The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-17 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

HATTON- GARDEN.
UNCERTAIN STATE OF THE HACKNEY-COACH LAW.
COACH STAND IN UPPER SEYMOUR-STREET
Since the opening of the Birmingham Railway the cab-
men and coach-drivers have extended the stand in Lower
Seymour-street into Upper Seymour-street, to the great
annoyance of the inhabitants, who have in vain endee
voured to get rid of the nuisance.
Yesterday, Robert _Wilber, driver 294 of the hackney
carriage 880, appeared at this office to answer the an:
plaint of the Commissioners of St. Pancras for dil"'
obeying the provisions of the local Act, which punishes
with a fine of 40s. any driver of a hackney carriage
creating an obstruction or annoyance.
Mr. Clarkson having stated the case on behalf of the
complainants,
Mr. Combe said that it must first be proved that the
estabiishing a hackney-coach stand was an annoya°°o
In this case it was not pretended it was an obstruction,
and it was not the stand which was an annoyance, but
the persons who assembled there.

Mr. Clarkson—Can a coach stand then be formed ill
any district ?

Mr. Combe—lf we find a licensed waterman at.
tending there our hands are stopped. The best course
for you to pursue would be to summon the waterman
under the Hackney Carriages Act, to know by what
right he plies in Upper Seymour-street. The whole
law relating to hackney.coach stands is in a most unsa-
tisfactory state.
Defendant—You will never find a waterman in UP.
per Seymour-street.
Mr. COMBE—Then you can summon the
driver
plying at a stand where there is no licensed water •
The present information must be dismissed. forn
ni

We understand that Sir David Wilkie, during
his late northern tour spent some time at Arbuthnott
House, where he was engaged in taking a full-length
picture of Viscount Arbuthnott. This work of art,
which has been subscribed for by the landed proprietors
and tenantry of the county of Kincardine, of which his
Lordship is Lord Lieutenant, will adorn the Cool
Hall at Stonehaven.—Edinburgh Advertiser.
THEROMANCE OF PRIVATE LIFE, BY MISS
BURNEY.—By " itself alone" the name of Burney must
prove a passport to a work of fiction. Amongst the
novel reading world who is there to whom, for more
than half a century past, the name of Burney is
not _
fa-
miliar?—and to whom are not the recollections of
" Evelina," " Cecilia," &c. fresh and vivid as though
they were only the productions of yesterday. Such
was the extraordinary success of the earlier performances
of the Miss Burney, afterwards Madame D'ArblaY,
that they procured for her the especial notice and fa-
your of Royalty, and a subscription of three thousand
guineas for her " Camilla." Those were, indeed,
golden days for novel writers! There is no doubt but
that genius is hereditary in many families, and the race
of Burney is amongst the favoured. " The Romance
of Private Life" will be hailed with delight by all novel
readers, not alone on account of its great merit as 3
first-rate work of fiction, but for its opportune appear'
ante at this dull season of the literary year.
GEORGE CRUIESHANK'S ILLUSTRATIONS
To " JACK SHEPPARD."—Mr. Ainsworth's popuiar nevi
romance, " Jack Sheppard," has, in addition to the por-
trait of its author, twenty-seven plates by George Cruill;
shank, in illustration of the following striking portions 01
the story :—The Adoption of Little Jack Sheppard---
The Discovery in the Lott—. The Murder on the
Thames—The Great Storm—The Name on the Beam
—The soi-disant Noblemen—The Quarrel—The Exa-
mination at the Old Mansion House—The Robbery 10
Willesden Church —The Night Cellar—Jack's Escape
from Willesden Cage—Mother and Son—Blueski:
and Jack in Mr. Wood's Bed Room—The Eil"P
from Clerkenwell Prison—Audacity of Jack Slier
pard—The Maniac in Old Bedlam—The Escape 1
from the Condemned Hold—Jack's Portrait taken DI
Sir James Thornhill, introducing Gay and Hogart
Murder of Sir Rowland Trenchard by Jonathan Wile
—Jack Tricking Shotbolt the Gaoler—Jack's Escape
from Newgate exhibited in three plates (ten designe)__
Seizure of Jack Sheppard at his Mother's Grav!on
Jack's Irons knocked off in Newgate—The Procession
to Tyburn—The Last Scene.
DESERT'
LADY TRAVELLING ACROSS THE b
The following is written from Cairo, I f.ith March,
brag
lady on her passage overland to England :—" Ncit
oe
could be easier, nor more comfortable, than our pase7.,
across the desert ; we made it in four days on the
kies, by stages of twenty miles. and found three or .
filet
small tents at each stage. The weather was inter :0
cold during the whole of the first three days, and we
were glad of cloaks, blankets, &c. It seemed like
e.,
pic-nic the first three days, and I found it more agree'
able to cross the desert, than I ever found travelling to
India. As to any difficulties, it is quite a farce o
think of them."

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BIRTHS.
On the 7th inst., in Guildford-street, Russell-square, 31'5'
John Blogg, of a daughter. h R
On the 13th inst., in Park-road, Stockwell, 'sirs. John
Dobson, of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 16th inst., at St. Mary's, Newington, the Bey.'
George Weight, 8.A., of Magdalen-hall, Oxford, Curate of
St. George-the-Martyr, Southwark, to Marianne, of
daughter of the late Rev. Henry Longueville Munsel, Rector
of Cosgrove, Northamptonshire, and grand-daughter of the late
General Manse', of Coggrove-hall, and of the late Admiral Sir
Robert Moorsom, K. C. B.
On the 12th inst., at. Brighton, Henry, eldest son of gOn
hter
Alexander, Esq., of Cork-street, to Isabella Maria, dau
of the late George Brummell, Esq.
On the 15th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, do
Right Hon. Thomas Frankland Lewis, to Marianne, only sur—
viving daughter of the late John Ashton, Esq.

DIED.
On the loth inst., in the 53d year of his age, Frimi Grego°
Colmere, Esq., of Moor End, Charlton Kings, in the county
of Gloucester.
On the 4th ult., at Dominica, the Hon. Alexander Robin"
ten, Member of her Majesty's Council of that Island, aged 54.
On the 11th ult., at St. JsTo de Cuba, of the yellow fever,
General Don Joaquin Eseari,,, Governor and Commander-in-
Chief of the Eastern Province of the Island of Cuba. late
On the 11th inst., at Pimlico, Amelia, daughter of tits
Isaac Charrorier, Esq., of the Resource estate Dominica.

Loudon. Printed awl Published by AIURDO YOUN.U; 0,
No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Oilier, No 112, Strand, 10 im
county of Middlesex.—Thuradav, October 17, 18.39.