The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-29 00:00:00

POLICE.-(THI DAY.)

BOMMEET.
A tall young Man of gentlemanly exterior was brought
ty before Mr. ithnsatuLL this morning, charged with at-
fempting to force his way into the presence of the King
at Drury.lane theatre yesterday evening.
Serjeant M'Sweeny of the police stated, that he and a
Party etaisa,Men were on duty at the Royal entrance
about nine'on Thursday evening, when the prisoner and
'other young man forced their way through the line of
men, and were making their way boldly to the stairs lead.
lug to the Royal box, when witness said " Gently, gen-
tlemen, where are you going ?" The defendant replied
in an authoritative tone, " Where are we going, Sir, what
is that to you ; we are seeking his Majesty, and have
business with hims—look at this, Sir," and at the cams
time he produced a letter addressed " To the King's Most
Excellent Majesty,"and endorsed in the corner" Treasury."
"This is rather an unseasonable hour for transacting busi-
Ben with hie Majesty," said the witness---" he is very agree-
ably engaged up stairs, and I should presume would consi-
der your intrusion, even if you have business, rather ill-
timed." " Don't talk to me, sirrah," replied the defen-
dant, " I must see his Majesty, and deliver this letter in
person; and who will dare to obstruct me in transacting
the King's business?" Witness said, " Really, Sir, 1 must
take the liberty of doing so, for the King hay just taken
(toffee, and it occurs to me—l repeat it with great defer-
etce......that you have taken too much wine, and I think you
Ltd better postpone the business if possible until to-mor-
row." Still, however, he insisted on being admitted to
the King's presence, and at length went se far as to threaten
instant destruction to any one who opposed him. Wit-
nese, upon this, took him into custody, and his friend ran
Way- When he got to the station -house his conduct was
most violent, and he swore he would annihilate the man
Om had dared to obstruct his way to the presence of his
King,
Mr. Thomai produced the letter to Mr. Minshull ; it
contained an application to his Majesty for a place under
Government, and was couched in a wild rambling man-
He subscribed himself, " Your Majesty's gracious,
tumble servant, T. p, D. Ross-6, Serampore-place,
Hammersmith."
• The defendant in answer to the charge this morning,
Pleaded that he Was intoxicated, and could account for his
conduct in no other way.
Two gentlemen came forward and said they knew the
defendant's family to be highly respectable.
Mr. Mtnanuu. said his conduct was so extraordinary
that he must make him give bail ; and he was ordered to
find bail accordingly.

ALARMING STATE OF KENT.

(From the -Kent Herald of yesterday.)
We fear it cannot he denied that a considerable portion
of the peasantry of Kent is in a state of reckless insubordi
cation, Outrages on property of the most alarming de-
scription are manifestly on the increase. Bodies of men
almost nightly, and of late even by
slay, assemble and pro-
teed from one farm house to another, destroying in the
Scott open and daring manner the agricultural machinery
LI,. the premises ;—and, far worse, the secret incendiary
Plies hit, dreadful Occupation with a frequency and sue-
'Asa that must, if continued, ere long desolate the whole
khntri. Alarm naturally prevails all around. No man
o Imsa!ettes and dwells amid property of this &scrip-
."' cart la.f hist head on his pillow without the frightful
teticipation of being roused to witness its destruction,
lthe ed endeavour to rescue his dwelling and his family from
flames.
Since our last publication several serious fires have oc-
tarred, and demolition of thrashing machines been corn-
Stilted in every district of East Kent. No measures of
precaution among the owners of such property have
tyailed. Leniency and severity seem alike employed in
tarns Many of the depredators have been committed to
prison' and the military are constantlyengaged in attempted
Prevention or pursuit—with what effect the augmentation
Sl outrage and calamity bast shews. On the other band
ell unexpectedly lenient sentence passed by the Magistrates
As some convicted rioters et the Sessions last week seems
tul qually to have failed in impressing favourably the minds
those asseciated in crime. Not that we are surprised
!A this, for these unhappy men feel that leniency will not
better their condition nor can severity make it worse.
The fact is that the labouring classes have been long
Larne down, oppressed in every way by their superiors--
T by the political system upheld by their superiors.
hey have been gradually thrust down, and trampled on,
despised, driven to starvation, misery, and despair. The
lendeney of the whole social arrangement in England fur
tnanY years hue been to fester and protect the great
Properties at the expense of the poor and industrious. The
l'AvSsure has worked through the middle orders, and de-
beeatled at last with its full weighs upon the lowest.
The labourer has been literally ground down to thievery
4„,int. Every law, every tax, every consequent change in
Scanners, hest been. prejudiehl to him. 'The consolidation
of estates, the destruction of small firms, the enclosure
of common laude, the heavy impositions i
n thencec,es-,
4"1".
of
the
temptations
and c"o,
tyranny
the accursed Game Laws, the f
vexatious
Arereitteil by the rural magistracy—the ever-memorable
Unpaid," the canting, hypocritic interference with his
re remaining pleasures under the pretence of tcach-
lnit him religion and morality, form part of the list of
" unfavourable circumstances" (as Mr. Owen
The
*"tild say) which have made him what he is. v
Ll?nal Which once attached the agricultural labourer to
.41 employer, has long, too, been revered. The farmer
°lss once looked up to by his servants as their friend,
4i,nd almost their father. They formed as it were a part
i
he. hilt family, generally seated not the same hoard and
All g
to a degree of the comforts of a common home.
.."this has passed away. An insuperable barrier has
been raised, between the " parlour" and the " kitchen."—
The servant has not been
recognised any more than as a
lahntAring animist on the estate. The roaster has been a
gentleman, and the servant sunk into a brutal slave.
prom theme causes has the agricultural population
bren suffering, until at lest human nature refused any
rther endurance without bitter complaint, and that
flailings—for who, of our wealthy and powerful Statesmen
Save beetled the cry of the poor, who have bettered their
e°ruliti°l) by self-sacrifice ?—they sought, not redress, for
"f thet by long suffering they have become hopeless, but
Mind indiscriminating revenge upon society itself. They
"An ready to exclaim with Pierre—
" The world Is not our friend, moor the world's law."
That there is little direct political feeling among the
rd
etrators of the present excessea we are convinced,Pie even of personal vindictiveness, since the objects
"their attacks are almost promiscuously taken. Smile
unpopular and arbitrary individuals have indeed been
*kited; hut others of mild and liberal character have
list, NCApeti. It seems, in fact, a war of poverty against
property, of destitution against possesaion. 'The poor feel
Inni
7* they are nut permitted ,to enjoy, and they are deter-
.d that the rich shall not. This is the natural feeling
shtna Ignorant coerse-miniltal, nnd ill-treated men, and it
to have spread with', and taken deep root. If so,
Tre is no remedy in forcible or in conciliatory treatment,
1. 'them change of the whole system. Absolute despera-
-441 ran neither be cajoled nor
We fervently trust then that no harsh, despotic, and
ti gainer
iagnitiary means' will be attempted, convinced that it
,‘
ul aggravate rather than remedy the existent
le that can be done by the occupiers of exposed property
however exercise a constant and complete watch of prevention,
inconvenient. Aud let the great proprietors
imetliately offer poor/employment on their estates to all
the
labourers in their respective neighbourhoods—howevert
IPensive- This inconvenience—this expense will in the
"11. he found the least. Thus a calm may be preserved
Legislature ;re enacting thole great reductions,
a alterations, and reforms, without which this country must
-"only femme a scene which the imagination shudders to
contemplate.

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LimEnlcK,Ocr.2s.—Three revenue cruisers
ore tying in the river, laden with 8,000 stand of arms,
Pipe end canister
shot, ammunition, kc. from the Ord-
nee starer here, for the Ordnance stores at Cove.
At a meeting of the rate•payers of St. An-
drew, Holborn, held in the Board-room of the work-house
Yesterday evening, it was agreed to call another meeting
to consider the heat means of getting rid of the Assessed
'Taxes and the New Police.
liirritirtgliam is to be the common centre of
!et feWer than five different railways—viz., one from Lon-
"; one from Liverpool, one from Hull, one .from Bristol,
Littll,4e (rots'
rty rady
Wolverhampton. Canal prope_ a
171111 to feel the effects of these various projects ,al
asd
,ail'elinatiort to purchase shares has become very general
"It" in the Worcester and Birmingham Canal,
14 JOY Were at 106/. are now offered at SO/. Winch
Major.Getteral the Hon. P. STUART has
Ihsteto t'„rn4finm the Continent, and resumed the command of
"reel in gcotland, after his temporary absence on the
ii.elaneholy duty of attending the widow and children s f
1416 lainented brother, Lord BLANTYRT, to England, whof e
'l4otnitnit we understand, are on the passage to his seat in
elllit. Pre
ur
terttor
gh Observery to their being interred in the family
....-Zdinb.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE-(THIS MORNING.)

At a few minutes past three o'clock this morning an
brining fire broke out in the extensive premises of Mr.
J. J. Smith, oilman, No. 39, Great Queen-street,
Lincoln's-inn-fields (late churchwarden of the parish of
St. Clement Danes), who has also another warehouse in
Clare-street, Clare-market. A few minutes before three,
Airs. Smith who was very unwell, and consequently had
been restless during the night, got out of bed, and was
alarmed by a strong smell of fire, and upon opening the
bed•roorn door the smoke was overpowering, and a
crackling noise below could be distinctly heard. Mrs.
Smith shrieked violently which alarmed her husband, and
four children, the latter of whom were in bed in the ad-
joining room, when Mr. Smith ran down stairs in his
shirt, and discovered that the warehouse behind where he
kept his oils and combustible matter was in flames, and
spreading rapidly in every direction ; he ran up again im-
mediately and warned his family of their impending dan-
ger, and Mrs. Smith, her children, and the servants,
effected a difficult escape down stairs, and took refuge at
a neighbour's opposite. Policeman Reynolds, of the F.
division, who was on duty at the time, alarmed the neigh-
bourhood, and was particularly active in endeavouring to
save whatever part of the property he could, and in doing
so he fell, and would have fallen a sacrifice to the flaotes
had he not peen providentially saved by another policeman
named Samwell, the well-known wrestler, who saw him
fall, and caught hold of the collar of his coat, by which his lift,
was preserved, but he was terribly burnt. The flames before
the arrival of any engine had taken possesssion of the whole
building, and burnt with awful velocity. By about a
quarter past three the Protector arrived, followed by the
Sun, West of England, Alliance, and others, and having
obtained a plentiful supply of water, the elements were
opposed to each other with great energy ; but the water
had but little or no effect in checking the flames, which
bad now gained possessio❑ of the adjoining premises,
No. 37, belonging to Mr. Callam—the institution for
curing deformity—but before they caught tire most of the
household property had been removed into the street.—
The flames continued to rage with great impetuosity till
they were partially smothered, occasioned by the roof of
Mr. Smith's premises falling with a heavy crash. At this
moment all further danger bad ceased (at least front Mr.
Smith's house), hot the fire raged furiously in the bonseof
Mr. Callam, and therefore the firemen were occupied
wholly in playing upon the flames, which they at length
subdued at about six o'clock, leaving Mr. Smith's premises
and those of Mr. Callarn a perfect wreck. There is no-
thing known at present as to the origin of the fire. Mr.
Smith is insured ; but whether his insurance (in the Sun)
will cover his loss we could not learn ; every vestige of
property was consumed. Mr. Gallant is insured in the
Protector. There were two other fires during the night:
one at Stamford-bill, and another in the London-road,
which consumed some workshops belonging to Mr. Turner,
cabinet-maker, opposite the Philanthropic Institution.