The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-08 00:00:00

HATTON-GARDEN.

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF RAPE AGAINST A
PUBLICAN.—George Cant, a very respectable looking,
middle aged man, was placed at the bar, charged with
violating the person of Jane Bollum.
Mr. Pelham appeared as solicitor for the prosecution,
and called the prosecutrix, an interesting looking young
girl, who stated that she entered the service of the pri-
soner, who keeps the Windsor Castle Tavern, in High
Holborn, on Monday last, as barmaid. That on Thurs-
day morning last the prisoner made advances to her,
which she repulsed, and threatened to tell her mistress,
' the prisoner's wife. That all she had had to drink
during the day was a small glass of half-and-half with
her dinner. That at tea time the prisoner handed her
a cup of tea, and shortly afterwards she was taken
That she fainted, and when she recovered she found her-
self lying on her bed, but with her clothes on, and the
prisoner by her side, taking indecent liberties with her.
That he placed his hand on her mouth, to prevent her
screaming, when she again fainted, and that on
recovery she found herself alone, and had rea-
son to suppose that she had been violated. At this
time it was daylight, and she saw the prisoner
coming iuto her room, when she said—" You villain, I
shall tell your wife." That she went down stairs, and
knocked at his wife's door, who refused to hear what
she had to say, accusing her of drunkenness, and desir-
ing her to quit the house. But the prisoner told her to
go down stairs, and he would speak to her. That she
immediately left the house and went to her brothers,
and told his wife what had occurred, and that she was
then examined by a surgeon.
Her testimony was corroborated by that of her sister-
in-law and of Mr. Quickett, the surgeon, who had exa-
mined her.

Mr. Williams, who appeared for the defence, said he
had evidence to prove that the statements of the prose-
cutrix were utterly untrue.
Mr. COMBS said he thought he could not go into that
evidence as that would be trying the case. There was a
prima facie case to send to a jury. The evidence of
the witnesses had not been shaken by cross-examination,
and there did not appear any thin.. against the character
of the prosecutrix. However, he would consider the
subject, and would remand the prisoner until Wednesday.
The prisoner, who declared his entire innocence, was
then removed in custody.
INDECENT ASSAULT.—In the early part of the morn-
.

ing, a young man, of very forbidding appearance, but
who was genteelly dressed, and who stated his name to
be Edward Moon, was committed for trial on a charge
of indecently assaulting a boy, ten years of age. The
details of the case were most disgusting, and wholly unfit
for publication. It was stated in the office that the
friends of the prisoner are most respectable, and reside
in the neighbourhood.

SPECTACLES UPON A NEW CONSTRUCTION
FOR IMPERFECT SIGIIT.—The numerous and very ill
effects which have daily come under the notice of the
Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, Opticians and Aurists to
the Royal Family, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly,
and 96, Cheepside, from the use of improper Spec-
tildes, and being also incorrectly adapted to vision
by inexperienced persons, have tended to injure the
sight to an alarming extent. Messrs. Solomons, after
thirty years' extensive practice and experience,
have invented spectacle lenses, which will be found to
surpass anything of the kind yet laid before the public ,
they not only preserve the sight, but, immediately they
•
are placed before the imperfect vision, either by day or
candlelight, the sight becomes cool and pleasant, and is
at once brought back to its natural and original state,
and the most minute particle is seen with exact distinct-
ness. The Messrs. Solomons' Voice Conductor, for
deaf persons, is not the least perceptible, and gives'im-
mediate relief. These new Inventions are patronised by
the Royal Family, and have the sanction and unqualified
approbation of the principal members of the medical pro-
fession. Testimonials from persons highest dis-
tinction of the
are for inspection, who have had their sight
most seriously injured, and who have derived the greatest
advantage from the Messrs. Solomons' new invention.—
No agents nor travellers are employed

more. At first it is descried like a low and irregular
white cliff--and by degrees, as the distance diminishes?
the cliff fades away into lofty buildings, surmounted by
gilded domes, and environed by tall and stately minarets.
First, the Mosque of St. Sophia becomes distinguished
from the mass by its broad and massive-looking dowse
standing conspicuous from all others, like a giant, over-
topping in size the ordinary crowd of men. Then ano-
ther and another mosque separates itself, until the con-
fused mass is arranged into the semblance of a great
and rich city ; the public buildings of which look down
in patronizing grandeur on the smaller private houses,
while in many cases, both are only to be seen here and
there peeping forth from the ever-verdant trees which
) surround them on all sides, and make the city appear
to the eye more like a huge garden, studded with
summer seats, than the large and overgrown capital of
a mighty empire. This mass of marble, wood, clay, and
verdure, seems at first as if it was but one city ; but
by degrees the Bosphorus opens, and divides one part
into Asia and another into Europe : still, as a nearer
approach is made, the scene again changes, and the
waters of " The Golden Horn" divide the European
part into two.
At this spot, equidistant from both continents, the
traveller seems as if he were in an immense basin, sur-
rounded with buildings on all sides. To the north is the
Bosphorus, studded with palaces and villages on both
banks, until the Asiatic and European shores seem to
meet. To the east stands the village of Scutari, in Asia,
with its gilded and whitewashed barracks gleaming
in the sun, and reflecting its brilliancy upon the less-
sized, but still gaudy buildings which it contains. To
the west is " The Golden Horn," an arm of the Bos-
phorus, which runs up on the European side, stretching
as far as the eye can reach, bearing upon its bosom an
immense variety of ships at anchor, and thousands of
little boats skimming across it in every direction. On
the south bank of this right arm of the Bosphorus
stands Stamboul, commencing with the low irregular
gilded palace of the Seraglio, and stretching on with
palace, mosque, dome, minaret, and tower, unti: the view
is lost. On the opposite side it is again attracted by the
less stately buildings of Galata, Pere, and Tophana, Co-
vering the hill from the summit to the water's edge.
Thus far, and thus far only, does " The City of the
Sultan" hold forth a pleasing and grand appearance to
the wondering eye of the stranger. The moment his
foot touches the low dirty wharfs and quays at Galata,
which is opposite what is strictly the Turkish city, the
scene is, as if by magic, suddenly changed. He finds
nothing but dirty streets, filled with ruins and squalid-
looking buildings ; the shops are without doors and win-
dows for the most part. He naturally thinks that these
are but some of the back lanes, and walks on, in hopes
of finding some thoroughfare not absolutely disgusting
from filth ; but he only meets greater squalor, the longer
he walks. Few of the streets are more than twenty feet
wide, many of them not twelve, and even some not more
than six, four, or three. Windows may be found jut-
ting out corner-wise from one side to the other, so that
in many cases it would be easy for opposite neighbours
to open each others' windows with their hands. Not a
great many of the streets can boast of any raised way for
foot passengers, and even those that can do so, yield them
up to carts, carriages, horses, and other cattle, at the
caprice of the beast or his driver. These streets, or rather
narrow lanes, are composed of irregular whin and soft
stones, put together without any order or design. As
the stranger walks along, he will find some attention
necessary to avoid trampling on the many homeless dogs
he finds lying everywhere on the street and trottoirs,
and so very lazy that nothing but a smart stroke with a
stick will make them get up. His patience will also be
pretty well tried with the barking and snarling of such
as may chance to be on their legs, and who know a
Frank stranger as well as a London sharper knows a
country bumpkin just come to town. They are, how-
ever, easily put to flight. It will also be found neces-
sary to keep a 100k-out, both before and behind, to see
if there is no one coming galloping along, regardless of
the streets, or those that are on them ; or mayhap
.a
group of eight, ten, or twelve porters, with a hogshead
of sugar, or a pipe of wine, trudging along at an ordi-
nary trot, who are generally good enough to shout out
when it is too late to get out of their way ; or a string
of asses, mules, pack-horses, or camels, who, with their
loads stretching completely across the thoroughfare,
threaten to knock down any one that does not take
refuge in a shop or cross lane. The carts and carriages,
especially those drawn by bullocks or buffaloes, are
worthy also of notice, as the horns of these brutes often
occupy the entire breadth of the street, and a smart rap
with a stick is necessary, in order to make room for a
passenger.

As by degrees Galata (the Wapping of Constantino-
ple), has been traversed, and the stranger begins to as-
cend to Pera, he will find the shelving streets more
clean, but more difficult to walk upon, as the rain run-
ning down has contrived to make an irregular rut for
itself. In Pera, there are fewer shops, but these are
of a better kind, many of them having doors and win-
dows, which, although not exactly like those of Western
Europe, yet look well, after viewing the squalid affairs
in Galata. The streets here are more passable, the
people better dressed, and the stoppages from carts,
horses, &e.. of rarer occurrence ; but still the imagina-
tion wanders in vain for anything to solace and satisfy
it, after the hopes raised from an outside view of the city.
After a day of weary toil, through lanes and streets,
the best of which are worse than the worst in any other
capital in Europe, the stranger will probably console
himself with the idea, that in Stamboul or the Turkish
part of the town, on the opposite side of the port or
" Horn," be may yet find streets worthy of the ideas
which still haunt his excited imagination. •
In Stamboul there are one or two large spaces of
ground, used to exercise the troops upon. There is also
a parade, where the fashionables of the Turkish Empire
promenade on fine days ; and which during the Rama-
zan, in November and December, is crowded with all
the elite of the place, including even the Sultan him-
self ; but, excepting these, there is not one good street
or square in it all. Some of them are better than any
o❑ the Frank side ; but some of them are infinitely
worse, as a good shower of rain is certain to plough up
three or four streets in a few minutes, leaving ruts
extending for a quarter of a mile, and varying from six
inches deep to three feet, into which the unfortunate
traveller will fall, unless great care is taken in passing
them. The shops here are more varied than in the
Frank quarter ; but still they are at the best but mise-
rable. One street is filled with dealers in old iron; another
with shoemakers ; a third with carpenters, pipe-makers,
trunk-makers, marble-cutters, fruit merchants, Ste.-Sec.
These shops being little square boxes, varying from
six to nine feet in front, generally quite open, where the
artisan sits working at his calling, or smoking his pipe,
the never-wanting appendage of a workman in Constan-
tinople. Many fires occur in consequence, as workmen
may be seen beating the red-hot ashes out of the bowl
among the wooden chips at their feet ; and the wooden
building, if once on fire, would burn at least to the
ground, taking with it, in all probability, as companions
of its fall, all the others in the street. The reader will
have observed in the newspapers an account of a dread-
ful fire which occurred recently in Pera, but which, it
seems, is to be productive of some benefit, as the Go-
vernment are intending to cause improvements to be
made.

Amidst all this filth, squalor, and irregularity, many
splendid public buildings are to be seen; but there is
not one good range of private buildings, nor one good
street-front in the whole city ; and the stranger will
return home across the Golden Horn to Pera, wearied
and tired by the horrid nature of the footing which he
must tread, and most probably will sxclaiin that Con-
stantinople, with all its grandeur, is the, most uncom-
fortable-looking place in the world.
The only situation to have a gsod view of this varied
place, and its many suburbs, is either from the " Tower
of Galata," on the Frank side, or the " Seraskier's
Tower," in Stamboul. Let the traveller take a view
from the balcony of one of these, and he will find his
toil of ascent well repaid, as his eye will be feasted by
one of the most varied sights the world can boast of.
From that elevation nothing of the dirt and filth of the
streets can be seen. The eye can roam from one place
to another, without wearying the feet. Industry seems
to have vied with nature, in the production of all that
is wonderful in landscape, in water, and in buildings.
Europe and Asia, maw-land and islands, seas and rivers,
palaces and mosques, parade-grounds and burial-fields ;
ships-of-war and tiny boats—all lie below the feet,
presenting to the eye a more superb view perhaps than
the imagination can create in her most fantastic wan-
derings.—London• Saturday Journal.

AGED GOOSE.—A
AN noose on a farm in
Scotland, about ten years since, (7,,f the clearly ascertained
age of eighty-one years, healthy and vigorous,
killed whilst sitting over her
eggs, by a
sow.t was
was
supposed she might have lived still many years, and
her fecundity appeared to be permanent. Other geese
have been proved to reach the age of 70 years. It is
a well authenticated fact, that in 1.8'4 there was a
goose living in the possession of Mr. Howson, of Glen-
ham, near Market Kasen, Lincolnshire, which was then
upwards of a century old. It had been throughout
that term in the constant possession of Mr. Hewson's
forefathers and himself, and on quitting his farm he
would not suffer it to be sold with his other stock, but
made a present of it to the in-coming tenant, that the
venerable fowl might terminate its career on the spot
where its useful life had spent such a length of days.—,
The Poultry Yard.
THE HACKNEY CARRIAGE ACT.—At the
close of a charge made on Friday at Marlborough-
street against a hackney-coachman for furious driving,
Inspector Beresford said that the greatest difficulty
existed under the new Hackney Carriage Act in secur-
ing drivers who had ?committed any offence. They were
constantly in the habit of transferring their badges from
one to another in order to avoid detection. It was also
the custom of the proprietors to change their plates
from one vehicle to another, and so avoid punishment.

LONDON
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1839.

We understand that a very select party of the
thick and thin supporters of the present mana-
gers (?) of the estate of CHAMBERS and SON,
the late Bankers, in Bond-street, was held this
morning at the house of Mr. GROOM, 3, Hen-
rietta-street, Cavendish-square. After reading the
invitation to the favoured few, which we subjoin,
we pity that man's mental vision who does not at
once perceive that the real design of the private
conclave is, if possible, to strangle the inconvenient
resolution of the public meetinL, of the creditors
at the Opera House, on Friday, the 27th Septem-
ber last. At that meeting it was resolved
to appoint three additional assignees, thereby
to infuse new life and vigour into the tor-
pid mass of incompetence which, under the name
of Assignees and Solicitors to the estate of
CHAMBERS and SON, has prevented one single
sixpence of the enormous sum of upwards of two
hundred thousand pounds, which the Official As-
sign.ee, in reply to Mr. LESLIE, declared, at the
last meeting at the Opera House, they had re-
ceived, from reaching the hands of the unfortunate
creditors of this estate :
"''6, Carey-street, Linco:n's Inn, Oct. 3.
O,CHAMBERS AND SON.
" Sir,—Tba" RE
ai
you on the subject of nees are desirous of conferring with
the appointment of colleagues in
their trust, in pursuance of the resolution of the late
meeting of the creditors
that fitt is a matter of serious con-
cern to the creditors a persons should be selected,
and measures to secure
y c(133,V of such importance
ought to be delibersaeteol
affairs
thirLoered. The assignees
have lajoured in the
unexampled diffi-
Vlcarndithey feel they
diffi-
culties and the gravest responsibility;u
little
(more( creditors for their
have a fair claim uponthe principal
toand irksome
service, towards rendering as
as possihie their future duties. We thuerut.s.
instructed us
trust we
may depend upon your attendance at a meetingre of prin-
cipal creditors, which the assignees have
to convene, to be held at the house of Mr,
of the assignees), No. 3, Henrietta-street, Cavendish-
square, square, on Tuesday next, the Sth inst., at eleven o'Cl'osiell:
very precisely.
" We are, Sir, your most obedient servants,
" MAYHEW, JOHNSTON, and MAYHEw.,,
We seriously caution the creditors of this shame.
fully mismanaged property not to be entrapped b,
\
proceedings emanating from any private conclave
whatever. Public meetings are the proper sources
from whence should originate the necessary regula-
tions for conducting, beneficially to the creditors,
the great mass of property still unrealized on this
bankruptcy, however inconvenient those meetings
may prove to the few. We upon this, as upon all
other occasions, prefer the interest of the many.