The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-25 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLISENCE.

MA RYLTEB ONE.
Yesterday Robert Johnson, a genteel-looking young man;
employed as salesman in the furniture department at the M.,
zaar, Baker-street, Portman-square, was brought up in cus-
tody by Dutch and Franklin, two officers of this establishment,
charged before Mr. RAWLINSON with embezzling money to a
large amount. The prisoner, who, by the advice of his Soli-
citor, declined saying anything, was fully committed to New.
gate for trial.
Yesterday Edward Ilewit, formerly a constable in the S
division of metropolitan police, and subsequently on the Lon-
don and Birmingham Railroad, was brought before the magis-
trates, together with a woman named Jane Martha Saunton,
charged on a warrant with assaulting Mary Ann Hewitt. He
was ordered to find bail, and the woman was discharged.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
A question of some importance was brought under the notice
of Mr. DYER and Mr. CONANT,. by Mr. Foxhall, the district
surveyor of St. George, Hanover square. The case came on
in the shape of an information against Mr. liana wk, grocer,
Mount-street, for an alleged iaringement of the Building
Act, in altering a permitsnt, so as to cause n projee:ion of
greater extent than dby the Act. Mr. Rogerts at-
tended on the part of the do fence.
The defendant, it appeared, wishing to have an alteration
in his shop front, caused the two how windows, with the doors
between, to be removed and replaced by one large bow win-
dow, with the door on one side. The original Low window
projected over the area upwards of three feet from the line of
building, but as it had been built before the Building Act
came into operation, it came under the protection of certain
of the exceptive clauses. The new window was built upon
the old foundation, and the projection was two inches less than
the old front. The question in issue between the parties was,
whether the alteration did not constitute such a rebuilding as
took the projection out of the list of exception and brought
it under the operation of that clause which made it impe-
rative that all projections built after the passing of the Act
should not extend more than ten inches from the perpendicu-
lar line of front.
Mr. Rogers contended that the 52d clause of the Act gave
permission to repair old bow windows. Now his client, in
rnakiiig the alteration he had made, had dune no more than be
was warranted in doing according to the proper construction
of the Act.
Mr. John White, district surveyor of Nlarylebone, begged
to say a few words on the subject of the present information.
The question before the bench was one of the greatest public
importance, and more particularly in his district, where nume-
rous litigations were at present pending. He had known the
question settled differently by different magistrates, and this
circumstance had extremely perplexed owners of property in
their efforts to construe the Act.
- Mr. White said that by projections were meant, not parts
of the main body of a building, but something put out from
it. The next clause made it clear that the question of pro-
jections referred to the payment.
Mr. •DYER observed gain Mr. White's opinion might possibly
be correct, but it was agst the tenor ot the Magi4trates' de-
cision.
Mr. Foxhall consented to withdraw the information, and
the parties then retired.

•
WORSHIP- STREET.
Yestet day a boy of the nnme of Ripon, an apprentice to Mr.
Oversee, weaver, Grosvenor-place, Bethnal-green, appeared
before Messrs. GROVE and BRO GHTON, to prefer a charge
against hie master, under the following circumstances :
The boy, who is about seventeen years of age, had scarcely
sufficient strength to do the severe part of the work, and
otherwise was not exployed so es to bring kim forward in the
business ; instead of instructing him properly, his master made
him v.-alk up and down the room with a stick in each hand,
for the purpose of exercising himself. He had never been
brought before the Magistrate on account of any misconduct.
Mr. BROUGHTON asked where the indentures werel—Tlie
boy said that they were destroyed..
Mr. BROUGHTON expressed his surprise at such a circum-
stance.
The master said that it was at the suggestion of his brother,
who is twenty years of age. He had received no premium for
the boy.
The mother of the boy, who is a poor woman, stated•that
she had given his master thirty shillings.
Mr. BROUGHTON remarked that the. defendant must refund
the money, and if he would not voluntarily do that; -ho silent('
advise the ease to be laid before the Board of Guardieus of the
parish of Bethnal green. • , •

LITERATURE AND ART.---We have mita- plea-
sure in observing that Mr. Co%urn intends producing a new
and cheaper odition, with considerable additions, of the 4 Me-
moirs of the Beauties of the Court of Charles II." The:pub-
lication is to commence on the Ist of February, and is' to be
completed in six monthly parts, at 7s. 6d. each. Indei.en-
dently of the great attractions of this production as a work of
art, i.s literary and historical interest is remarkable. The
Memoirs, written in ItirA. .I.uneson's usual lively and elegant
style, abound. with striking fads and br iliia, t anecdotes of the
Court of our gayest and wittiest king, and the portraits (21 in
number) are engraved in the most finished and admirable
manner by the first artists.• We anticipate for this new issue
a most extended sale, for the reduction in the price places it
the means of many who could not afford to purchase the
'more expensive edition.
A clergyman has been advertised for " for . ,
prayers every Sunday evening in a London church,: J• 3
•oceasionally, and all for a stipend of 201. a year."

WITH WHICH
" THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW

INCORPORATED.

LONDON :
THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1838.

Several Tory dinners have taken place within the
week in various parts of the country ; and among them
we may mention one which was given on Wednesday
last to the Hon. BOOTLE WILBRAHAM (whose very
name is music) by his friends and supporters in 1.1.1-21.-,01-
land. At this dinner the Hon. Member spal.-0, in very
sounding and lofty terms, of the vast sr.crificcs which,
as a patriot of true Roman mould, he was making for
his country. " I feel bound" quoth he, "to give my
best services to this cour4. And I do so, although
the task to me is an e-,lceedingly irksome and unpleasant
one; for besides 111 e labour consequent on my attend-
ance on my -f;arliamentary duties, it requires a continu-
ous resid'..:nce in London ; and for one not fond of the
metropolis, to be kept six months of the year there, is
no small sacrifice ; but I do it for the benefit of this
county, and I trust, in some degree for the good of the
country at large." This is handsome—this is true,
unleavened patriotism. To stay six months in London
for the good of one's country ! Who after a sacrifice
like this, shall say that sterling patriots are not to be
found among the Tories? Mr. BOOTLE WILBRAHAM
--we love to linger on this euphonious appellative—is
a perfect HA mppEst. Though he entertains an in-
vincible dislike to the metropolis, yet as the welfare of
his fellow-countrymen demands that he stay six months
there, he makes the solemn sacrifice without a murmur.
Generous, high-minded man I Why is there no talk of a
public monument to commemmorate such ineffable pa-
triotism ? Shall a Tory WELLINGTON be rewarded
with a statue, and a Tory WILBRAHAM descend un-
noticed to his grave ? In the sacred name of that
gnardiaa deity of Britain, who figures with a trident in
her hand on the reverse side of a penny-piece, we protest
against such crying injustice I Think what it is to
stay six months in London against one's inclination--
to be compelled to hear, night after night, the drowsy
speeches of Tory Members, when a BORTIIWICK is
in excellent wind, and a D'IsaAELI unusually copious
and enigmatical—think, we say, of all this, and learn to
assess at its proper value the patriotism of that states-
man who, for the good of his country, can risk such
alarming contingencies. Mark, too, the meek modesty
of Mr. WILBRAHAM I He is by no means positive
that his six months' residence in London will be of
advantage to his country ; he only " trusts" it may
be so. Trust, indeed I—why, he might be sure of it,
for it is a "moral impossible"--as Tabitha Bramble
would sr,y—that such a statesman can stay six months
in the metropolis without bettering the whole frame-
work of society.
The speech of the Rev. Mr. MACKENZIE, which
was made at the same dinner, and followed Mr.
BOOTLE WILBRAHAM'S, if not characterized by the
latter's modest and patriotic spirit, possessed peculiari-
ties, in their way, equally impressive. It was replete
throughout with indignant vituperation—such as falls
with peculiar propriety from the lips of a 'Minister of
religion--and exuberant, though somewhat cloudy and
mysterious, fancy. After apostrophizing the church
in a style that wanted nothing of poetry but its good
sense, the reverend gentleman went on to observe,

•' this heavenly treasure you are determined to preserve
untouched ; to transmit to your children's children ; to
generations yet unborn. You will not permit the moth
and rust of voluntaryism to corrupt it. You will not
allow the irreligious thieves, sacrilegious robbers, blas-
phemous plunderers, and diabolical destroyers to break
tht ough, and steal, and destroy it." Mercy on us,
what intense sarcasm is here ! Why, JUNIUS is a
mere old woman compared with MACKENZIE! But
this is by no means the daintiest portion of the par-
son's speech. When he comes to describe what he
calls " a tremendous tragedy"—that is to say, an army
of Godless Liberals marching up hill under the ban-
ners of Popery and infidelity, to assault the churches
of England and Scotland, which are situated on the
" high eminence of their vantage ground," in order to
" throw them over the precipices"—we quote Mr.
MACKENZIE'S own words—" into the valley below,
full of dragons and tigers, lions, hears, serpents, and
scorpions, that they may be devoured and destroyed
for ever ;"---when the rev. gentleman comes to
describe this " tremendous tragedy" of hungry wild
beasts " devouring " churches, which the Liberals
throw to them by way of luncheon, we suppose, his
Imrination takes so lofty a flight, and hurries on with
ouch headlong speed, that it fairly distances reason,
and " panting sense toils after it in vain !" Imagine,
indeed% Lord MELBOURNE standing on the top of a
hill% and flinging down a church or two, bells, steeple,
chancel and all, to a ravenous lion in " the valley be-
low; while O'CONNELL throws, from the same
eminence, St. Paul's cathedral to a " tiger ;"
ar►d Lord JOHN RUSSELL accommodates the sto-
rti4eh of a " scorpion " with Westminster Abbey !
Of a verity, this would be giving a " heavy blow
and a great discousage:nent" to Protestantism ; es-
pecially if after throwing a church to a lion, Lord
MELBOURNE were to take it into his unapostolic head
to throw a bishop after it I But Mr. MACKENZIE
need not be apprehensive. The bishops are safe,
and so are the churches—his fears, therefore, are
altogether superfluous.
- Having closed the fifth act of his " tremendous
tragedy "—which, by the bye, bears a strong resem-
blance to a dull farce—the rev. speaker next pro-
ceeds to tell us that a sixth act is forthcoming.
" Restrain your feelings, gentlemen," he observed,
" we have not yet come to the climax. I see," he
continued—indulging in that fine faculty of second
sight, by no means uncommon with gentlemen after

dinner----" I see the departed ghosts of ROBESPIERRE.,
of ROUSSEAU, f - VOLTAIRE, of BOLINGBROKE,and
Ton PAINE, at the bottom of the valley ascrind;:ng
the hill, a swarm of infernal locusts, possession
of its summits." Qutt!ionless, this is a terrific pic-
ture ; but %s the locusts are already in fail possession
of the churches at the top of the hill, we do not see
how they can, with any propriety, be represented as
clambering up to the assault. But enough of Mr.
MACKENZIE and his speech, which is so insufferably
stupid-and bombastic, so full of " sounding brass.,"
and so stuffed with rhodomontade conceits, that it rc-
sembles nothing so much as prose in a state of in-
sanity; and would therefore not have been noticed by
us, had we not wished to show what sorry exhibitions
Fury parsons can consent to make of themselves, when
they think it is for the interest of the cloth that they
should talk nonsense.

No class is more interested than the Operativts
themselves in the inquiry which Mr. WA R LEY is
about to institute respecting the Cotton Spinners' Asso-
ciation at Glasgow. Late events have forced on such an
enquiry ; the trAgical deeds committed in Dublin and
Glasgow have already affixed a stigma on these Asso-
ciations, and call upon every honest member to lend
his aid in screening the innocent, and in proving to
the public who are the miscreants that disgrace the British
name. The task has been properly undertaken by the
Hon. Member for Finsbury. He has stood forward
more prominently than any other in the House of
Commons as the representative of the Working
Classes ; and while he will do his duty in investigating
the charges that have been brought against them, he
will not be liable to any suspicion of bias, such as
might have been entertained, had the subject been
taken up by a member of the Government, or a mas-
ter manufacturer, or even by Mr. O'CONNELL him-
self. It must be an inquiry however that will satisfy
all interested—that is the whole community. A
system of illegal combination is alike injurious
to the master and the workman ; and any
disclosures which can have the effect of con-
vincing those in error as to their real welfare, or
of displaying the mischief which it entails more
immediately upon the artisan, must be regarded as an
inestimable blessing. In no country has the system
been more injurious than in Ireland, and it is lamen-
table to find when that part of the kingdom is restored
to a gate of peace and security, and when men of ca-
pital were preparing to establish manufactures there,
that they should be again deterred by combination
similar to those which have destroyed so many establish.
ments in that country. It is well known that in
several instances Englishmen have been obliged to
withdraw capital which they had embarked in works in
Ireland, because the natives combined against the
English workmen necessary to carry their plans into
effect—and thousands that might have lived com-
fortably have been forced to beg, or what is nearly as
bad, work for fourpence a day. The conduct of the
Spittalfields' Silk-weavers brought about nearly the
same result in this country, and such it will be every
where until an universal system of combination
is established. But what rational being can ex-
pect to see such an Utopian scheme realized ?
Particular interests would prevent a General Union. If
manufactures were banished from England, they would
spring up on the Continent, or in the United States, or
in China ; and would this benefit one out of a thousand
operatives that are now employed ? But even admitting
that unions may be made beneficial, no man, who con-
sults his own welfare, much less any good citizen, can
stand up in defence of combinations, based on
intimidation, violence, and murder. The great
body of operatives in this country talk with horror on
the crimes which have been committed lately, and which
have been imputed to the agents of such associations
as those established in Ireland and Scotland, and they
' will be rojoiced to learn that Mr. WA KL EY has taken

up their cause. Notwithstanding the uproar with
which the late meeting at Dublin broke up, it is gra-
tifying to find that the following resolution was unani-
mously agreed to :
Resolved—That we have beheld with grief and indignation
a system of illegal combination pervade several of the trades
and many of the working classes of this city, and we de-
plore the existence of such a system the more, because it in-
volves not only a direct and avowed breach of the law, but its
obvious tendencies have been and are to diminish work, to drive
away capital, and to lessen the amount of employment and of
wages to workmen of all descriptions."

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