The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-15 00:00:00

CANADA.

Return to an Address of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated
13th August, 1838, for Copies of an Ordinance passed by the Go.
vernor and Special Council of Lower Canada, intitule:l, " An Ordi.
nance to provide for the Security of the Province of Lower Canada ;"
and of a Proclamation issued by the Governor of Lower Canada on
the 28th June last.
Colonial Department, Downing street,
August 14, 1838.
Erratic-1' OF A DISPATCH FROM THE EARL OF DURHAM TO LORI) GLE.
TELL, DATED CASTLE OF ST. LEW 5, QUEBEC, JUNE 29, 1838.
The first step which I took on my arrival was to examine most care.
fully the list of prisoners and the depositions affecting each : in so doing,
I discovered that against only eight or nine there existed any evidence
which would warrant the application of great severity, the chief leae:ers
and instigators of the revolt having fled fiom the province and being in
safety in the United States. I next applied myself, by answers to ad-
dresses and private applications, to the discouragement or any notion of
the possibility of a general amnesty, and announced that my dctermina.
tion was to punish the guilty and to extend mercy to the misguided;
for which purpose I issued a Special Commission for the trial of the pri.
Boners, and sent the Attorney General with it to Montreal. These mea-
sures produced the salutary consequences which I expected, and, joined
to other means through which they became convinced that I would not
suffer the guilty to escape, induced the ringleaders to plead guilty, and
throw themselves on the mercy of the Crown

G. GIIEY.

Yesterday I summoned a special council, a list of the members of
which I enclose your Lordship, and passed an ordinance by which the
prisoners who pleaded guilty are transported from the continent of Ame..
rice during her Majesty's pleasure. M. Papineau and his associates, who
fled from justice, are prevented from re-enteriug the province, and the
remainder are en!arged on giving security for their good conduct. I also
issued a proclamation in her Majesty's name, which announces the latter
act of grace at the same time with the ordinance which inflicts the
punishment.

These measures have met with the entire approbation of Sir John
Colborne and of ;he heads cf wh. t is called the British party: they de.
claret! they did not require any sanguinary punishment, but they desired
security for the future, and the certainty that the returning tranquillity
of the pro, i ice should ri,:t be arrested by the machinations of these
raigleaders of the rebellion, either here or in the United States. This
I have efF,eted for thorn to their contentment. I .;id not think it right
to transport these persons to a cc.nvict colony, for two reasons : first,
because it was affixing a character of moral infamy on their acts which
public np,nion would not sanction; and, secondly, because I bold that it
would be impolitic to force on the colony itself persons who would be
looked upon in the light of political martyrs, and thus acquire, perhaps,
a degree oi'influenc: which might be applied to evil uses in a community
composed of such dangerous elements. On consultation, therefore, with
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Paget, I determined on sending them to Ber-
muda, where they could be plumd under strict restraint and surveillance.
There is, however, little fear of their attempting to escape, as such an
act would close at once and for ever the door against their ever re-enter-
ing their native country.

Sir Charles Paget has ordered the Vestal to be prepared to take the
pri,oners, eight in number, to Bermuda immediately on their arrival
here; and I trust, therefore, that in a very few days there will not remain
in confinement one single parson charged with treasonable and seditious
practices in th's ptovinee. Cf cours,? Ido not refer to the murderers of
Lieutenant Weir, who will be arraigned in the usual manner at the
usual assizes, and whose case oug:it to be clearly excepted from the
class of political offenders.

[Here follows a copy of the Ordinance to provide for the security of
the province of Lower Canada, and the Proclamation issued by the Earl
of Durham on the 28th of June, both of which have been published in
7'he Sun.]

THE CLAIM ON THE QUEEN DOW-

AGER FOR POOR-RATES,

This claim was to have come before the Westminster
Petty Sessions yesterday morning. It appears that the
parish of St. Martin had always rated Marlborough House
while in the possession of Prince Leopold, and twat no
objection was ever made to the payment of the rates. Upon
his ascending the throne of Belgium Marlborough House re-
mained " void" for some time. It then, as is well known,
came into the possession of the Queen Dowager, and the parish
applied at the proper time for the rates. Payment was objected
to, unless the parish would accept the sum claimed as a dons-
tion--this the parish declined. Sergeants Taddy and Mere-
wether were consulted, and their opinion is said to be, that the
Queen Dowager, having been wife to the King of these realms,
bas not so far lost her prerogative by his demise as to be liable
to be rated as a subject. The parishes authorities, however,
argue that the Queen Dowager must be either a Queen or a
subject ; and that, in their opinion she cannot in this matter be
considered other than as a subject of Queen Victoria. Thus
the question rested for several days, but the parish having rea-
son to believe that there was no objection on the part of the
Queen Dowager to pay the amount claimed, provided the point
at issue was left unprejudiced, a meeting of the parochial
board was held, and they came, it is stated, to a resolution to
the following effect :—" That an entry shall be made in the
parish books that the Queen Dowager has paid 1041. on ac-
count of poor-rates, but that her Majesty's name shall not be
inserted in the rate-book ; this arrangement to be without
rjudice to the Queen Dowager or the parish, if either party
at any time think proper to assert the rights they each claim."
Her Majesty, it is believed, does not object to pay, upon
these terms, the sum claimed; and that it is probable that her
Majesty's legal advisers will recommend her to accede to them.
The parish of St. Martin made a claim somewhat similar to
the above upon the Princess Augusta, in respect of apartments
occupied by her in St. James's Palace. The claim was re-
sisted, and the parish was defea, ed, St. James's being one of
' the royal palaces.

Another claim made by the authorities was to rate the grass
in the G:een Park—this the)' established, the park being let
out to an individual for the purpose of brazing cattle.
The authorities next endeavoured to ( stablish a claim to tax
the ground in the enclosure in St. James's Park, pa►t of it
being let out for the grazing of shecp. This they failed in,
as the profits go to the Treasuiy, through the Woods and
Forests ; in the prezeding case the land is let for individual
profit.

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DISTRESS IN SHETLAND.—11l the letter on this
subject in The Sun of yesterday, the word " calculated" is by mistake
Th e question
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printed for " collected." The extract from the letter of the Secretary of
full report
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the London Committee to the Edinburgh Committee, on the subject
of education should run thus:—"
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great Birmingham meeting. With the exception of The
hundred thousand
odium un the objects of the meeting ; but the fact of
itself gives importance to the " Demonstration." The immense
ftb:l
the:,ww el ieiktlsi Natio:ealtlitalcekt ,tocoaffid Petition,vi,arni
comprised
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peisons. That the meeting must have great weight with the country,
however some patties may affect to despise it, there can be no doubt;
:Alla the peaceable, order.y, and admirable conduct of such an immense
body of men, affords matter for contemplation to the statesman and phi-
losopher.—Brighlon Palritg.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

WESTERN CIR C UlT.—DEvizEs, Ava. 13.

CROWN COURT.— William Watson was indicted for bigamy.
Mr. HODGES conducted the case for the prosecution ; and
Mr. BALL appeared for the prisoner.
It appeared that the prisoner married in 1828 at Liverpool •
that in consequence of embarrassments he afterwards left
Liverpool, taking his wife with him, and taking up their abode
at St. Alban's; they shortly after wrote to her mother to fetch
her, which she did, and there never had been any communi-
cation between the parties since. In 1836 the prisoner mar-
ried again at Bristol,but it was not till lately that it had come
to the knowledge of the pirents of the first wife.
Mr. BALL took an objection, that, as the prisoner bad not
been proved to have been aware of his first wife being living
within seven years, he could not be convicted; and he cited
the case of " The Queen v. Disney," Central Criminal
Court, January, 1838.
Mr. Baron PARKE thought this conclusive, and directed the
Jury to acquit the prisoner.
George Thorn was indicted for stealing a quantity of
bristles and a brush, the property of his master, John Wilkins,
at Trowbridge.
Mr. Smith and Mr. Slade conducted the case for the pro-
secution, and Mr. Bingham and Mr. Bere appeared for the
prisoner, who was a very respectable young man.
The evidence for the prosecution was this—that the prisoner
was in a confidential employment in the service of the prose-
cutor, receiving a salary of 1001. a-year, and under an agree-
ment to have 50 per cent. upon the profits when they
amounted to a certain sum. That after the prisoner had been
in the service four years some suspicion attached to him, and
in consequence the prosecutor caused a few bristles to be tied
in a particular manner, and also poured some lavender-water
over a small quantity of the bristles and hair. These bundles
were missed on the following day, and the prisoner was seen
putting a small bundle into his pocket. The prisoner's house
was then searched, and the bristles and hair were found in
some drawers in his bed-room. All this happened on the 2d
and 3d of April. On the 19th of May, a small bit of paper
was picked up under a desk in the prosecutor's shop, on which
was a small account in the prisoner's handwriting, in which he
had charged himself with these articles, and it was proved
that he had sometimes purchased articles of the prosecutor.
The papers in the prisoner's possession at the gaol were then
searched, and a letter written to a young girl, of the name of
Margaret Rymer, who was engaged to the prisoner, was found.
A portion of this sheet of paper was torn off, and upon comper-
ing the memorandum with that sheet they were found exactly
to correspond ; and this letter had been received by the prisoner
in the gaol.
Mr. Bieonem, haying addressed the jury for the prisoner,
resting his defence upon the intention of the prisoner to have
accounted for the articles, called witnesses; and Tilt he called
Margaret Rymer, an exceedingly nice well-spoken-girl, who
had sat by the side of the prisoner's dock the whsle time, and
at whose expense it was understood the defence was got up.
She was put in the box, and she stated at the time of tLe ap.
prehension of the prisoner he had given her some letter-paper.
Teat sometime at, er she was writing to the prisoner, and after
writing on the one side she observed the paper bad been torn,
but she had sent it as it was. That-she bad told her father of
it at the moment ; and when she heard that the memorandum
was found, she had thought about it, and the feet of the muti-
lated sheet of I steer crossed her mind, and she called the cir-
cumstances to her father's recollection.
The witness underwent a very long cross-examination both
by the prosecutor's counsel and by the Judge. She could not
state the time when the circumstance had come to her recol-
lection—whether it was a week or two months ago she could
not say. She had folded the letter up in a manlier she de-
scribed, but then part of the writing inside could be seen; it
was enclosed in a parcel. (This letter stated that it was
accompanied by a piece of bride-cake, and a pair ,of wedding
gloves (her sister's wedding), and the writer stated that he
had better return the gloves to her, as she wished them to be
first worn upon an important occasion (their own wedding) ;
she added, that the party were extremely happy on that day,
hut how different were her feelings ! The letter was written
to she prisoner when be was in gaol upon this charge.
The father of this young woman stated, that he recollected
his daughter saying she had written a letter upon a sheet of
paper that was torn, and that at a subsequent period she had
called the circumstance to his recollection.
Several witnesses were called, who not only stated the
prsonei's character to have been good, but that it was excrn-

Mr. Baron PARKE having summed up, the Jury in a few
minutes found a verdict of Guilty, but recommended him to
mercy on account of his good character.
M. South sai 1 there was another indictment against the
priioner for ernhczzlement.
Mr. Baron PARKE said it was a very bad case, and he would
defer judgment till the morning.
The trial lastel till 11 o'clock at night.
The attention cf Miss Rymer to the prisoner, and the in-
structions slle was continually giving to her attornies, and the
cairn manner in which she gave her evidence, created unusual
int ~rc st.

DREADFUL FIRF. IN TUE CITY.—For several
hours this morning the eastern portion of the city was in a state of
alarm be a fire breaking out on the premises of Mr. King upholsterer
and cabinet-maler, in Camomile.street, Bishopseate-street. The fire
must have been smouldering for a considerable period before actually
seen, so that there was no time to conorni:nicate intelligence of it before
the horizon was illuminated to such a degree that it was visl'e from a
great distance. The scene that presented itself when the discovery
was magic, which took place about half-past twelve o'clock, was ex-
ceeding'y distressing, and excited the sympathy of every one pre-
sent : females were rushing out of the buildings adjacent to the
one on fire almost in a state of nudity, having no other covering than
their night habiliments ; goods and furniture of every description
were thrown out into the s• reel: and soon destroyed or stole n. Under.
neath the workshops and show rocros of Mr. King were stables,
tenanted by Mr. Mack:non and Mr. White, butchers ; in them were
several horses and twenty sheep. The work of destruction was
ainazingly rapid. It was not until near half past two o'clock in the
meriting that the flames couldbe said to be get under. It was reported
that the entire property is insured in one of the London fire offices to
the full arneunt of tip -e darange. There are several houses in Came-
mi'e-street much injured by fire, by the hose of th a engines being taken
throug,, and by the removal of their contents, It gives 113 much
gratification to state that no human lives were lost.
_ _ _

A few days ago a clerk in the Bank of England
made, in the hurry uf businrss, a mistake which placed him in some
tiqnculty. A person handed him a 1001. note and a 501. note for
sovereigns. Instead of giving 150 sovereigns the clerk handed over
300 to the stranger, who waAcd off with his prize. The mistake hay-
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ing bja:) discovered in the course of the day the clerk sent for Daniel
Forres!er. 1,:ho immetliately went to the place of ad:ress mentioned or

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the face of one of the notes, and judging that the lucky stranger would
not be in haste to return the balance, proceeded v2ry cautiously in his
inquiry. At last he observed a man whose avearance answered that of
the person described to him by the loser, and walking up addressed him
by name. 'l'na man having replied to the address, Forrester suddenly
told him that the 130 sovereigns which were taken in a rnis'ake at the
Bank in the course of the morning were wante,l. " One hundred and fifty
sovere;gns a mistake :" said the honest fellow ;" I was not at the
Bank at all, and I know nothing of the sovereigns, I assure yon." " Oh,
yes you do," said Forrester, " you received 300 ins'ea.l of ;50, and
you must come with me." "I do assure you," persi,tl the man,
" that I received no more than 150. I admit I was at the Bank, but I
got no more than I was entitled to." I am sorry to hear you say so,"
observed Forrester, " for what is now considered at the bank as merely
a mistake, will soon be called by another name, and treated differently."
They had not walked far together towards Cornhill, when the man sud-
denly started and raid, " God bless me; now I recollect that I did
receive more than I ought." " I thought you'd remember it at last, sir,"
said the officer, " although I was afraid you wouldn't be able to make
the discovery without my assistance." The 130 sovereigns were soon
refunded, to the very great delight of the hank clerk, and the worthy
person whose hope of plunder was thus disappointed, but whose name
and address we regret we have not been supplied with, was allowed to
walk away. It appears that he was to have sailed for Arn,:rica in the
evening, and the officer, upon inquiring at the house where he lodged,
was told that no person of the name that was mentioned resded there.

Yesterday evening an inquest was held at the Crown
Tavern, ClifThrd's Inn passage, Fleet-street, on the body of John
aged 59, whose death occurred under circumstances of great misery and
destitution. It apreetred from the evidence that about three weeks
hack the deceased, his wife, and daughter, a girl about twelve years of
age, took a room in a house in Hen and Chicken-court, St. Dunstan's.
The deceased on taking the lodging, informal his landlord, Mr. Shop.
herd, t hat he was a carpenter and in week. During the List week the
deceased and his family were not, seen or heard cf. On Saturday the
suspicion of the other lodgers oeing excited, they went to the landlord,
who caused the door of tite deceased's room to be burst open, when the
deceased, his wife and child, were discovered lying on the floor nearly in
a state of nudity, and quite insensible. The man, in fact, was on the
eve of dissolution. The room was entirely destitute of furniture, fuel,
and food. Mr. Shepherd instantly caused the attendance of Mr. Carman,
the relieving officer of the West London Union, to which the ward is at-
tached, and subsequently Mr. Dunn, the surgeon of the ward, was sent
for, but before his arrival the deceased expired. Mr. Dunn succeeded
in bringing the poor woman and child round, and they are now in a fair
way of recovery. The deceased had never applied to the Union for re-
lief. The girl was examined, and she said that her father and mother
had expressed their determination to die rather than apply for relief.
Verdict—" Natural death by fever, accelerated by want."
OPIUM VENDERS OF CONSTANTINOPLE.—
'-Talking of drinking and (tramming, put me in mind of the opium-eaters,
on a number of whom the Sultan played a capital trick some time back.
He was passing through a quarter of the city where they sold the
noxious drug, and the thought struck him that as the father of his peo-
ple he was bound to put a stop to so pernicious a practice ; so, without
more ado, he pulled down all the shops, over the site of which I have
several times had the honour of walking, and sent every single soul he
itrund in them to the mad-house, which happens to be close by, and there
they remained with iron collars round their necks and chained to the
walls for two or three months, at the end of which time his sublime
Highness let them out on their solemn promise never to go mad any
more.—Three Months' Leave.
POOR-LAW RIOTS AT DEWSBURY.—A serious
-riot occurred at Dewsbury on Monday, in connection with the introduc-
tion of the new Poor-law. A violent and lawless mob drove the guard_
Sans out of the room in which they were sitting, and committed great
viol2nce on the persona of two of them. It is stated in the Bradford
,Observer, that, prior to these riotous
p
=speeches had been delivered by Mr. Fearrmedings,
guse very inflammatory
=speeches and Mr. Oastler,y
who urged the populace to prevent by force the introduction of the new
law. If this statement should be well founded, we trust the law officers
of the Crown will take speedy cognizance of the conduct of these mis-
chievous agitators. Up to a certain point, we think Government has
been wise in disregarding their effusions ; but when incitements to vio-
lence are followed by actual outrage, the time for forbearance is gone
tby ; and whatever may be done in the way of punishing the actual
rioters, we trust that those by whom they have been stimulated to crime
—if any such there are—will not be suffered to escape with impunity.
—Manchester Guardian.
Miers, the common informer, attended at Hatton'
garden yesterday to support an information against a beer-shop keeper,
for suffering gambling in his house. He called witnesses, every one of
whom, however, protested that he knew nothing of the matter. The
magistrates thought they had been bribed to silence, and ordered them
n be turned out of the office.

EMBEZZLEMENT.—A young man named Wilson,
late a clerk in the employment of Mr. Sweet, bookseller, of Chan-
cery-lane, was yesterday committed fur trial from Guildhall, on a
charge of receiving the amount of several bills due to his master
without the authority of the latter.