The Sun.
London, England, 1838-07-19 00:00:00

The doom of the beer-shops is sealed. By all persons,
and in all parts of the country, where the operation of
these nurseries of vice is witnessed, there is one loud and
uni -irsal cry against them. Among the denouncers of the
beer-shops we Is ive Vsis dty to include the Grand Jury at
Chilesford. Wlien they came into Court to he dischareed,
after in awing the usual formal present mene,!hey eagerly -va led
t iiem.selves of the opportunity thus afforded them of bearing
their te:611011v to the frightful arts resulting from the beer-
shop measure, and of congratulating the country on the
introduction of a Bill which Lae for its object the extinc-
tion of beer-shops. " After," says our reporter, " Vie
Grand Jury iia.:l made the usual formal presentment. they
stetel. in addition, that they regretted to see that the de-
merel;zing influence of the beer-shops in the country sad
continued, and they rejoiced to learn that a measure was
now before the Legislature which would hare the
effect of doing away with them altogether ; and they
hoped that it would speedily become the law of the
land." The hopes of the Grand Jury of Chelmsford will
be realized before the lapse of six months. It will be one
of the first Acts of Parliament, on its re-assembling in the
begienine• of- next year, to repeal the mischievous Act of
1829. 'When so respectable and disinterested a body as
the Grand Jury of Chelmsford comes forward with so much
avidity to bear witness to the, pernicious working of that
measure, the country will at once form some conception of
the fearful state of things which has been produced by it.
Need we sey,that the testimony of such a body of gentlemen
—themselves, be it remembered, eye-witnesses of the re-
sults which they deprecate—must have its weight,
had any such additional weight been wanting, in
causing the Legislature to proceed with the utmost
practicable expedition in abating the beer-shop nuisance ?
Not less important were the observations of Lord
Denman in reference to the same subject. His Lord-
ship said :—.‘ The subject was most certainly one of
very great importance, and the representation which had
just been made, comit, as it did from a body of such in-
fluence as the Grand Jury of the county of Essex, de-
serted most serious consideration, and he would take
care that it should be laid before her Majesty's Se-
cretary of State, who, he had no doubt, would pay the
proper attention to it." The testimony which the Chelms-
ford Grand Jury thus bear against the beer-shop system
will, we doubt not, be borne, ere long, by every Grand Jury
in England. The evil has now reached such a height as to
demand the interference of every man who values the well-
being of society, or the morals or happiness of the work-
ing classes. We doubt if ever an Act of Parliament
was passed since the time of the dissolute Charles the
Second which has played such fearful havoc with the
morals of the lower orders as the Beer-shop Bill of
1829. The doom of the system kwe repeat, irrevocably
sealed. Mr. Hume may put himself to a world of toil
and trouble in propping it up ; Mr. Warburton may be as
lavish of his ponderous witticisms as he pleases when seek-
ing to uphold the beer-shops ; Mr. Hawes may move for
as many returns as he thinks fit of the number of pers ins
taken into custody at metropolitan fairs, with the view,
of showing that beer-shops in those places by no means
lead to crime ; and the Morning Chronicle may be " phi-
losophical," and the Examiner ironical, in vindicating the
beer-shop principle ; but all will not do ; the voice of the
country is against those places, and down they must go.
To the country we promise the riddance of a nuisance of
incalculable magnitude; and to the Licensed Victuallers
we hold out the assured prospect of a deliverence from the
operation of one of the most unjust and iniquitous mea-
sures towards a respectable body of men which ever re_
ceived the sanction of the Legislature.—Morn. Advertiser
Our anti-Church Establishment Contemporary, the Exa-'
miner, affecting to believe that Lord J. Russell, Mr,
O'Connell, and the Papist ecclesiastical authorities in Ire-
land, are not implicitly or explicitly identified in their ob-
jects, in-reference to the Established Church, observes :
" Lord John Russell may implore Mr. O'Connell to use his
powerful exertions to give effect to the measure, but if his
Lordship studies the signs of the times in Ireland he will per-
ceive that the people are taking the Church question into their
own hands, and are forming resolutions which show them to be
far removed from any temporizing. influence."
This edifying passage, being interpreted, would seen to
mean that our Whig-Papist Ministry, Mr. O'Connell, and
their respective fellow-labourers in lieland, have so effec-
tively fomented the anti-Protestant spirit in that country,
that nothing short of the total abolition of the Church by
law established will satisfy their Papist clients. "To this
complexion is it come at last ?" Such are the blessed fruits
of " Liberalism," and concession and Whiggery. A con-
summation, the attainment of which pre-supposes rebellion
and revolution in Ireland—which could not be sanctioned
or suffered by the Sovereign, without a forfeiture of the
Crown—is thus complacently, not to say exultingly, con-
templated. We are told by the Examiner that this
consummation is inevitable : or. to use the docorous
illustration and facetious phraseology of our Ministerial
contemporary— .
" As .Gay says of the cucumber, that after it has been
dressed with all nicety and care, the best thing to do with it
is to fling it away ; so it appears that after all the mincing
of the great grievance of Catholic Ireland, the only good
thing to do with it is to do away with it altogether. And to
that consumniatio 3 it must come at last."
It would be difficult to be more jocular and tolerant on
a topic involving., hypothetically, II:gb treason and the dis-
memberment of the empire. The Examiner not being os-
tensibly an organ of the Ministry, any conclusion drawn
from the tone adopted by that Journal may be considered'
unfounded or unsatisfactory as regards the policy, positive or
negative, of the Goterntnent, in reference to the Establish-
ment in Ireland. To the Chronicle the same objection does
not apply. That respectable journal is, indeed, nothing if
not Ministerial. Yet is it more rabidly anti-Protestant, if
po.sible, than the Examiner, and were it not that its del-
nels neutralises the effects of its malice, would be equally
dangerous. This combination, however, does but ren-
der it a more appropriate organ of the obtuse and malig-
nant fiction whose policy it advocates. Whether weak-
ness or wickedness he the more marked characteristic of
the present Administration may be matter of doubt. But
that they have achieved a degree of pre-eminence in evils
which entitles them to be cqu Illy detested and despised.
the state to which their selfish and premeditated misgo-
vernment has reduced Ireland affords a melancholy and
conclusive proof. II ol anything been wanting to complete
their claim to the contempt as well as hatred of every Pro-
testant l3ritor, the whining cant of Lord John Russell on
the apprehended injury to the stability of the Irish Church
would have furnished it. Could the Whig-Papist tool of
the Irish priestocracy have persuaded himself that such
dastardly stimulation would impose on his English and Pro
tes.aat tnemies, or even gratify his Irish and Papist friends?
Or was the offensive exhibition a mere, indulgence of Isisap-
latite fo • ttickery.—Merning Post.

MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.-INQUEST

(From our Second iditien of Last Night.)
Miry Baines, 10, 111.ickhorse court, corroborated Mr. Pipe.
evidence with regvird to the house of ill-fame, No. 8.
Margaret Tomlie, tht, nurse, was recalled, and closely
questioned by tire jury. She sltZted that on the night previous
to his death, deceaied receive d two draughts front Miers and
Mrs. Pow. They were of a pale vellow colour. Witness
told Nliers. the Monday previous to Pow's d a!lt. that she hal
given him half a pint of gin, and fliers said that nas enough.
John Pople, son of Mr. Pople, proprietor of the Roebuck,
Tottenham-eourt-ro2d. deposed that the nurse (whom he
identified) came a little before five one morning last week to
his fathers' shop. and had three half quarterns of gin. She
said, " make haste, I have a man dying, who is ordered to drink
nothing but girt," A short time after she came again, and had
a quartern of gin, and one of brandy, and in about half an hour
three more half- quarterns were saved to h r.
Mr. J. Wells, registrar of births and deaths for St. Pancras,
stated, that on the 13th inst. Mires registered the death of de-
ceased as arising from delirium tremens.
About this period Tiers appeared at the doo?, but was
ordered to withdrew.
Dr. Brook here returned, and deposed, that having exa-
mined the deceased's bode, he found the stomach in a natural
external condition, but 'the inner, or mucous membrane,
much inflamed. The liver was in the state common
to persons addicted to drinking. The stomach and bowels
•
were empty, but much distended with gas. The appear-
ances of the stomach and liver were not sufficient to account
for death. Could not say that deceased died of delirium
tremens, though from appearances it was not unlikely ; co
mineral poison had been adftiinistered ; but vegetable poison
would not, owing to the advanced state of decomposition
in which the body was, be detected now. Cannot speak posi-
tively as to the cause of death. Spirits it was most Improper
to give to a patient in such a states.
Mr. Preedy gave similar evildenne, adding that he did not
believe the deceased died from de/Warn /tenons.
The whole of the evidence was then read over by the
clerk, after which the Jury retired for an hour to refresh
themselves; on re-assembling, other evidence was heard, but
not of importance, being corroboratory of that already given;
and, at half-past ten o'clock at night, the Jury wore left alone,
when, after a short c,naidcrstion, the inquiry Ka ~gain
arlj3urned until Monday next, after lasting near elevcn boors.

SummitAm.—A fatal accident Grxt,irred on Mon-
day in the Swiss Gardet;g. It appears that a lad named firoolipj, who
was employed on the premises, wept out as usual early in the morning to
pump the water from the hold beutaa the floating temple. About
vven o'clock Mrs, Welk another person engagi:d in the gardens, having
occasion for his services, called to Brooker; but receivlpg tio answer,
went out to look for him, whEd slip perceived his hat swimming .oss the
lake, and one of his hands protruding 14 fewe the water. Mrs. 'Welt,
th.t,intly raised an alarm, assistance was proauted, go the unfortunate
yoo:h was ext6cated four his perilous situation ; but hit
sensible, and taodg6 140113 medical men were promptly in attenda..4,,:,
ever" cjiort to restore arsimati;,; proved unavailing. The water where
fortuthtte occurrence. hapPeruhi ../a; feet 8 inches in depth. It
ith:i: nupupa,4 ;topping from the temple to in order to get
ashore, hit foot sjpii.o 4;0 he fell, as the water was t00u,2 be all
out of
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