The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-12 00:00:00

UNION HALL.

INTERESTING TO SURGEONS.—John Morgan was
brought up for re-examination. The prisoner has
of late effected a great number of robberies at the re-
sidences of medical men, by pretending that he had
called upon them for advice. As it was known that he
was to be re-examined, the office was thronged with
medical men, several of whom bore witness against him.
He refused to give his address, or to tell who he was,
merely saying that some of the parties were mistaken in
his identity.
The prisoner, who is a tall thin man, with sandy
hair and whiskers, and dressed in a snuff coloured frock
coat, with velvet collar, was remanded, as severa other
charges of a similar description are likely to be made
against him.

LAMBETH- STREET.
THE GOLD DUST RORBERY.—AmeIia Moss and
Sarah Levy, the former the wife and the latter
the sister of Henry Moss, the person suspected of
having obtained possession of the two boxes contain-
ing 4,6401. worth of gold dust, by means of a forged
order, were placed at the bar before Mr. HARDWICKE
on a charge of being accessory to the robbery.
Amongst other evidence adduced was that of George
Sheen, brother to the notorious Bill Sheen (tried some
years ago at the Old Bailey, on a charge of cutting his
child's head off), who said he got his living by attend-
ing to a van and spring cart, which were let for hire by
his mother. kle recollected the prisoner, Mrs. Levy,
corning to his mother's on some day, he thought a
Tuesday afternoon, and asking if they had a truck to
let for hire. He replied that they bad not, but bad a
van and spring cart, which he could let nearly as cheap
as a truck. Mrs. Levy said she did not want a cart,
as the gentleman only wanted to move a few things that
nillt; and the reina;nder on the following morning. 1..10
tin-.!n told her that he would get a truck, which he ffiu,

and went to No. 12, New-street, as directed, about four
o'clock on the same evening, accompanied by a young
man who was now present, and on knocking at the door
they were lot in by Mrs. Levy. He was then taken to
the bedroom, where he saw the box now produced, un-
derneath the bed, corded tightly down, and both the
prisoners pointed it out as one of the articles which
he was to remove in the truck, and each told him
to be very careful about it. It was so heavy that he
could scarcely move it, and it required the joint
exertions of himself and the other young m m
to carry and put it on the truck. Its con-
tents appeared to be of a very solid substance, and did
not move or rattle, but seemed to lie clime dead. He
placed a bed, bedstead, and bedding, with two other
boxes, on the truck, and took them to Mansell-street,
Mrs. Moss following as if watching them closely. On
reaching Mansell-street they took the box in question
up stairs to the first floor, and deposited it in the back
room with the other things, and on the following day he
took the remaining part of the furniture there.
Mrs. Moss, who appeared a good deal excited and
alarmed, declared she knew nothing of the robbery,
and said her husband had always been a very close
man, and scarcely ever made her acquainted with what
he did.

Both the prisoners, at the request of Mr. Clarkson,
were remanded until this dayweek, and ordered to be
kept separate.

PHYSICAL FORCE.

(From the -Scotsman.)
There can be no better evidence of the slightness of
the influence which the Anarchists have over the mighty
public mind of this country, than the fate of the " Na-
tional Convention." We have no doubt that the pro-
jectors of that dignified assembly designed to rear up a
Parliament against Westminster Hall, and to com-
mence their career by the same course which enabled
the Jacobine clubs of Paris to triumph over the
States-General. Instead, however, of becoming the
centre of public observation—of having their pro-
ceed:ngs watched with intense interest by the popu-
lation of the metropolis—they have almost lost them-
selves in the mighty maze. The citizen sees the
" National Convention " ocsasionally mentioned in the
obscure corner of a newspaper, but he neithers knows
nor cares whether that august body holds its meetings
next door to him, or five miles off. Tue inhabitants of
Bolt-court may perhaps have noticed one or two shab-
byish-looking men stepping into a tavern, and may pro-
bably have resolved in their mind the question whether
the periodical punctuality of their appearance indicates
a fraternal love of conviviality, or whether after all they
may be, not tavern-haunters, but a collection of decent
country bodies who have come to town about a Road
Bill. The great Convention' is too insignificant to be
noticed by our Argus-eyed Press, which reports at
length the proceedings of the French Chamber of Depu-
ties. One daily paper alone gave for some time a brief
view of their proceedings, but the practice was dropped
as unprofitable. It is in vain to say that the Press have
conspired against the Conv,ntion—whatever the public
curiosity demands, the Press must produce.
We have admitted that the political horizon has a
lowering aspect, and that we would not be much sur-
prised were we to find bloodshed the result ; but we
feel convinced that, should any portion of the people
be so far deluded as to resort to the sword, their career
will be brief and their punishment sharp ; the
deluded insurrectionists being the only victims, un-
less their proceedings should be the means of recon-
ciling the rest of the community to a strong Govern-
ment. The first step to actual insurrection would be
the signal for the demagogues who have been foster-
ing it, retreating with all expedition from the danger.
The poor people would be left to their own resources,
and helpless beings they would find themselves.
Were they to rise in millions, they could accomplsih
nothing but temporary destruction—accession of num-
bers would but increase the victims. There can be
no revolution in this country, except through the
instrumentality of those who hold in their hands the
means of influencing our complicated pecuniary arrange-
rangements. The bloodless Revolution of 1688 had its
chief support in the money interest ; and the Stock
Exchange being in favour of the Hanover line, was
sufficient to baffle all the attempts and extinguish the
hopes of the Stuart?. Surplus money—that is, money
in the hands of individuals over and above what will
supply them with the necessaries of life—constitutes
the sinews of war ; but where are our insurgents to
get even the necessaries ? We shall suppose that
they assemble to the extent of many thousands on
some spot, and form an army; After having stripped
the neighbourhood of its provisions, where are they to
get food ? If they be in the country, they cannot ob-
tain it anywhere. If they go to a large town they are
in a place which lives through an artificial system of
supply, to which their presence would put a stop.
Merchants and agriculturists would cease to consign
the produce they never would be paid for, and starva-
tion would ensue. The present times are different
from those when the supply of the neighbourhood was
sufficient for the demand, and all the money was gold,
which no man refuses to take. The insurgents might
break open banks—they would find nothing but
useless paper. They might then disperse themselves
over the country ; but were the hands of justice too
feeble to suppress them, they could still do nothing but
destroy, as the Church-and-King rioters at Birmingham
did in 1791. They would find that all their depreda-
tions did not produce the transference of property from
other people's pockets to their own—that they merely
occasioned its extinction—that in the end our artificial
means of subsistence would be narrowed, and that they
would be the first and chief victims of the scarcity.

TRANS-ATLANTIC EDITORIAL

COMPLIMENTS.

We copy the following example of the polished style
of political controversial literature from the Baltimore
Sun :

" TEN DOLLARS REWARD.

" The New Orleans Sun offers a reward of ten
dollars for the ears of the editor of the Toront,Patriot,
an Upper Canada paper, who deserves a place by the
side of him of the Montreal Herald. In commenting
upon a recent correspondence which took place between
Colonel Worth, of the United States army, and Colonel
Dundas, of the British army, the editor of the Patriot
indulged in the most scurrilous language against our
Government, and concluded with the following choice
ntoreeau:—

" The long and and the short of the business is, that
the American Government and people are one large,
great big, vast, huge, monstrous, mammoth, humbug, so
flagitious and flagrant that it cannot be be mistaken by
any but born asses.'
" To this the Sun man thus responds :
" Which is the reason, we suppose, why you mistake
it. This man calls himself Thomas Dalton, and he is
known to be a recreant reformer, and abought and bribed
foul-mouthed minion of the loyalists. Every word he
utters is a loud lie and dastardly libel upon the Artie-
ricaa Government. He lives and moves in the foul slime
of slander, and earns his daily bread by basely crouching at
the foot•stool of his insolent and aristocratic masters ; and
uttering, in sneaking and obsequious obedience to their
polluted behests,the boldest and blackest mendacity in re-
gard to the American people—a people whom neither
his master nor his master's minions, with their cohorts
of mercenary soldiers, can oppress and trample to the
opprobrious earth, as they long ago would have done, if
they did not know the stuff that finished Yankeeism' is
mad• of. A mammoth humbug!' Aye, indeed, too
much a mammoth' for the greedy avarice of British
policy, Mr. Thomas Dalton—and too much a hum-
bug to be humbugged by the likes o' you' and your
masters—

Yankee Doodle is the tune,
We made the British dance it.' &c.
" Did you ever hear that before, Mr. Tommy Dal-
ton ? That's another finished Yankeeism,' and be
- to you ! I"

EXPERIMENTS ON BLASTING AT CRAIG-
LEIrtr Monday, Mr. Roberts repeated his
interesting experiments on blasting by means of galvanism
at Craigleith Quarry. Lord Greenock, Lord Robert
Kerr, and other distinguished persons, were present, and
an immense number of spectators, attracted by the novelty
of the experiments and the beauty of the day, assembled on
the occasion. Shortly after two o'clock the first experi-
ment was made on a solid mass of rock, which was shivered
into fragments by the explosion that instantaneously fol-
lowed the application of the electric fluid. The second
experiment was equally successful, and even more inte-
resting. A large quantity of gunpowder, enclosed in a
water-tight vessel, was sunk in one of the deepest parts of
the deserted quarry west of Craigleith; in a moment an
immense mass of foaming water burst forth in a conical
form; on its disappearance, the mud boiled up in large
quantities • and the pool for some time continued impe-
tuously heaving. The spectators crowded on the sur-
rounding heights, expressed their surprise and gratifica-
tion by a hearty cheer.
_

The Sunderland Herald, in order to facilitate
the extraction of paragraphs by its contemporaries, adopts
an excellent plan. Against each of the articles of intelli•
gence that is intended for transfer is set a typographical
hand, indicating the matter for which it is thought a de-
mand exists by the Metropolitan Press. We wish all the
country papers that we receive were similarly 1. handed."
FALKIRK—DEATH OF A. MlSER.—Elizabeth
Frizel has been long known here as a woman of very pe-
nurious habits, and although she was considered to be in
possession of money, it was not till after her death, which
took place last Monday, that the amount was known,
which was nearly 1,1001. sterling. The money and bills -
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were found about her bed, wrapped up in an old stocking
DIED.
&e. During her life, her appearance indicated the very On the 31st ult., at Limpfield, Surrey, Mr.
..s li ii laclteiarmd aWie3str;
extreme of want. Several years since she had executed a rine-ton, for 35 years the respected attendant on his
will, making bequests to several useful institutions, such as George 111. aged 62. f• r Ge°r
the Charity School, the Female Society, &c., with the re. On the 6th inst. at Heathfield, Sussex, 1%-al° , Artr
sidue to the poor of the parish; the document, cannot, Fuller, late of the lion. East India Company's Bengal
however, as yet be got, and many are now claiming kindred lery, aged 82. ,a .ball,
with Elizabeth, who hitherto did not know her, which will, ' On the ith inst., Duncan Weir, Esq., R.N., of Pope
probably yield some profit to men of business —Scotsman. near Lenham, Kent, aged 85.
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