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

RENT RECEIVED.

✓
From Walsall five pounds, and from Barnly
Castle Workingmen's Association, one pound six
shillings.

A vote of thanks to the Chairman having been
passed with acclamation, the meeting dissolved.

On Tuesday, the first number of the Police
Gazette, under the new regulation, was circulated at
the various police offices. Hitherto it has been customary
to publish daily an abstract account of all persons charged
at the different metropolitan police-offices, as well as infor-
mation received of offences, &c. committed, in a sheet
called the Daily Police Report, and which has always
been, to official persons, of the greatest utility. For the
future, however, such information is to be published only
three times a week in the Polici Gazette.
DISCOVERY OF AN ANCIENT CHAPEL AT
CuEsTEß.—Some years ago Messrs. Powell and Edwards,
cutlers, of this city, discovered at the back of their pre-
mises some traces of Gothic architecture, and to a certain
extent they removed the rubbish which had hitherto -con-
cealed the archwork. However, conceiving it was merely
a cellar which had in the course of time got filled with
rubbish, they did not proceed in clearing it until a few
weeks back. To their credit they have carried upwards of
100 loads of rubbish out of the place, and now is exposed
to view to the lovers of antiquity a chapel upwards of 15
yards long, 151 feet broad, and 14 feet in height. The
arches aare Gothic, beautifully grained, resting on pi-
lasters, about half way down the wall, very much
resembling those at the entrance into the cloisters
of our Cathedral near Little Abbey-square ; the whole
is in an admirable state of preservation. At the west end
are two niches in which the baptismal or sprinkling fonts
(for holy water), have been kept, one of which was found
in the rubbish, and is now placed in the situation it ori-
ginally occupied ; the other was broken by the workmen.
At the cast end of the chapel are steps which have led up
to the altar ; and on the south side of the chapel are a
flight of steps leading into a subterraneous passage, now
choaked up. It is plain that this was anciently a place of
worship for the monks belonging to the monastery of Grey
Friars, which was situated near w here the St. Bride's new
Church, opposite the Castle, now stands. Many conjec-
tures have arisen as to the date of the foundation of this
place of worship, but all is mere conjecture, as nothing has
been discovered which could lead to fixing the point of
time. Antiquaries n ill enjoy a rich treat in surveying
this relic of the ancient devotional scenes of our fore-
fathers; and we have no doubt vast numbers will avail
themselves of the kindness and civility of Messrs. Powell
and Edwards, and visit it.—Chester Gazette.
THE COMMON INFORNIER.—The Common In-
former, instructed by the wisdom of the Legislature, pro-
tects the morals of the gin and porter-drinking classes, and
visits with a fine the sinful hosts of " The Jolly Cocks."
41'his, therefore, is clear—it is the place that dignifies the
fiddle, not the fiddle the place. Apollo, with his pipe of
virgin gold, at " The Jolly Cocks," would be a law-
breaker; St. Cecilia, with her a baggage for the
police. If the reader doubt this, we beg his particular at-
tention to the next meeting of the Aliddlesex magistrates
onli censing day; when, unless the county sages shall have
been miraculously enlightened, the reader may listen to
grave and eloquent discourse on the iniquity of public-
house music ; the social danger of a fiddle in a tea-garden,
the revolutionary principles latent in a country-dance at
Bagnigge- Wells. We well remember the patriotic indig-
nation of a Middlesex Rhadamanthus last tutumn :—An
impudent varlet, landlord of a Pimlico inn, applied for a
license for a fiddle. " What 1" exclaimed the justice, and
his ears seemed to shoot up higher than the ears of magis-
terial man with wonder ' - " What, music at Pimlico 1 under
the very nose of the palace 1" A shudder ran along the
bench, and the license was refused. Now, is not the
Common Informer the especial favourite, the hireling poi
of such wise Worships ?—Jerrold in Heads of the People.
PROBABLE EFFECT OF STEAM.--Steam will
half ruin England yet if they don't mind. It will drain it
of its money, drain it of its population, and, what is more
than all, what it can spare least of all, and what it will
feel more nor all, its artisans, its skilful workmen, and its
honest, intelligent, and respectable middle classes. It will
leave yon nothin' in time but your aristocracy and your
poor. A trip to America is pin' to be nothin' more than
a trip to France, and folks will go where land is cheap and
labour high. It will build the new world up, but it will
drain the old one out in a way no one thinks on. Turn this
tide of emigration to your own provinces, or, as sure as
eggs is eggs, we will get it all. You han't no notion
what steam is destined to do for America. It will make
it look as bright as a pewter button yet, I know.—Sam
Slick.

EMIGRATION OF MECHANICS.—We under-
stand that is February last a hand of nineteen mechanics
left Manchester per railway for Amiens. On Tuesday
morning, at half-past eight, another band of fifteen, all
mechanics, took their departure from Manchester for the
same destination. From particular inquiries made respect-
ing the latter deportation, it appears that they are all of
them machine makers, and several of them from the emi-
nt machine-making establishment of Messrs. Cocker and
Higgins, of Salford. It is quite impossible for any but
those who pay great attention to the matter (and who have
at the same time ready access to the parties commissioned
by the Continental manufacturers and spinners to enter
into engagements on their behalf), to form the least idea
of the extent to which this sort of emigration is now con-
ducted. But our readers will be still more surprised,
perhaps, to learn that even women and young girls who
have been brought up as spinners and piecers, &c. are now
also regularly going to the Continent, to be employed in
cotton mills. When it is considered, too, that such
parties can now reach Ostend, or even Ghent, in less
time, and at as little expense, as it took but only twenty
years ago to reach London, there is little to be wondered
at that the labouring classes should thus endeavour to dis-
pose of their only merchandise (labour) to the best ad-
vantage.—Manchester Times.
SEIZURE AT STORNOIVAY.— We understand
that, some weeks ago, a schooner belonging to Leith, while
on her passage to Galway, in Ireland, lost her jib-boom,
and, in distress, put into the harbour of Stornoway. The
master of the schooner, not being able to get another jib-
boom ashore, applied to the captain of a Swedish vessel,
lying at anchor, who furnished him with a spar to make
one; but, in fetching it alongside in open day, Mr. Bell,
second mate of the revenue cutter Prince of Wales, with a
boat's crew, forcibly took it away, and, in the course of the
evening, at 11 o'clock, carried off the boat belonging to the
vessel, as penalty, he said, for not reporting the circum-
stance at the Custom-house. The captain of the cutter,
Mr. Oliver, much to his praise, afterwards expressed re-
gret that such a proceeding should have taken place in a
matter so trivial, yet otherwise necessitous; but the collec-
tor of customs displayed very different feelings, and re-
mained inexorable. Under these circumstances, the mas-
ter of the vessel was obliged to get another boat, of inferior
description, and put to sea in a stormy season of the year,
with a temporary jib-boom.—Edinburgh Observer.—[We
thought the business of her Majesty's servants had been to
aid and help, not harass her Majesty's subjects.]
THE LATE ALLEGED MURDER AT HAYES.
—Since the removal of the prisoner, Francis Hastings
Medhurst, who stands charged upon the Coroners' war-
rant with the wilful murder of Mr. Joseph Alsop,
great exertions have been manifested by the friends, both
of the accused and the deceased, to put the trial off
until the May Session of the Central Criminal Court.
On the part of the prosecution, however, Sir Frederick
Pollock and Mr. Bodkin, have been retained, at a very
extraordinary fee. The Attorney- General, Mr. Stammers,
and another Counsel, have been engaged for the defence.
The former, it is alleged at the enormous sum of three
hundred guineas.
' THE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.—Since
the foundation stone of the river wall, for the New Houses
of Parliament was laid (early in March), and upon which
the main front will stand, the walls in that part have made
considerable progress; nearly the who!e of the wall is
finished. At the north end, nearest Westminster-bridge,
several heights of finely wrought Scotch granite have been
laid. The other end appears to have been delayed, owing
to an additional depth being taken out for the removal of
decayed wood, shells, and soft ground, which was after-
wards filled in with concrete. The wall is apparently of
great strength. A material, called Pozzoluno, has been
imported from Italy to strengthen the mortar. The walls
arc done within a cofferdam, which is nearly four hundred
yards in length, and has so effectually resisted the highest
tides, that the workmen seem quite unconscious of any
danger, although the foundation of the walls is many feet
below the bed of the rive. The above are chiefly what
are considered engineering works, but we understand that
Mr. Barry, the architect, has also the superintendence of
them, jointly with Messrs. Walker and Burgess, the engi-
neers of all the work which the Messrs. Lee have con-
tracted for, and which include part of the main walls of the
future Houses of Parliament, besides the river wall and em-
bankment.

IYesterday morning Henry Burrows, a journeyman
baker, 23 years of age, residing in Mary-street, Hamp-
stead-road, cut his throat in a shocking manner with
a razor. The unfortunate man had gambled the whole of
his money away on Tuesday at Greenwich Fair, and was
also excited by liqour. No hopes are entertained of his
recovery.