The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-15 00:00:00

prisoner, at the time, that she had placed a pair of
sheets before the fire to dry, but, upon his examin-
ing the room, there was nothing to induce him to
suppose that such could be the case.
Constable 72 F proved that shortly before 12 o'clock
he saw the prisoner standing at the street-door, when
she told him there was a fire in an upper room. On
going up stairs she pointed out the door to him, and on
his going into the room she suddenly turned back, say-
ing she would go down stairs and procure other assist-
ance; but he prevented her, as there was no necessity
for any more help. On examining the furniture he
found a chair on fire, and the prisoner pointed out a
chest of drawers which was much scorched and burning
on the top part. Witness instantly procured water and
extinguished the fire ; and on examining the articles he
found that all the drawers were in a smoulderinc, state
except the bottom one, and his opinion was that the
fire must have been communicated from without.
The prisoner said she had lighted a fire at half-past
S o'clock for the purpose of airing some sheets, and
being sent on an errand she was informed by Miss Finch,
a lady who lodges in the house, that there was a burn-
ing smell up stairs, but she could not tell how the fire
had been communicated to the chest of drawers.

Mr. Wcstrnacott proved that he had a temporary
lodging at Mr. Stammers' house, and being out at a
dinner until half-past one o'clock, he found on his return
that a policeman had possession of his room. He
thought it impossible that the drawers could have caught
fire from the sheets on the chair, admitting that they
had taken fire, as there was about nine feet distance
between them, and neither the mantel piece nor the
space between the drawers and the chair, where there
was a wash-bandstand, had been in the slightest degree
injured. There was a quantity of tinder burning in the
lower drawer, and it was a circumstance attended with
no small degree of suspicion, that every article he had
deposited in the drawers was missing, nor was there
a vestige of them to be found, and although he attached
very little value to the articles lost, the other part
of the charge was of a very serious nature.
The prisoner appeared to hesitate in accounting for
her absence during two hours from the house, and she
was ordered to be remanded for a week.

Samuel Beckford, who was committed for trial on
Wednesday last, on two distinct charges of stealing coats
from the Auction Rooms of Messrs. Storr and Debenham,
King-street, Covent-garden, was again placed at the
bar, charged with stealing a gold watch from the Auc-
tion Rooms of Mr. Jones, in Leicester-street, Leicester-
square.
Mr. Judkin appeared for the prisoner. _

Mr. Henry Jones, son to the prosecutor, said that a
gold watch had been stolen some time back off a tilt)
in the Auction Room, and from information he had re-
ceived, he thought it necessary to have the prisoner ex-
amined on suspicion of having stolen it.
Mr. Archbutt, a pawnbroker, of Westminster-road,
Lambeth, identified the prisoner as having about six
weeks back pawned a gold watch with him, but not being
aware what the nature of the case he was summoned upon
might be, he did not bring the watch with him. The
article answered to the description given of it by the
prosecutor.

The prisoner reserved his defence, and he was or-
dered to be remanded until Saturday next.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
The appointment as a Magistrate of Frost, the leader
of the Newport Chartists, is seized upon as a legitimate
cause of accusation, or rather of vituperation against
Ministers. " Who appointed John Frost a ma-
gistrate ?" is repeated by every Tory Journal, and
responded to by ever Tory par,isan. This inqnir)
alight be answered by a similar reflection up- n
communities for the improper conduct of indivi-
duals who, when they had no reason to suspect their
principles or practices, had been placed by them in
offices of honour or of trust. The same mode of
inquiry might be adopted with equal reason, and for
the same sinister design, with reference to any dep
trt-
ment of the public service, in which any one of
officers had committed some gross and flagrant crime.
Every one will at once see that imputations of neglect
or connivance on the part of Government, under
such circumstances, are unreasonable and unjust,
and can only flow from the virulence of party. It so
happens, however, that in the case of John Frost
the vindication of the Government is complete. The
Town Council of Newport recommended Mr. Frost
as a fit person to be placed in the commission of the
peace for the borough. Complaints of impropriety
of conduct in some parts of his previous history
being made against Mr. Frost, Lord John Russell
refused to adopt the recommendation of the To w n
Council until the circumstances referred to were
properly investigated, and their truth or falsehood
ascertained. That the inquiry might be properly con-
ducted, and its result such. as would authorise Lord J.
Russell to act with confidence upon it, the investigation
was entrusted to the Lord Lieutenant of the county :vho
recommended his Lordship to comply with the recommen-
dation of the Town Council, by placing Mr. Frost in the
commission for the Throu,,,,rh. When Mr. Frost <as
subsequently dismissed io,r his connection with ,Lie
Chartists, and his improper mode of addressing Lord
John Russell in the cm-respondence his Lordship
held with him on the ;subject, a petition nume-
rously signed was forwardied to Lord John Russell
strongly urging his restoration. To this application
his Lordship very properly refused to listen. What
more Lord John Russell c ould have done in the affair
which has furnished the Tt my press with matter of ac-
cusation, those who urge the imputation of neglect or
connivance will possibly cc ndescend to state. At all
events their not doing so, Rill manifest that faction,
rather than truth and hen esty, has supplied the motive
of attack.

(From th el Courier.)
The arrival out of Sir C harles Metcalfe and his con-
sequent inauguration as Governor-General of the in]
portant island of Jamaica , of which intelligence was
received yesterday by the Delight packet, may, we
hope, be hailed as the con itnencement of a new, more
pacific, and more prospero' as era in the history of that
suffering colony. It is ti me, if the preservation of a
British interest in that colony be worth the care of those
who at present rule over ut that the system upon which
it's administration has been conducted for several years
past should be radically char I, ged ; that the House of As-
sembly, if it's existence be, as we presume, a constitu-
tional right, should no bongo r be regarded and treated
as a mere court for the r(!cg istration of the decrees of
the Colonial Office ; and t h at the body of island pro-
prietary should cease to be 'persecuted by official under-
lings and non-recognised authorities as a proscribed
race. The party domino xit and all-powerful under
the late Governor, he Li 'e not been slow with
insidious attempts and fluttering appeals to entrap
the new Governor in their toils, but we ob-
serve with satisfaction, that without any unneces-
sarily offensive repulse hi ; has been cautious to avoid
compromise to any opinio nor any course of action. It
may therefore be assumed i that he is carefully measuring
his ground, so that his step may be sure, and his future
position resolute and dig :nified ; that he will no more
permit the ascendancy one and the undue humi-
liation of another part y, but deal out equal justice
to all. And, above all, ,we trust that be will suffer
the interposition of n( ) unacknowledged and ex-
traneous influence fron r this side of the water
betwixt himself and the subjects delegated to his Go-
vernment by the Sovereip ;n whose high commission he
bears. He brings to the task, happily, that experience
in the art of governing of which his immediate predeces-
sors have unfortunately b een so deficent.
(From tl le Standard.)
It is stated by the Min isterial Journals that a special
commission for the trial of the Monmouthshire rebels,
will be issued forthwith. About 12 persons already
stand committed on a charge of High Treason, as
participators in what Lord Normanby mildly cha-
racterises as " the outrage." We hope that the public
attention will be steadily fixed upon the proceedings
under this Commission 1, as otherwise there is little
reason to hope that the ends of justice and truth will
be satisfied. We trust that we shall not be suspected
of any wish for sang, ainary sacrifices, but we are
convinced that the safety of the country, and
the well-being of the In ambler classes, demand a strict
and searching investigat ion of the origin and progress
of the late insurrection. , We shall not be sorry if
the utmost latitude of r nercy is extended to the rebels,
after conviction, but r ye must insist upon it that
mercy shall not be shown to rebellion by the
concealment of its sprin gs and instruments, as will be
the case if every prism ter committed for treason shall
not be brought before a jury, and confronted with all
the evidence that can be fairly adduced against him.
The country has a right to demand the most com-
plete account of atr ansaction that has caused the
destruction of so mar iy of our fellow-subjects. We
think it necessary to I give this early warning, because
we have heard vahispt :rs of a proposition to Frost and
others to banish then 'selves, as the price of pardon,
and because we knc ,w that all such compromises
as that suggested i n this proposition are of the
worst consequence. Even, if Frost be guilty, we do
not want to have hi, al hanged ; on the contrary, we
sincerely hope that no more blood will be shed in this
disgraceful rebellion ; but if Frost be guilty, a full ex-
posure of his guilt, an; Ic f the guilt of his accomplices,
and of the means emp, 'oy ed by them to seduce the un-
happy thousands led in, !o crime by their arts and exam-
ple, is absolutely necessary to protect the giddy populace
from similar seduction hen 'after.
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i:JETTERS FOR NE` V YORK.-The following
notice ha° been posted at the General Post Office :
'° Ship Letter' Office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, Nov. 13,
1839—A ship leti?r-bag wi 11 be made up for New York,
to be forwarded by the Li verpool steamship. Letters
in time at this office till sew
n o'clock on Friday evening
next, the 15th instant."
A storm in the far west is thus graphically de-
scribed :—‘• The skv was ; black and dreary ; murky
and ominous clouds drove furiously from the west, an:l
in fifteen minutes it rained like everlasting hoky."___.
N. 0. Picayune.