The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-04 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY.

These Sessions commenced this morning, before R.
HEDGER, Esq., and a full bench of Magistrates.
The calendar contains a list of fifty-nine prisoners, thirty-
eight of whom are charged with felonies, and the remainder
with misdemeanours. The trials that took place this morn-
inn-, were devoid of public interest.

The Sir Edward Banks steamer has been fmzen
near Rotterdam, which gave rise to a silly
rumour that she
had been lost at sea.
There was a large concourse of skaters yesterday in
the Regent's Park, where the ice was tolerably good, not-
withstanding the thaw. The Serpentine did not bear.
The list of members of the Skating Club who
assembled in the Regent's Park on Saturday did not include
the name of Mr. Wallace, as he was not present upon that
day, but he has been there since, and although not quite so
active as he was some five and thirty winters past, was
nevertheless observed to move with good effect.
Yesterday morning William Kingham, one of the
land officers of the Thames Police, who has been attached
to that establishment as messenger and office-keeper for the
last six years, died in the London Hospital from the effects
of a severe wound in the throat, which he inflicted with a
razor in the Waterman's Arms public-house, adjoining the
Thames Police-office, on Saturday last.
A letter from the frontiers of Poland, in a Frankfort
paper, announces that several arrests had taken place at
Warsaw, but not for any political reasons. The persons
arrested are young men, and are accused of rioting at
taverns. The Emperor of Austria is recovering, wad drove
out before the 17th, for the first time since his ill'aess.
It is not, we believe, generally known, that during
Lard Melbourne's visit this shooting season at Mr. Coke's,
of Holkham, his Lordship very narrowly tscaped being se-
riously injured, whilst out one day with a. shooting party, on
Mhis gun, part of the shot accidentally came in contact with
Lorr.dCo Akiee'lsbogurornuen,dss.fooAt, nbeupthe
fortunatelyvvof&r. Coke, having fired
r the charge was
nearly spent.

TOLERATION I—The toleration of the spoiler to-
wards the despoiled ; continuing just as long as the latter
does not attempt to withhold the booty !—There is an
affinity of insolence in that word,—toleration. Men pro-
fessing to be Christians, indeed, tolerating the worship of
God by a fellow Christian, and contenting themselves with
merely taking, for their own use, a portion of his goods and
chattels ! There is toleration for gambling-houses all over
the metropolis ; for tea-gardens and open shops on the Sal..)-
bath ; for gin-palaces in all directions ; for the thousands
and tens of thousands of prostitutes who nightly defile. our
streets and public ways with obscenity ; and the dir,senter
has also toleration, and ought, forsooth, to be well con-
tented to pay for it.—Manchester Guardian.
Three days have elapsed, and no London post has
arrived! and yet, tell it not in Gath, proclaim it not in the
streets of Askelon, we are alive, and the world seems to go
on much after its usual fashion. Tbs is all " passing
strange." There is, in this, as the newspaper writers say,
a wonderful coincidence of circumstances. The Tory
m " snowed up" during a whole Session of
ajoty'
Parliament,ri''a
vas
yet the Party still claims an existence.
The world around us is snowed up—London is lost, Edin-
burghet we are mighty well in health,
andabiosunnodtinwgitihninsphiraiitla
Cariisie JournaL
EMIGRATION FROM CAITHNESS.---Since the
conclusion of the fishing season, 600 or 800 persons have
left this neighbourhood. They are mechanics, labourers,
&c., and their wives and children. The greater part have
gone in search of employment to the ports and manufac-
turing towns south, while some have left for America.--
John o'Groat Journal.
On Monday information was received at the various
police-offices, that between the hours of 1 and half-past 5
o'clock on Monday morning the house of Mr. Booth, the
Cross Keys, Broad-street, Lambeth, was robbed of a cash-
box, containing a 501. Bank of England note, a 40/. Bank
of England note, and between 40 and 50 sovereigns. The
cash-box was afterwards found in the dusthole, quite empty.
On Tuesday, an awful instance of the uncertain
tenure of life occurred at Bradford. About noon on that
day, Mr. Willett was suddenly attacked by indisposition,
and before five o'clock in the afternoon his mortal existence
had terminated. On the day previous, in a neighbour's
shop, on seeing the funeral of young Mr. Holmes pass, the
deceased remarked, how true is that passage of Scripture,
" in the midst of life we are in death."--Halifax Express.
So general has become the custom of holding what
are called " Social Tea Meetings" of the Teachers and
friends of Sunday Schools in Sheffield, that every evening
during this week the various schools in Sheffield, belonging
both to Churches and Chapels, have respectively had their
annual social assemblages.
No accounts have as yet reached us as to the fate
of the six unfortunate whalers which are bound up in the
ice of the Polar seas. It is to be hoped, however, that
some prosperous gale will yet disentangle them from these
dreary regions of eternal snow, and waft them to the shore
of a southern and more genial clime. No less than two
hundred and forty lives are thus exposed to the rigours of
an Arctic winter.--Glasgow Herald.
Twelve quarts of very fine new potatoes were
brought into Carlisle market on Saturday last. They were
grown in the open air.
On Sunday se'nnight a chimney of a house, at
Southend, fell upon a bed, in which a Miss Bewett, l 9
years of age, was sleeping, and crushed her to death.—
Essex Herald.

The Bradford Reform Association, at their last
meeting, determined to divide the borough into districts,
and to institute a general canvass, to ascertain the real
strength of the Reform party, and the opinion of the elec-
tors on the two proposed candidates, E. C. Lister and W.
Busfield, Esqrs. The delegates have waited upon a great
number of the electors, and the utmost satisfaction has
been expressed at the result.—Halifax Express.
Ciftc AsslA.—We learn from Tiflis that the Tcher-
kes, after a Council held at Soutcha, immediately attacked
all the military positions of the Russians, who retired ...kit
great loss into the small fort of Souhan-Kale, and into the
entrenched camp of Souchouk-Kale. The Trans-Cauca-
sian Journal of Tiflis says, that " in consequence of the
severity of the season, the outposts had withdrawn into
the fortified places ;" but it is not the less true that the
country of the eastern and southern Caucasus is now cleared
of the Russians, and that the Tcherkes can now arm and
prepare themselves against the Czar without molestation.—
German Paper.
CHRISTMAS.—Now hoary-headed winter, like a
shivering pauper, with a freeze coat and a hurricane in
hand, walks abroad.—Ladies, young and old, appear like
the Hartz mountains, covered with furs.--The grateful
perfume of roasting pippins fills the frosty air, some singing
and others hissing, as is the wont in most musical meet-
ings.—The fields are glistening with snow, awaiting, like
sheep, the coming of spring, to shear them of their fleecy
covering.—Now, little charity boys, in leather very-smalls,
run about presenting their pieces to the admirers of calli-
graphy ; and Cockneys leave their counters, to present
their pieces at little birds.--The fishmonger's lad leaves his.
basket upon the banks of the Serpentine, and exerts 1,13
muscles in propelling a solitary skate.—Eaves-droppir,g is
at an end ! the drip being congelated to a fringe of icicles.
—George Barnwell is performed at the theatre':, to teach
apprentices that, when they are in want of money, they
must go to their " uncle's."—Cooks are up early, and plums
suffer the martyrdom of St. Stephen ; and all show their
politics by cutting up—pee/.—Gre,engrocers become bar-
barous; for after cruelly cropping hollies for the holydays,
and misletoes, they—take their leaves.—Snow-balls and
fancy-balls are to be met with in every quarter of the town.
i
—Young bucks and old horses appear n rough coats ; and
the coaches are so laden with turkeys and game, that they
seem as if they had all been through the Poultry, and run
foul of each other.—Urchins from school come driven home.
huddled together, like so many rams in a market-cart, with
their horns sticking out on both sides.—Country dances are
all the vogue, from the ball-room down to the twelve-foot-
square parlour ; and, like sailors In a storm, its " all hands
to the pumps" with the shoemakers.---Farewell, old Christ-
mas! May thy temples ever bo crowned with a snow
wreath! May all English hearts be long delighted with
Christmas gambols ! " Christmas gambles!" exclaimed
my old maternal aunt, as her ear caught the concluding
words of my apostrophe ; " I am very sorry to hear that r.
—The Humaricl4—.Arew ihronth.