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

HATTON.GARDEN.

(added Mr. Greenwood) a youth who had, like you,
been discharged from prison on the day he committed a
felony, and it was much more trifling than that with
which you are now charged, and the Government, con-
sidering him irreclaimable, ordered him to be executed,
and the sentence was carried out." The Worthy Ma-
gistrate then asked him if he wished to make any obser-
vation. He said—" None whatever."
He was fully committed for trial.
SUNDAY TRADlNG.—Certai❑ persons have for many
months past been prosecuting many respectable tobac-
conists, confectioners, &c., in Islington, for selling on
the Sabbath, and have inserted the name of Mr. Tubbs,
the beadle of that parish, in the summonses as the in-
former, against his consent. The worthy Magistrates
of this Court have set their faces against these prosecu-
tions, and invariably endeavoured to detect a loop-hole
through which the several defendants could creep out,
and evade the penalty they had rendered themselves li-
able to ; and this has caused the Churchwardens to
try to make their Worships do something that will
render them liable to a mandamus in the Court of
Queen's Bench. About twenty-five summonses have
been heard here within the last ten days, but only four
convictions have taken place, and the Magistrates have
objected to hand over a moiety of the penalty to the
informers. On Saturday Tubbs attended before Mr.
GREENWOOD, saying he had to make an application
which would be best understood if his Worship would
read a letter that he had received. He handed itto
Mr. GREENWOOD, who read it as follows :
" Vestry-room, St. Mary, Islington.
" Sir,—You will please to attend at the Police-office,
Hatton-garden, and make a formal demand for a portion
of the fines inflicted -upon Marriott, Mitchell, Parting-
ton, and Pritchard, for Sunday trading.
" Your most obedient servant,
" WILLIAM BRADGET.
" Mr. R. D. Thos. Tubbs." " Churchwarden."
After perusing it Mr. GREENWOOD said he was sur.
prised at the application, and emphatically remarked,
" It is indecent and improper." He continued, that a
Magistrate had now the power to award to an informer
so much of a penalty as he might think proper, and
he liked common informers so well that he would never
let them pocket a farthing of the penalties. He did
not mean to speak offensively to Mr. Tubbs, who he
knew was only acting according to his directions. These
also, he would venture to say, were the sentiments of his
worthy colleague, Mr. Combe.

UNION-HALL.
CLANDESTIME REMOVAL OF GOODS---THE NEW
ACT.— William Evans, the owner of a van, was charged
with the clandestine removal of goods from a house, to
evade the rent.

A policeman stated that he saw the defendant's van,
loaded with furniture, going along Vincent-street, Cam-
berwell, at five o'clock that morning ; and that not
giving a satisfactory account of the removal, he accord-
ngly took van, furniture, and all, to the greenyard.
A witness stated that the parties who employed the
defendant had clandestinely removed from the house
where they had been living, to defraud the landlord of
the rent.

The defendant said that he was employed to remove
the goods, and was wholly ignorant that the person who
employed him was in arrears of rent. He added, that
he hoped he was not to be the sufferer for another
man's dishonesty ; and that he was only in the perform-
ance of his business, that of a carrier of goods, when his
horse and vehicle were seized and carried off by the
policeman.

The MAGISTRATE said that, under the new Act, any
rerson who removed furniture, or other household goods,
from one dwelling to another, before six o'cloek in the
morning, was liable to have the horses and vehicles
seized, and taken to the nearest greenyard, even if it
was not a clandestine removal. With respect to the
removal of goods being done for a clandestine purpose,
to avoid paying the rent, then horses, vehicle, and all
might be seized at any hour of the day, and the owner
of them subjected himself so punishment as an accom-
plice in the illegal act.
As the tenant of the house from which the goods
were removed was not in attendance, the defendant's
horse and van were ordered to be kept at the greenyard.

LORD MAYOR'S DAY.

SOMEWHAT MYSTERIOUS.—A man named Smith
attended before Mr. Greenwood, under the following
circumstances :—On Thursday evening, he said, a box
containing most valuable property was removed in his
absence from his apartments, and from subsequent in-
quiries he had satisfied himself that it was in the hands
of the police superintendent of the E division, and he
wished the Magistrates' interference to cause its resto-
ration.

Mr. GREENWOOD—Does the property belong to you?
—Applicant : No ; the owner is the Hon. Mr. Stanley,
the Member of Parliament.

Mr. GREENwoon—How came it in your bands ?
Applicant—Mr. Braden, the solicitor, of Dean-street,
Soho, entrusted me with it. He was the professional
adviser of Mr. Stanley.

Mr. GREENWOOD—If that be so, Mr. Braden is
guilty of a gross breach of professional faith. He ought
not to have parted with anything entrusted to him,—...
Applicant—He expected an execution against his chat-
tels, and for security he deposited them with me.
Inspector Campbell here said he could throw some
light on the subject, and explained that on the night
named the applicant's landlady brought the box to the
station-house, and stated that she had diatrained for rent
on that and other property, and seeing the box had on
it" The Hon.
'considered
Mr. Stanley, M.
was something wrong, Andsue thought. there
it right to give in-
formation to the Pol:ice. Since then the Superintendent
had discovrked that Messrs. Bush and Masters are now
the attorneys of Mr. Stanley, and that a transfer of
papers, deeds, &c., belonging to the last named gentle-
man, had lately been made to them by Mr. Braden, and
they, as well as well ass Mr. Stanley, were greatly sur-
prised on hearing that a chest of deeds had been found
in the custody of the applicant, whose extreme anxiety
to repossess it had certainly aroused his (Mr. Camp-
bell's) suspicion that all was not right. Mr. Stanley
would be in town in a few days, and the mystery would
then, no doubt, be unravelled.
Mr. GREENWOOD (to the applicant)—The oroperty
is now in good hands, and what more can you desire ?
Applicant—To have it in my possession again.
Mr. GREENWOOD—Oh no, that must not beYeti
admit that it does not belong to you, and
the police are
therefore to keep it until Mr. Stanley arrives in town.
The applicant then left the office muttering.
IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—James llolgate, aged 15,
was charged with stealing 110 gold rings, besides other
articles of jewellery, the property of Mr. R. Plumpton,
of No. 19, Newgate-street, City.
Between six and seven o'clock in the evening, the
prisoner was met by Policeman Withers, 211 N, who,
seeing something rather bulky about his pockets,
searched him, and found the articles named. After
securing him in the station-house, he went in search
of the owner, and ascertained that it had been stolen
from the prosecutors chaise, which was left unpro-
tected for a few minutes at a tradesman's door in Is-
lington. The prisoner was liberated from the House
of Correction on the very day that he committed the;
present robbery.
Mr. GREENWOOD told the accused that it was well for
him that the Legislature had humanely altered the cri-
minal law, otherwise he (the prisoner) would most likely
have been hanged at the Old Bailey. " I remember

THE BANQUET.
The Hall was fitted out with great elegance by Mr.
Herring, the upholsterer to the Corporation. At the
east end, across the large window, was an entablature,
with the words " God save the Queen," lighted up
with gas in the most splendid manner by Mr. Lowe,
who supplied and superintended the gas apparatus with
great scientific skill, and whose labours upon the occa-
sion of the Queen's visit were so highly complimented.
Jets of gas-lights, in forms adapted to the Gothic
architecture of the hall, blazed all round the structure,
and baronial flags and banners, intermingled with shields
and helmets, and other warlike insignia, met the eye in
all parts of the building.
It appeared to us that the cross table at the eastern,
or grand end, ought to have been somewhat above the
level of the other tables of the hall, as it was rather dif-
ficult for those at the west end to see the Duke of Cam-
bridge, her Majesty's Ministers, and the rest of the
most distinguished visitors, as to rank and station, who
were seated within the platform. The objection struck
the Committee, but not in time to enable them to
remedy the defect. It was customary to place crimson
hangings round the hall, and to fill up the large rude
spaces under the window beneath which the Lord
Mayor sits with mirrors. The new improvements, exe-
cuted by Mr. Montague, the Clerk of the Works, how-
ever, rendered the introduction of these cumbrous orna-
ments quite unnecessary, and the Gothic appearance of
the building was vastly heightened by the chisel and by
the three exquisite figures which were discovered
amongst the rubbish in the vault.
We were glad to notice that the railing which sepa-
rates what are still called the hustings' tables, altheugh
the hustings were removed upon the motion of Mr. An-
derton, in the Court of Common Council, some time
ago, has been considerably lowered and painted white, so
that the eye passes over the large space without meeting
any disagreeable impediment. The vocal performers
were placed in the orchestra over the entrance door to
the hall, and the band of the Ist Life Guards attended
in full uniform, and occupied the gallery above the
steps leading to the reception-room (the Council Cham-
ber), where the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress
received the guests invted to the banquet. Four trum-
peters were stationed in different parts of the hall.
The Council Chamber was neatly fitted out, but the
crimson cloth by which the walls were covered was
rather dingy. It would be advantageous, and econo-
mical too, if the Corporation would dispense with the
hangings in this very fine apartment, as they have dis-
pensed with those in the Hall. We believe that next
year will make a change in this respect.
The lobby between the steps of the hall ard the en-
trance to the reception-room was very properly and
elegantly hung with crimson cloth, and that portion of
it‘ immediately before the doors of the latter was most
tastefully ornamented with exotics. The Committee, of
which Deputy Pewtress was the Chairman, superin-
tended the whole of the preparations with great care
and skill, and, extensive as they were, not the slightest
confusion was observed to take place.
The Lord Mayor and Sheriffs Evans and Wheelton,
the joint-masters of the feast, had, together with the
late Lord Mayor and several of the Aldermen and the
principal members of the Companies to which the Chief
Magistrate and the Sheriffs belong, assembled in the
Guildhall at eleven o'clock, where a splendid breakfast
was prepared for them, preparatory to their visit to the
Courts at Westminster, where his Lordship was to be
sworn in.
Amongst the guests of the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs
at the banquet, we observed his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge, tho Lord Chancellor, Lord Mel-
bourne, Lord Normanby, Lord Palmerston, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. G. S. Byng,
Comptroller of her Majesty's Household, Mr. Robert
Steuart, M.P., one of the Lords of the Treasury, Mr.
John Parker, M.P., one of the Lords of the Treasury,
Mr. Robert Gordon,;Seeretary to the Treasury, and the
Attorney and Solicitor-Generals ; the Brazilian, Turk-
ish, Sicilian, and Mexican Charge d'Affaires ; Lord
Dudley Stuart, Lord Kilmaine, Lord Nugent, Lord and
Lady Bloomfield, Sir Francis Burdett, Bart., and Miss
Burdett Coutts ; Mr. Harcourt, M.P., Mr. Attwood,
M.P., Mr. Pattison, M.P., Lieut.- Colonel Wood, M.P.,
Colonel heat and Baron Knesebeck (attendants upon
his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge), Sir John
Boyd, Sir William Wood, Garter King-at-Arms,Si
, Felix Booth, Sir Charles Wetherell, Sir David Wilkie,
Sir George Carroll, Sir Moses Alonteflore, the Deputy_
Governor of the Bank of England, the Deputy Chairman
of the East India Company, Mr. Ebenezer Fuller
Maitland, Mr. Raymond Barker, the Hon. C. Howard,
Private Secretary to Lord Melbourne, Mr. Charles
Grey, Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, Captain Freemantle, R. N., Lieutenant-
Colonel Williamson, Governor of the Royal Military
Asylum at Chelsea, Lieutenant-Colonel Townsend, of
the 14th Dragoons, Mr. Timothy Abraham Curtis, late
Governor of the Bank of England, Mr. John Master-
man, jun., Lieutenant Johnson, the Recorder of Lon-
don, Captain Denman, son of the Chief Justice of the
Queen's Bench, Mr. James Holford, Mr. George Palmer, jun.. Mr. Ralph Price, Treasurer of Bridewell MADRID, rl %JCT. 31•--A courier from
ri
spar-
Hospital, Mr. R. H. Pigeon, Treasurer of Christ's tero arrived last night, but nothing has transpired.
Hospital, and Mrs. Pigeon, Doctor and Mrs. Brooks, The Eco de Aragon of the 29th, received this morning.),
the Rev. Mr. Milman, Prebendary of Westminster, has a letter from Fragu of the Carlist ex-junta of Mira-
Mr. Copley Shadwell, the Hon. A. Stewart Mr. Tre-
bel and four Bishops being on their way from ower
,
Aragon to Bergs. Of the attack at VillarluenL
go Do-
main, Mr. Porrett, of the Ordnance Department, and
Lady, Mr. Stacey, of the Ordnance, and Mrs. Stacey.
thing is said, but troops from Tudela, Estella, and Lo.
grono, and heavy batteries were joining Espartero.

Concerning all seditions or insurrections like
that at" Newport, it is incumbent on all writers n d
reasoners' to distinguish between social and political
discontent. Every observer who attends to this dis-
tinction must accordingly know that the present dis.
content of the Chartists is much more social than
political. It has its causes in the very structure
of our society, and not in any temporary laws or in
the mode of administering them. The opponents
of the Chartists, both Tories and Whigs, have
continually reproached them with aiming at wrong
and unattainable objects. They have complained
of too much work and too little pay ; they have

asked for Universal Suffrage, say their opponents,
only to make an attack on property ; they have
assailed capital and capitalists, who, almost all agree,
are indispensable to society ; they complain, therefore,
of their actual position in society, and their discontent
is not caused by any one law, or by the conduct of
the Ministers, but by the very structure of society.
How far this structure is natural or necessary we
give no opinion ; we have to deal with facts, not
theories ; and the fact we assert is, that the vast
discontent which now pervades the operative classes,
and which makes them ready to follow FROST or
O'CorrNon, is by themselves ascribed to their
having too much work and too little pay. It is,
and has been from the beginning, discontent with
their position in society.
Such being the fact, when the Tories charge the
Whigs with being the authors of that discontent,
' it is our business to observe that the Whigs have
done a great deal, if not all which the Tories would
allow them to do, to remove the cause of discon-
tent. They have laboured to reduce the expendi-
ture and taxation of the country, and if the humanity
of the middle classes have forced them to an extra-
ordinary outlay for the redemption of the slaves ;
if the general ambition of those and the upper
classes have compelled them to expend large sums
for the maintenance of a huge colonial empire ; if
they have latterly, as we have asserted, followed too
closely the steps of the Tories, and so aggravated
the burdens of the poor, no person can deny that
they have been all along the advocates of reduction
of expenditure, and of the remission of taxation.
At the same time they, on principle, much
more than the Tories, have generally ad-
vocated the abolition of those restrictions
on trade, such as the Timber Duties, Corn-
laws, Sugar Protecting Duties, &c., which tend to
limit trade and keep down wages. It must also be
said to the honour of the Whigs, that they have
promoted free discussion and the political education
of the people, so that their opinions and their dis-
content have found a vent, have not been pent up
in their own bosoms, and have been made known
to their rulers. Now, on all these points the
Tories have always been opposed to the
Whigs. They have advocated increased ex-
penditure, and have resisted the reduction
of taxation ; they have opposed the abolition of
restrictions in trade, have laboured to resist the
spread of knowledge, and have done all in their
power to make the hard condition of the labouring
classes still more hard. To extreme poverty they
have added, as far as they could, extreme degrada-
tion, and have exasperated the social disadvantages
of the labouring man by political grievances.
But there is another and still more important point
on which the Whigs shine out to advantage, as com-
pared to the Tories. Through the whole of the last
year, we may say for two or three years back, up to the
present time, the Tories have reproached the Whigs
with not having struck terror into the Chartists by
great severity. It is the boast of the Whigs that they
have executed the law with all the mildness pos-
sible, and they are reproached by the Tories with
having done so. Now we beg their attention to the
following assertions of a journal, which they are
lately very much in the habit of quoting as an unan-
swerable authority. " Equally true is it," says the
Spectator, " that the law so recently enforced had
not terrified, but exasperated, the Welsh Chartists.
They vowed revenge for VINCENT, together with
the liberation of that popular victim." " Neither,
may it safely be predicted, will the slaughter in
Monmouthshire, or the sacrifices on the scaffold,
which may be at hand, quell the insurrectionary
spirit." Thus the Tory policy, so opposite to that
of the Whigs, would have increased all the difficul-
ties of the working classes, and their increased
severity would, on the Spectator's authority, have
failed to terrify the Chartists. It would have exaspe-
rated all their privations, and have provoked greater
discontent. The policy of the Tories would have
added,by their harsh mode of administering an unjust
and sanguinary code, a political grievance to a social
grievance, and would have enlisted, by cruelty and
persecution, as in former times, the sympathies of
the middle classes on the side of sedition.

It is a singular feature in the present out-break,
wholly due to the mild and merciful manner in
which the Whigs have executed the law, as com-
pared to the practice of the Tories, and the general
custom of the country previously, that not one
word is said in extenuation of the conduct of Mr.
FROST and his followers ; that not one circumstance
palliates, much less justifies it ; and that not one
newspaper writer, as far as has come under our
knowledge, has ventured to write a paragraph in
its favour. It is universally condemned as a most
wanton, unwarrantable attack by one set of men on
their peaceable fellow-citizens. These circum-
stances would certainly have been reversed had the
Tories been in power, and had carried the law into
execution in their own manner, or had the Whigs
been induced by them to adopt their principles and
practices. Not only, therefore, would the Tories have
aggravated all the evils of the social condition of the
working classes by their principles of taxation and
economy, but they would have increased their dis-
content by unjustifiable severity, and most probably
would have caused this unwarrantable local sedi-
tion to grow into a general and justifiable rebellion.

Letters and papers from Madrid, of the 2d inst.,
have been duly received. The QUEEN had con-
ferred upon the late Minister of War, General
ALAIX, the Grand Cross of CHARLES 111. Two
of his colleagues, CA RRA MOLINA and RIBERA,
were likewise presented with similar decorations.
General ALAIX was preparing to set out for Ma-
laga, to try what effect a change of air would have
upon his health. Senor ARRAzoLA was labouring
with all his might to effect a re-construction of the
Cabinet. A Madrid journal states that the follow-
ing four plans were severally under the considera-
tion of the QUEEN and her Council :-
1. The formation of a Coalition Ministry, and the dis-
so:.ution of the Cortes.
2. The composition of a Cabinet exclusively composed
of moderbdos, and the dissolution of the Cortes for the
sake of obtaining a Moderado majority.
3. The construction of s Cabinet, into which would be
admitted members of the moderate faction of the Exaltado
party, and the resumption of the Session on the 20th of
November.
4. The total change of the Cabinet, and the indefinite
prorogation of the Cortes.
Madrid was tranquil, but the people had lost all
confidence in the Government. The general im-
pression was, that the REGENT and her advisers
are endeavouring to get rid of the Constitution al-
together. If such an attempt be made, it will put
an end to Royalty in Spain.
No later accounts have been received from Es-
PARTERO'S head-quarters than those which we
published on Saturday. Premiums were offered,
according to rank, for all desertions from the Carlist
troops; and an opinion was generally entertained
that ESPARTERO was 1n treaty with some of the
Carlist chiefs commanding under CABRERA.

Lisbon Papers of the 4th instant, brought by the
Iberia steamer, which arrived at Falmouth on
Friday evening, have reached us, but we find in
them no news of interest. Thz anti-English, or
rather pro-Slavery portion of the Portuguese Press,
had made the notable discovery that England
was indebted to Portugal about a million ster-
ling for sundry rations supplied to our starving
troops during the Peninsular campaigns of the
Duke of WELLINGTON. The setting- fire
to British shipping in the Tagus, and the confisca-
tion
iof the English church and property at Lisbon,
directors
are among the pacific suggestions of these sapient
public opinion, with a view to humble
the prde o f
of us insolent id audacious islanders r'

The French Journals of Friday and Saturday,
the whole of which we have received, contain more