The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-16 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

There were only four Mint prosecutions on the Calendar,
which were disposed of this morning before the Common
Sergeant.
Thomas E, le was indicted for embezzling the sum of
Is. 6d., the property of his master, a miller.—Not Guilty.
John Lear, the commander-in-chief and legal adviser of
the Strand " prigs," was indicted for stealing a silk hand-
kerchief from the person of Henry Augustus Thompson,
Esq., Barrister-at-Law.
The prosecutor was passing near Savoy-street about 11
o'clock at night, when the handkerchief was dexterously
abstracted. Ho followed the prisoner up Burleigh-street,
and never lost sight of him till he was taken into custody.
The prosecutor's handkerchief and a number of others,
tied one over another round his neck, were found upon him.
The prisoner cross-examined the witnesses with great
ingenuity, but was found Guilty.
Henry Wilson, who had been previously in the House of
Correction, was indicted for stealing an anvil, the property
of Richard Ellis.--Guilty.
The Learned SERGEANT intimated to the prisoner that
be should certainly be sent out of the country.

HAYMARKET THEATRE.—A new piece by Buck-
stone, under the startling title of Love and Murder, was
produced last night. The situations of this piece are droll
enough, and the plot is very novel and ingenious, but why
such an ultra-broad farce is called a comedy (as it is in the
bills), and why the characters, whose dialogue is in the style
of the very middling-class of life, are represented as moving
in the first circles, are mysteries not easily to be unravelled.
In short, the piece was an entertaining extravaganza, and,
being supported by the very first actors, who all played in
their very best manner, could hardly fail of meeting with
the decided success which was its lot.

This is the anniversary of the massacre at Man-
chester. Sixteen years have now elapsed since the com-
mission of this Tory outrage—since a deadly onslaught was
made by Tory orders on a population peacefully assembled
to petition for their rights. It is an instructive momento,
and one that ought frequently to be held forth to remind the
people what atrocities may be expected in the uncontronled
saturnalia of Tory power.

RAILROADS IN FRANCE.—AII experimental trip
has been made on the 30th of July, on the new rail-road
from Paris to St. Germain, the only one yet constructed in
the neighbourhood of the French metropolis. The public
opening of the railroad has been fixed for the 15th of this
month. The projected railroad to Versailles is considered
likely to be a far more profitable speculation, since the daily
number of passengers from Versailles to Paris has latterly
increased from fourteen or fifteen hundred to eleven or
twelve thousand. The French, however, are far behind
their Belgian neighbours in this particular species of enter-
prise.

WEST-RIDING RIOT—The inquest which sat on
the body of Mr. Carter returned a verdict of manslaughter
against some person or persons unknown, during the riot on
Monday, the 31st of July. The result of the inquest upon
the body of Mr. Carter, who lost his life in the affray at
the West Riding nomination, has not surprised us, so far as
the verdict is concerned ; but the refusal to hear the evi-
dence of the Yellows, after that of the Blues had been so
patiently listened to, has not a little astonished us. We shall
not, however, offer any comment, at present ; but merely
observe that this refusal not only destroys the force of all
the Tory evidence against the Liberals, as to the riot, but
it does more, it manifests a fear lest that evidence should
be overthrown by the statements of the other side.—Halifax
Express.
AN ANECDOTE ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE ABSO-
LUTt POWER POSSESSED BY AFRICAN KINGS.—King Gun
had accidentally received a wound in the arm from one of
two boys who were playing with cutlasses. This boy threw
his cutlass at the other. Gun happened to be passing the
corner of the street at tho same time, and received the
point of the cutlass in his arm. The boy was immediately
seized, and begged and entreated mercy to no purpose. A
council was held, and the boy was condemned to die. His
hands were tied behind him, and his throat being delibe-
rately cut, he was left to bleed to death.—Laird's Narra-
tive of the last Expedition into central Africa.
Two new steam-boats, the Commerce de Lille, of
100, and the Marechal de Villars, of 120 horse power, will
commence running regularly between the ports of Dunkirk
and Havre from the 20th of next month. The passage
will be made in from 15 to 18 hours.
The ship New York having met with injury at sea,
put into Ramsgate for repair last week. She had ISO
steerage passengers, who, in consequence of the delay, had
consumed their provisions. Mr. Montefiore, the High
Sheriff elect, and his amiable lady took a deep interest in
alleviating their necessities. On Saturday this estimable
couple entertained nearly 40 of the passengers, who were
of the Jewish persuasion ; shared their choicest wines, and
waited on their guests themselves, instead of suffering their
servants to do so. A fund is being raised to provide all ne-
cessaries for the voyage,