The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-08 00:00:00

RLBO.ROUGII-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

CHARGE OF ROBBERY.
John Rogers was brought up before Mr. Bingham for
unal examination on the charge of having stolen a silver
spoon, the property of the Earl of Lucan.
William Peto deposed that he was assistant to Mr.
allhan, pawnbroker, of 163, Oxford-street, and that
ja Wednesday, the 27th of July, the prisoner came into
I.!!k_e shop and offered the silver spoon produced for sale.
tylvitness asked
sentwhere he got it from, when he replied
tat a man had him with it. "Witness told him to
im ~end the man to him, which he declined doing. Wh-
! then gave him into custody.
Bpolice-constable Lister, 146 D, said he was called into
e'Vau ghan's shop, and took the prisoner into custody.
at told witness that he had picked up the spoon in the
t red, and that he swept a crossing near Hanov'er-
:are. In consequence of this witness made inquiries
a,poowthnileiinameighbourhood, and found out the owner of the
.:111°v" Wood, under-butler to the Earl of Lucan, 20,
square stated that the prisoner had occasi?x!-
y bee employed to run errands by his lordship s
le"ants. The spoon produced was the property of his
ordship.
tjhe prisoner, who persisted in adhering to the state-
trilit. he had made to-the policeman, was committed for

THE CONDEMNED CONVICTS.

tet az°-i•
lae Sherwood, the young woman who was sen-
T,..ed to be executed at Lewes, has been reprieved.
a i° memorials were forwarded to the Home Secretary
moo days ago, and on Thursday last the following reply
received : " Whitehall, August 3, 1.853.—5ir,--
, esaint Palmerston havinc, carefully considered your
la.PtPilii,caati.on in behalf of Caroline Sherwood, I_ ha-ye
utmhe.
,taf, satisfaction to acquaint you that under all the clre
e be has felt warranted in advising her Majesty to
life mute the prisoner's sentence into transportation for
401;---„,I am, sir, your obedient servant, H. WADDINGTON.
All II:. Auckland, Esq., solicitor, Lewes."
Place
similar commutation of punishment has also taken
ee in the case of Jane Chenworth, convicted at the
ort assizes at Bodwin of drowning a child entrusted
l" bY Its mother, under pretence of having occasion
wiveave
the it orf a short time to make some purchases, but
a inte
. ntion, as subsequent events proved, of de-
of the
getting it. The circumstances attending the commission.
°.frenee were very peculiar, and the advisers of the
tio:oaftelt justified in giving effect to the recommenda-
t.,,h Jury in the prisoner's favour.
vie •alarshall, who with two other persons was con-
ed at the last High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh
Vhetrehri,,witg a man out of the window of a brothel,
Prieve—d" be was killed on the spot, has also been re-
take its by her Majesty, but the law has been left to
e
far~ne
"urs upon her accomplices, Hans Smith Abe-
and Helen Blackwood.

THE OBROURANTISTS IN IRELAND, (Lc.

( From the Press.)
It is
behind not at all improbable that events now occurring
se the scenes at Dublin may lead to political con-
quences of importance.
I::The National Board of Education has never been poot-
ar with the ultramoutanists. The system was n
tha,etre", b; its founder, Lord Derby, as the most perfect
that -0'1414 devised in theory, but as the only one
land. the State
could consistently establish in Ire-
old T° educate the Roman Catholics through the
;Protestant schools was manifestly impossible, espe-
liallY after the act of 1829. On the other hand, for the
ibtAbtei; t° found Roman Catholic schools, and to allot
seti-le Money for th searate support, wourlodye bae
14/7ring a rale that would, n
qvi for overthrowingth the Pirs:etsstawntotnugr'ehP. It is
Si tits, however, that thaisreisatihmeinpgointot trheaatnh. Dr.Cull.en
1.46 ultramontams s .
..e.-
ttitoad to which theyThaerye
adtetsaierkouAsreohfbaismh"ovpinwg
hbayteciieryn-
tizte '4 approaches.
its 9
4 asibly in order to daniage the Board otharedy;hoapned,napsosno
i,10.1.17 shall have destroyed
la -b erect an ascendancy over educational influences
Noland,
Russell would have called,
th4s in What Lord John
alit are they without hopes of obtaining English
04 i Years since, "their insolentandinasmideionugss't'
prea headay last a journal, notorious schemes.t
li e d. a i. y
tett! for its scarcely concealedhp.natroonbasgeequoiefsthefeirtihn-e
Isiat!°n, exults at the aPp'roac r.l!toric was displayed
jr„ iotaa Board. Its invidious
4' innuendoes against what it was,4
`,lolirless Christianity" n o
asserting pleased t h
at
to callthe
toar' °it went the length ec-a,tive religion,"
It happens,
ititi.„,d Was expiring of " soenilitdy.'o'
tht,"'"! that, owing to deaths an
Lae 'National
lastfficiafil
ber,B received a reinforcement of severa(lthneewmmasetraer-
it, ',-,,,_ amongst others Mr. Murphy ton and the
Itom'oancery), Sir Thomas
45-44 Catholic clergyman, Dealt:.
attending
lenar'(;)rewthhialen,
23in
)`Sara its of its efficiency, although it is3ilinnegoY
its ;;°ld, it has now half a million of children
thi,l,"ols, with nearly six thousand teacpherso;seasndinwtihthe
pr,,,s.ast Machinery it requires for
1.-- 514 session of Parliament a ant of
We o- furl) less than
the efficiency of
the N._ ?otice these imputations u
but as Board, not, however,pfoonretyheeailredii.npoprtoarnocuer,
part ° the symbols of a
the system
fonia'awe believe the choice lies between
policy yet unr
Give up
the std by Lord Derby and Obscurantism.
The national system and the Obscurantittsshthysoasumtteumst tiiuniouli.d
and Irish Roman Catholics are too poor to build schoolshPea
theirs°l)Port teachers. They did not do
than
wnow,
and ; country was more prosperous tl„
),Wouldtgivies
nearlyabsiird
twtoo
presided
oveaerl3, t_poundssandanrhament
rl,u a n Ilrish I
educationalsupposeundred
be rash3' the priest'. At the same time it 1
ett to under-estimate the audacity of the allies of
3,4111.1a1 Wiseman in the Cabinet. We may, possibly,
viz Xi' of the appropriation clause in another shape—t_
--eat
separate sectarian education in Irelan.,
rioh.
Lailitnetion and support of the State. It is not. imap_
0.
tate: under
some plan of the kind is now being ?1 b
con "i'der Cullenian auspices to be advocated in due
no-orse with Gladstonian subtlety. In 1834, at thewas
an-
rent of certain propositions, the,N,Vhi
Whig
partythe ma-
% 1,1 asunder, and Sir James Graham
frnetaililYas- "to
ane similarand hiins
genoilelietiaygeue
disposition
n'ay r.ekqnliioniwr etslite° public
re-
ifbl let, e, jell Iyal t e r with proposals which tend in the same di-
moTl:_° Proceedings of Thursday in the House of Corn-
di," furnished two more instances of the prevailing
bids josition on the Ministerial side to play .i, of t
ke connnittee of inquiry on nunneries,
for a he Obscurantists. In abandoning e
convenient
snymeontieionnt
of mbar for Bath broke down a no longer usefulbridgoef
"vletetreat, while he dexterously yielded the prestige
f`eto„.
~ u ra.mon n
• to
to the lt ta ist allies of his political
how°- in the second instance, Lord Johnßussfeor,..
tot ejer mindful, of the " insolent," convenientlynon
our
uttZed` insidious" part of Romish aggressioh
vind t social machinery, when he
giving 0 destroy the law of superstitious uses,„rum
those tlie priestly interest a perpetual setrxevmePtiyonai
sideby
Which provisions of the New Charitable Trusts Bill
tlta were intended to protect all alike against spin
ea', 01 temporal fraud, whether practised by Roman
Lnolic death-bed harpies or lax latitudinarian ti115...73.
...73. The noble lord might have regarded this new
thP" to the spiritual reversionists as an amende, nega-
Zi ' and 'VVhiggish, for some of the superfluous insults
etandelam, limitingDuramletter ; but the amendment of Mr.
the operation of the meditated
::,, lice to two years. was adopted by Lord J. Rus-
th:U. as the sole means of saving his own. Even
-,,oe,Mendment was too subversive of the object of the
'-, lesiastical Titles Act, and of the principle of the
_general law relating to charitable trusts, to be permitted, ;
and on Sir Frederick Thesiger resisting it " as an ad.
'''..-.lBSion that a. system was to be applied to Roman
Ndatholie charities different from that adopted towards.
rag
effectingireeectnteietosofef
r,
the
irhil
°el's," there was a very close division (in which, it is
worthy of remark, Lord Palmerston was not available),
thenieoefw iliol
bill by
ea
hdayoffpataiiro
isnt majority
rgitithis
to
oHf e a 4 1a in - o n -R u s s e 1 1
theonly
u eleven.ltrani oti t arru inset
theirth eempeornaetyionpao.welrnoftthhee
efaaTei
oaftixth-oeyierairssh'
education system, and of conventual establishments,
they are not so fortunate - being conemned to the
tantalising task of continually watching the fluctuating
tide of public indigntion.

.T.s.l'llE CROLERA.—The cholera continues its ravages iu
Per:nark with scarcely any diminution. U
inst. 3,122 had fallen victims to the epidemicp to the 2d Nearly
30,000 of the inhabitants had quitted the city, which
presented a most deserted and melancholy aspect. It is
stated that the disease is much aggravated by the appear-
ance of the yellow fever, brought here by vessels from
St. Thomas, and that it presents some new %Attires
North, of observation.