child did not leeve
school until that hour in the afternoon. He took her to
the station-house, and she gave her address "
Gray's-
court, opposite Stepney Church," and said she was the
mother of a large family.
The father of the child said the child could give evidence
of her treatment, and all that had transpired since she had
been taken away.
Mr. CHAMBERS said the child was a very intelligent
child, but, from its age, in this country, its oath could not
be received ; but, added Mr. Chambers, ask your child if
she would like to go back with the woman.
The child clung round the father's neck, and said,
no, no.

The prisoner, in defence, said she found the child in

Holborn, and could not learn where its parents lived ;
she took it to her own house, and it hail been kept well,
and when she saw the bill about the child she immediately
took it home.

The Magistrate said it was her duty to have taken it to
the workhouse, and they would have advertised it.
The father of the child said that when she was stolen
she had on a new pair of boots, those she had on when
brought home were not worth one farthing.
The Magistrate said that, under all the circumstances of

the case, he would remand the prisoner; and desired every
inquiry to be made to ascertain if the address given by the
prisoner was correct, and if any of the neighbours {,ad seen
the child with the woman.
Daniel 0' Cannel, an Irishman, was charged with
stealing 461., the property of Elistsbeth Weston Saffell,
under the following curious circumstances.
The complainant, who was very fashionably attired, at
first seemed rather reluctant in giving her evidence. She

stated that on the last day in the old year she was walk-
ing along Bishopsgate-street, when the prisoner accosted
her. She had never seen him before; in the course of
their rambles it was arranged that they should live
together as man and wife, This was proposed by the
prisoner, who had during their conversation discoveri.a
that the complainant was entitled to a legacy which, would
be paid to her at the Bank in a few days. They forth-
with took apartments in Worship-street, Shoreditch, and
there they cohabited together. On the 15th January
last, the complainant went to the Bank and received the
legacy, amounting to 501. She gave the prisoner 151.
spending money, and laid out 21., and then deposited 461.,
in the presence of the prisoner, in a drawer in the bed-
room. On the 18th, the Monday following, on looking
into the drawer, she found the money was gone, and she
never saw the prisoner again until Saturday last, when she
met him in the Borough, and gave him into the custody
of a police-constable,
The police•oonstable proved taking the prisoner into
custody, and on searching him found a valuable silver
watch. The prisoner said the complainant gave him the
money.
Mr.shoul beC tisoa mfonorliashs
as wasto
putmuh u much surprised that
oaderth a female
should protection
of a man who was a complete stranger.
The prisoner was committed upon the capital charge.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT A SUGAR-HOUSE,
AND OAEAT Loss OF PROFIRTY.—On Sunday morning
a most destructive fire broke out in the extensive sugar-
house of Mr. C. Hot:II-muss, a refiner, in the Back-road,
St. George's in the East, which, it is to be regretted, was
productive of the loss of a considerable portion of pro-
perty, together with the total ruin of the building. The
calamity was first discovered by one of the new police,
who Was on duty near the premises, who perceived the
flames issuing from the second floor; he immediately
gave an alarm, and several engines arrived with rapidity,
and were abundantly supplied with water ; but, notwith-
standing, the entire front erection, which was about
forty feet in length, and seven stories in height, was, from
the rapidity and intensity of the flames, in a short apace
reduced to a heap of ruins. By extreme exertion, and
the morning being fortunately a dead calm, the firemen
succeeded in saving a warehouse at the rear, in which •
there was a large quantity of refined suptr, and,%o """rtt
not for this, the saciifice of property, which is af.
estimated at 15,000/. must have ben considerably-
creased. No idea can be firmed of the origin ct•`-i
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF- LORDS-(LAST
.NIGHT).

Mr: Draper, from the Treasury, Mr. Plowden, from the
East India Board, and Mr. Woolsey, from the Navy Board,
presented papers to the House.
The Earl of MALMESBURY moved for returns of
flour and grain imported, which were ordered.
The Deke of GORDON presented a petition from Ross-
shire, praying for a repeal of the Malt Tax.—Laid on the
table.

The Earl of ROSSLYN moved, according to notice,
the consideration of the Standing Order, 210, which was
altered and amended, as he desired.

The Earl of CARNARVON presented a petition from
owners and occupiers of land in the county of Wilts, pray-
ing that, as to the Poor Laws, Ireland might be placed on
the same footing as England.—Laid on the table.
The Swansea Lighting Bill and Marriage Bill were read
a third time, and passed.
The Duke of NORFOLK presented a petition from
Sheffield, praying for Free Trade to India and China.
The Duke of GLOUCESTER presented a petition from
Gloucester, to the same effect.
Lord GRANVILLE presented:a petition.from Welling-
ton, against the Truck System.
Lord SUFFIELD presented three petitions from as
many hundreds in Norfolk, praying for the repeal of the
Malt Tax. He repeated what he had said on a former
occasion, that it was highly creditable to the petitioners,
who were landowners and farmers, that they sympathized
with the poorest class, and rested the prayer of their peti-
tion chiefly on the ground of the relief which the repeal of
the tax would afford to the poor. He had, on a former
occasion, stated, that he looked to the Magistrates and
Justices of Peace in the county of Norfolk for a better ad-
ministration of the Poor Laws. The farmers had little to
do with the matter. A petition to the same effect had
been agreed to at a most respectable meeting of the
county, which he had so doubt would soon be presented;
but as he himself was obliged to go out of town on busi-
ness, he could not attend on the presenting of that pe-
tition; and be did not know in whose hands it had
been placed. He had stated that the administration of
the Pcor Laws ought to be regulated by the Statute of the
9th George 111.
The Duke of WELLINGTON observed, that he per-
fectly well recollected that the Noble Lord had stated as he
now said he had done.—Petition laid on the table.

The Earl of CARLISLE presented a petition from the
illegitimate children of Europeans by Indian women resid-
ing at Calcutta, praying for the removal of the disabilities
under which they at present laboured.
Lord ELLENBOROMII assured the Noble Earl that
he felt every disposition to comply with the prayer of the
petition, as far as the rules which had been established with
respect to the East India population would permit.
Lord HOLLAND presented a petition from Mr. Hamil-
ton Rowan and a Mr. Cockburn, Presbyterians of the
county of Down, praying for inquiry before any renewal of
the East India Charter.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented petiti(ins
from the Chamber of Commerce of Dublin; from the
borough of Ballochahaw, in Scotland; from the town of
Perth, in Scotland ; and from Haslington, in Lancashire,
against the renewal of the East India Company's Charter;
and from the last place against the permission of Suttees
in India.

Lord WHARNCLIFFE presented a petition from fisher-
men and fishcurers in the North Riding of Yorkshire,
praying for a continuance of bounties.
These petitions were laid on the table.
The Earl of RADNOR presented a petition, signed by
25,000 persons, from Birmingham, complaining of dis-
tress, and praying a repeal of the malt and beer tax. They
attributed their distress, in a great measure, to the Bill
called Mr. Peel's Bill, passed in 1819. The Noble Lord
then proceeded through a variety of detailed statements,
comparing the relative situation of the poor now and in
1817 in the town of Birmingham, and reverted to the
statements said to have been made in the other House re-
specting the condition of the poor there, asserting that
during 28 years there had not been so much distress. He
read several letters, received from manufacturers, asserting
the extreme suffering to which most of the working classes
were reduced.
The Duke of WELLINGTON said it was extremely
unfortunate that sufficient attention was not paid to the
order of that House, which forbade them alluding to-
what took place in the other House of Parliament ; nor
did it appear that even what took place in that House of
Parliament bad been accurately stated by the Noble Lord.
It was impossible for his Right Hon. Friend to know the
condition of the people except from the public returns,
and he conceived that in the statement he made he was
perfectly justified. The Noble Lord, in asserting that the
people of Birmingham had suffered more now than in
1817, and in appealing to the number receiving assistance
from the poors' rates, for the purpose of sustaining that
assertion, referred to the prices of the two periods, and
attributed the existing distress to the difference between
them. But the Noble Lord could scarcely compare the
prices of the two periods with any accuracy or justice,
when he remembered that the prices of the one were esti-
mated in a. paper, the other in a metallic currency. He
could not help again protesting against the practice of
thus, at the end of three or four weeks, or three or four
smooths, adverting to what took place in the other House,
and in former debates in that, instead of confining their
discussions to the materials regularly brought under their
consideration.
Lord HOLLAND—Since that the strict order was
that they should not make any allusion to what took place
iu the other House, or to any former debates in that, it
was a nice regulation, and he wished to see it strictly ob-
served. The Noble Duke had complained of his 'Noble
Friend as being irregular, when, if there were one question
more than another which might excuse an allusion to such
occurrence, it would be a petition upon a question of
facts affecting the condition of the people. His Noble
Friend did not state any particular date or place, and bad
be spoken of the conversation generally, as having occur-
red elsewhere, he might have escaped all imputation of
disorder. In short, he would contend, that nothing could
be more Parliamentary than was his Noble Friend.
After a few words from the Earl of RADNOR, the
petition was laid upon the table.
Earl FERRERS wished to know from the Noble Duke
opposite, if (as we understood) the Proof House at Bir-
mingham was in future to be dispensed with?
The Duke of WELLINGTON would inquire into the
matter.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE gave notice, that on
an early day he would move an Address to the Crown, re-
questing that his Majesty's Consuls in South America be
directed to furnish a statement of the exports of precious
metals, from the district& with which they were connected.