The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-22 00:00:00

HATTON- GA RDEN.

Tuesday night last Barnard, No. 110 G, observed
two notorious women in Brook-street, Holborn,
inveig-
ling a young countryfied looking girl, with a bundle, who
had evidently been drinking, to an infamous house in
Fox-court, Gray's-inn-lane., and on perceiving him watch-
ing them they made off with all possible speed, leaving
the girl behind them. Barnard instantly took the girl
to the station-house, where, on being brought to her
senses, she gave her name Mary Ann Jones, and said
she was a servant at No. 4, Wilmington-square, and she
had been out for a holiday. She met with the women
who accosted her, and gave her something to drink
which stupified her, and she was quite lost, until she
found herself in the station-house. Barnard had no
doubt but the object of the women was robbery and se-
duction.

The poor girl was cautioned and discharged, when she
was accompanied by the officer to her situation, appa-
rently grateful.

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

EXPENSIVE AMUSEMENT. —A fashionably-dressed
young man, named Glassbroke, of No. 13, Princes's-
sheet, Cavendish-square, was charged by the police with
having knocked ca several doors in the Haymarket at
four o'clock in the morning.
Mr. CHAMBERS—WeII, sir, what did you mean by
such conduct? Defendant—Oh, I only knocked at
the doors for my amusement.
Mr. CHAMBERS—Very pretty amusement indeed to
awaken
.people at such an hour, and cause an alarm
which might produce serious consequences. Pray what
is your station in life? Defendant—l'm nothing.
Mr. CHAMBERS—It's high time you were something
then. Have you been brought up to any business ?
Defendant—Oh, no ; I'm a gentleman ! I havn't any
occupation at present.
Mr. CHAMBERS—Except that of knocking at peo-
ple's doors. Well, I can tell you the penalty for this
kind of amusement is now very heavy, and, as the Act
came into operation a day or two ago, you will have the
pleasure o It the first person convicted under it As
you are a gentleman I shall put the full penalty of 40s.
upon you.

The money was paid and the defendant went away.

THE CHARTER.

TO THE REV. MR. STEPHENS.

REVEREND SlR,—When first you took upon you the
arduous and highly responsible duty of pastor to the
people, we were given to understand that your services
would be devoted wholly for their good, and to " bring
comfort to their cottages," which an exclusive and
despotic Legislation had (by infamous laws and excessive
taxation) rendered cheerless and desolate ; that you
would expose and overthrow tyranny in every shape ;
that neither the State nor landowner should any longer
oppress the poor, and rob them of their already too
scanty earnings ; that the factories should be abolished,
and its incarcerated victims relieved from the gripe of
fiends in human shape ; and " though last, not least,"
you vowed that you would never cease agitating until
that accursed Poor-law Act was erased from the Sta-
tute Book. All this you promised, as we believed,
faitl.fully, and which as a noble and political preacher,
you was bound to perform, not by word, but in duty, be-
cause we held both you and your arguments in sacred
veneration, and expected that as a man of most do.
quent and powerful words, so we should find you one
ready to perform the most godlike deeds. But in this,
our fondest expectation, we have been sadly disap-
pointed—not by anything emanating from our enemies
(which can give us no concern), but from sentences
pronounced by yourself, in which you call upon the
people to abandon one of the noblest objects that
liberty and justice could plead for their Charter, and
for which the honest and industrious classes of the
three countries have, for the last eight or nine months,
been agitating ; and, I am proud to say, ever will,
until it is made the law of the land. How comes it
then, that you, who have hitherto been our most
powerful and eloquent friend, pleading for justice and
baffling its enemies, " now fall over to our foes,"
and bid the industrious millions, with right and justice
on their side, not to fight for Universal Suffrage against
a despotic Legislature, whose only defence is a
standing array and brute force police legion, " be-
cause they would be beaten ;" and might we not also be 1
beaten in any other object you propose ? Might we
not be beaten even whilst speaking in favour of God ?
But, then, that is no reason why we should fall over to
the Devil, because his Satanic Majesty has for a mo-
ment triumphed over justice. Honest men know no
fear ! If oppressed, they will fight—if defeated, begin
again ; and if they fall, thousands, animated by the
conduct of one, will rise up and advocate the cause be
died defending. My notions, Reverend Sir (and which
I am sure all will admit are just) is to grapple with
tyranny until it is overthrown ; to ba always prepared
for the worst, and to " rise like lions from their slum-
ber," and go boldly forth to meet oppression, even
though fiends should cross our path. and bid us yield!
We'll conquer, or we'll die!
But at present " physical force" is not our object, our
motto being, from the first, that in obtaiuinee our poli-
tical rights we should persevere " morally, if we can ;
forcibly, if we must :" and according to which it will be
our proudest duty to perform. You yourself it was
that bid the people -arm ; and that, as you would re-
commend nothing but what you also intended to do,
you would exchange the surplice for the red coat, and
be their leader ! and yet scarce three months have
elapsed since you said it (on Primrose Hill), when you
turn, and bid the people not to fight for Universal Suf-
frage, because it would not bring comfort to the cottage,
and that you intend to retire to the fields to recruit
your exhausted spirits. All this may be very
well, as. far as you are concerned ; but the
people, Mr. Stephens, the people, arc not to be
" shuffled and cut" in this manner ; this is a game Go-
vernment have long been playing, until human nature
can brook it no longer ; and believe me, Sir, if you
play a part in such delusion, I shall be inclined to be-
lieve that you are for our enemies. That you require
rest is true ; no man having ever exerted himself so
much in the cause of the people as you have done, but
it is not at all becoming of you to bid us resign Univer-
versa' Suffrage, which we have so long hoped for ;—it
is not for you, who have hitherto been our friend, to
damp the ardour of our country friends by condemning
the five points of the Charter ; and it is our earnest,
but respectful, request, that you will do nothing to pre-
judice it. As for the comforts of the cottage, which
you so nobly advocate, be assured they must and will
follow Universal Suffrage, and until that glorious object
is attained, the cottager will be oppressed ; Corn-laws
will create starvation ; Poor-laws will sanction
Bastiles ; and murder, and every other species of shame-
ful tyranny, will exist under the sanction of the " Re-
formed House of Commons," until honest men, elected
by the free and universal voice of the people, shall be
chosen ; who will " do justice for truth's sake," and
make England prosperous, and her people happy.
I remain, Sir, respectfully,
A MIDDLE CLASS CHARTIST.
Paddington, Aug. 17.

Several mills at Stockport have this week re- I
sumcd full time. The bands appear delighted at the
prospect of the receipt of a little more money the next pay
n;glit.--Bolton Chronicle.
MARCH OF DRUNKENNESS.-011 Monday,
upwards of seventy drunken and disorderly charges were
heard at Queen's Square Office.est.Nniloinrest
charge s
than fifty of the
er sheet,
and were upon the B, or W
and more than two-thirds of the bacchanals were women.
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CARSE OF GOWRIE.—The dry w i eather n the
early part of summer communicated a degree of strength
to the under part of the stems of the cereal crops, which
have enabled the plant in a great measure to bear up
under so unusual a quantity of rain. The ear of wheat is
long, compact, and well filled.
oils by the fly ed.
• On a
the depredatigreat many fields
. are inconsiderable. On some
fields in sheltered
upon situations there are marks of more
mischief; hut, whole' the wheat crop, if well got
in, will far e•xceed what could have been expected in the
early part of the season. A fresh supply of coroeal roots,
were sent forth after the rains in June ; these roots
formed at an unusual period
hof the season, afford vigorous
nourishment to tee
dateapparent in its whole
habit. Within two weeks
plant,
from thismuch early-sown
wheat will have a ripened colour, and cutting will com-
mence in the last week of this month. Late-sown barley
on friable bottoms has a luxuriant appearance—where
early. sown it n ill not be bulky. In the Low Carse oats
form but a small part of the crop; towards the summit of
the Braes they arc the only part that can be depended on.
The appearance in general is favourable. Beans continue
in many instances to show a stinted or Fartially diseased
plant. On dry, deep, and rich lands, they appear better,
and are tolerably wellpodded. Peas in wet bottoms have
1 a sickly appearance ; on opened lands the appearance is
favourable. Flay not half the usual weight. Where
potatoes came up well they have a fine vigorous, foliage'
e.
stem, and blossom, indicative of a fine tuber. Turnips
promise to be weighty. Clovers promise a gooclseCbond
I cutting ; pastures, of which there few, afford a goad bite.
In the orchards, apples
and pears this season are unusu-
ally scarce. This holds generally through the island, and
will be severely felt in the cider counties in the south.—
, August 8.

RAILWAY COMMUNICATION

AND
LATE NEWS.

NOTICE.—In: consequence of the increased faci-
lities daily afforded by the Extension of Rail-
way ComrAnnications to the principal Cities,
Towns, emd most populous parts of the
Country,--and in accordance with the wishes
of various Commercial News-rooms, Clubs,
and othen;--