The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, PRI;)AY, OCTOBER 27, 1837.

DOCTOR COOKE.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

We published ott yesterilar stitrie of this Doctor's sayings
at the BelfaSt carousal, which should not be permitted to
fall still-born from the press. Doctor O'Sullivan (doctors
arc as plenty as blackberries, now-a-days) made sonic tig.y
admissions about the chances of Protestantism falling
asunder for want of tbt attractive ilikitaiS; and Dr. Cooke
tookhith soundly in task iH edh'i,eqiienee. OSullivan is of
the itackstin species. The Church of Christ, according to
him, is able to endure btttneiier ittstrim Of perk4ulion ;
the thirty:4dt* tirtieleii d ill P4e the iieaks of belie-
vers att failh, and the word—all sufficient for eveq thing
else—can hold out but five years more of " great die-
couragement." Thirty, at icasti of t/hti ttt,tl first
of the felthl hak'e already disappeared before the withering
fat.q ii Ueonm:ll being wadi; a Magistrate: But the pro-
phet of evil received a ret)riiol froth Liad4
of hiself., his 'cited, nisu his audience, and
m lweeming the
crisis in which the Church now finds itself. Talk, says the
Presbyterian divine, of five years, we are toyb eviongli to
hold out fifty-`4 aye, nbw selfish, after all, is hu-
man SyMpatliy—the Doctor forgot that be lost not the aid
of tithes, and consequently could ill estimate the position in
which the Rector of Killyilian—the pions IMAM' of the
wreckers found himself placed. But the Doctor—the re,.
presentative of " all the Churches in Ireland" which are
not Papistical..--dld not offer an opinion without a reason ;
and what think you it was, gentle reader?—" To feed the
piing Protestants well 1" 'Ti6 not Protestantism—'tis
not in Conservatism, said he ; " bring the young Pro-
testants to your table," and they will increase and multiply,
like the strange beggars at Rome,
" altos Sportula fccit." •
To the present hoer the true secret of making Protestants
has escaped the inquiry of Christian reformers. Reforma-
tions of all descriptions have been tried, and have failed—
reformation by rewarding adultery and parricide has failed
—reformation by the torture has failed—reformation through
bastardy and the charter school has failed—reformation by
confication has failed—reformation by means of stinted soups
has failed—reformation by slander has failed ; but the truth
has at length dawned on Dr. Cooke—the only road to re-
formation is through the belly. Talk, indeed, of faith—of
morals—of the inherent grace of religion !—thc Protestant
religion sits enthroned in a full stomach. " Fill them with
good things," and send them not empty away, says the
Doctor, and you may knock them about like foot-balls—
like the plant of the field, the more they are trampled on
the more they will flourish. The Doctor is, no doubt, a
learned man, otherwise he never would have discovered the
phenomenon of a Protestant plant thriving the more luxuri-
antly from being trampled on.—Freeman's Journal.

COtiliT OF COMMON PLEAg, O. 10.
WALKER V. LEE.
In this case, which Was not concluded yesterday when
we went to press, the Jury returned a verdict for the
plaintiff for the full amount, 20/. •

CENTIUL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

no work."

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Phoihthi Smith,' a dandied young man in a bearskin sur-
tout,
was indicted for stealing a C'C7:l.,t)! and appendages, the
property of W. H. Baynton, value 101.
Mrs; Porter keeps a lodging-house at St. John's Wood.
A few days nt,p tiel3oner came to her house, and apart-
ttent3 were shown him. The watch ttzta on the drawers
%then he went into a room where he was left alottf, for a
short tithe, titid it was missed as soon as he was gone.—
Verdict, Guilty.
The prisoner said his family were 114;44 fe..finttble, but
they hating repudiated him he was brought to great ilis4
tress, and committed tilt act with the view of getting out
of the country. He had assumed a name not his own to
shield his family from diSgrace.—Sentence deferral,
aged 38, a labouring man, was indicted
for having, on the lath iiist.f unlnwfully assaulted Maria
Williams, and feloniously and maliciously cut and wounded
her in divers parts of the body. In a second cotititi the
prisoner was Indicted for an intention to do the prosecutris
some grievous bodily hartil. -
The prosccutrix was the wife of E. Williams; and resided
at No. 3, James-place, Stepney. On the evening of the day
laid in the indictment she was sitting at her tea, and hear-
ing a noise she went to the door, when she saw the prisoner
holding a little boy by both arms, and ill-using him. The
little boy, in reply to a question from the prosecutrix, said
that he had been doing nothing ' • upon which the prisoner
said he would "do for him." The prosecutrix then told
the prisoner that he had better send for the parents of
the little boy ; upon which he rushed towards her, knocked
her down, jumped upon her body, and continued to kick
and beat her as she lay on the ground. Her clothes were
torn to pieces ; and on being brought home, she vomited
a quantity of blood, and found that she had been wounded
internally. She had been confined to her bed from the
time of the assault until Saturday last, and she was still
suffering from the effects of the attack.
Hannah Durant, who witnessed the attack, corroborated
the above testimony in every particular. The Jury found
the prisoner guilty of an aggravated assault.
The prisoner was again indicted for assaulting, wounding,
and cutting William Cranford, a police constable, with in-
tent to maim and disable him. The Jury found the pri-
soner guilty of the whole charge.

NEW COURT.
CHILD STEALING.—Ann Frances Bennett, aged 24, was
indicted for feloniously, and by fraud, taking away an in-
fant child, named Catherine Gilson, with intent to defraud
William and Mary Ann, its parents, of the possession of
the said child. Another count charged the intent to be to
steal its apparel.
The Jury, after hearing evidence, pronounced her guilty.
The COMMON SERJEANT said that, for the sake of mo-
thers, who by conduct like the prisoner's were driven
almost to distraction, the Court would make an example of
her, in order to deter others. The Sentence of the Court
was that she be transported beyond the seas for the term of
seven years.
The prisoner (with great nonchalance)—You had better
make it ten.
Edwin Gooberty, a youth respectably connected, was
indicted for stealing two Bank notes, value 501. each, a 5/.
note, and 201. I6s. in gold and silver coin, the property of
Mr. Frederick Stockden, his employer.—Guilty.
The prisoner was again indicted for that he, durine, the
last year of his late Majesty's reign, was convicted of felony.
Evidence was adduced to sustain the indictment, by which
it appeared that in the early part of the present year he
was convicted in that Court, and before the same Judge,
of embezzling 201., the property of a former employer,
whereupon he was sentenced to only three months' impri-
sonment and hard labour.
John Madden was indicted for stealing a Bible and a
shirt, the property of Peter Spratt ; a Bible and a shirt,
the property of Benjamin Peck ; and a handkerchief and
other articles, the property of Martin Hayward. The
Jury found the prisoner Guilty.

At a petty sessions held on Thursday week at Tub.
hercurry, in the county of Sligo, sit men, four of them of
the name of Black, one of the name of Carr, another of the
name of Shaw, were committed to Sligo gaol, charged on
the clearest evidence with having on the 21st of August
broken into the house of a man named M'Hugh, and sworn
him not to work for Protestants. All these men are them-
selves Protestants and Orangemen. The majority of the
Committing Magistrates were Protestants. Mr. Little,
the Stipendiary Magistrate, in his address to the prisoners,
alluded to an expression which fell from one of th(!in—that
" he did not think Scully would have turned traitor"—as
proof that they were engaged in a plot. Scully was a wit-
ness against them ; and there seems no doubt that they had
combined, or had been hired, to commit the outrage, in order
to throw the odium on the Catholics.—Limerick Star.

Mary Smith and Eleanor Connor, who had been
members of the Protestant Cbuircb, made public profession
of their faith as Catholics, on Sunday last, at the chapel of
St. Nicholas, Galway, before the Right Rev. Dr. Browno,
and the congregation.—Limerick Star.
MUTINY AND MASSACRE.—Mr. Davis, first
officer of the bark kabala, just arrived at New Bedford,
brings a report that about twenty days prior to their depar-
turefrom New Zealand a shocking event occurred on board
the ship Ploughboy, Captain Brown, of this port—the par-
ticulars of which are thus related. In order to complete
the crew of the ship three natives of New Zealand were
employed, Ivho, having taken offence at the treatment re-
ceived from some of the officers, revenged themselves by
murdering two of the hands, and barbarously wounding a
third. These atrocities were
.committed at night. The
natives, being forward, first beheaded a seaman who was on
the watch ; a boat-steerer, in the gangway, hearing a noise,
and going forward to ascertain the cause, received a terrible
cut from a hatchet driven deeply into the shoulder ; the
man at the wheel was next attacked, pierced through the
body with a spear and fell dead through the skylight. Those
below being thus aroused, hastened on deck, and found that
the murderers had cut adrift all the boats, in one of which
they were endeavouring to escape. One of the natives was
shot by those on the ship's deck, but the others got off.
Next morning three of the boats were picked up, together
with the dead body of the native. The name of one of the
murdered seamen is stated to he John Coles, of Nantucket,
the other was a native of Denmark, name not given—nor is
that of the wounded man reported.—Nantucket Enquifer.

The Dutch have a proverb, which says—" Thefts
never enrich ; alms never impoverish ; and prayers hinder

A rather ludicrous incident occurred at our theatre
on Wednesday last during the performance of a piece called
The Man with a General Face. A tall inebriated coun-
tryman happened to be leaning over the orchestra while
Mr. Gill was enacting the character of an old gentleman
(his master), and when Mr. l3elfour, who played the suitor
to the old gentleman's daughter, was introduced to his sup-
posed father-in-law, Gill, who was, according to the plot,
in a state of intoxication, proposed to run, jump, fight, or
play the young gentleman a game at skittles " for a quart,"
the countryman, forgetting the illusion of the scene, roared
out " I'll have you!" Shortly after this he turned round
and asked a gentleman near him which was the road to
London ? when the person he addressed leeringly pointed
towards the stage and said " Straight forward." The coun-
tryman then deliberately clambered over the orchestra,
which was then very nearly untenanted, and got to the
right-hand side of the stage. The performers stared ; the
house was convulsed with laughter ; the countryman kept
bowing to the performers, and his back to the audience,
when some ono at the side-wings suddenly forced him to
make his exit before he could make his debut to his won-
dering auditors.—Bury Herald.
Tuesday an alarming accident happened to the se-
cond daughter of the Rev. Mr. Hanwell, Wesleyan super-
intendent of Lincoln. The young lady is of industrious
habits, and had got up early to busy herself in the house-
hold affairs, when, by stooping too near a copper stove, the
lower part of her garments took fire and enveloped her in
flames. She endeavoured to extinguish the fire, but failing
in this, she ran screaming up three pair of stairs and threw
herself on a bed, when her mother, with great presence of
mind, rolled a blanket round her and stifled the fire. Mr.
Harvey was immediately called in, and found her so dread-
fully burnt that doubts were for a day or two entertained of
her recovery. She is now out of danger.

O❑ Tuesday afternoon a couple of brutes, seated in
a dog-cart drawn by three dogs, drove along the New-road,
as fast as the animals could go, yet the fellows kept shout-
ing to the dogs and lashing them in a furious manner. On
reaching the corner of Euston-square they turned round
the corner so suddenly that the cart, coming in contact with
a post, was overturned, and the dog-drivers pitched headlong
on the ground with such force; that the arm of one of them
was broken, and the other severely bruised. The dogs made
good their escape, their masters being too badly hurt to
follow them.

HIGHWAY ATTACK.--011 Saturday night, as
Mr. D. Bush, baker, of Wanstead, Essex, was passing
through Stratford, near the four mile-stone, he was .at-
tacked by a man named Patrick Hughes, residing in Well-
street, who struck him a violent blow on the right temple,
supposed with a flint stone, and fractured his. skull,
whereby Mr. Bush's lift) i at present hopeless. Hughes
has since absconded.