The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-20 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The weather is evidently not without its effect upon our
Tory Contemporaries. Clouds are gathering in the news-
papers as well as in the heavens, nor could the gloomiest
November fog be more dense or impenetrable than is the
meaning of those cheerless predictions which are uttered
by the Times, the Standard, and our twaddling old friend
the Herald. " The crisis is at hand," says the Standard.
" The State will become rotten," says the Herald, " and
the abandoned interests of the noblest and greatest em-
pire on earth become past saving." " Strike now or—
never," roars the Times. " Let the Queen's Government
at once extend and invigorate the activity of the dock-
yards, put on more hands (a genuine Tory recipe), pre-
pare more ships, open a rendezvous for seamen at every
port, send out reinforcements of sailors, an increase of
guns," &e. • but, above all things, do not intrust " the
wooden walls of Old England to the care of the members of
the Whig aristocracy—minions of a Court where fa-
vouritism rages with such extreme indecency." Purge
oar navy of all such incumbrances as these, and
supply their places with " weather-beaten veterans"
(Tories of course), and then let not a moment
be lost in declaring war. The immediate cause of
all this valiant expenditure of ink is to be found, as well as
as we can discern it, in the intelligence contained in some
recent letters from Constantinople. It is said that the
Russian Minister bad addressed a note to the Sultan,

arrogance, the Autocrat has presumed to threaten a war
with Turkey should that power ratify the treaty lately
signed with England. Such a threat admits of no second
interpretation. It is a plain declaration of war against
England ; and whether the Ottoman Porte Vow to the
the menace, or submit, England must prepare at once, and
upon a . scale commensurate with her rank and the impor-
tance of the objects in peril, to vindicate her insulted honour.
Prompt and extensive preparation will probably avert a
war ; but even if the madness of the Court of St. Peters-
burgh, and its vain reliance upon the O'Connellites and
Canadian rebels render the calamity inevitable, the contest
will be brief, unexpensive, and on our side successful, in the
exact proportion of the promptitude and extent of prepara-
tion. Economy at the commencement of such a straggle
is the most insane pred:gality in the end."
We need scarcely sta'c that we quote these observations
from the columns of cur Co:itemporarieswith the greatest sa-
tisfiction, opposed as we are, and have ever been, in politics

—first, because we were the first to denounce the aggressions
of Russia, and to demand t.prestion to them from the British
Government—secontily,beeau se subsequenteventshave justi-
fied our view ofthe matter—andldstly, because all party feeling
aside, we find every independent Paper coming forward in
the same cause. From the Morning chronicle and the
Globe—tied down as they arc by Trt.asury mandates—we
expected nothing, and eotl.ieg is to be seen in their co-
lumns ; but if their s..lence be symptomatic of the feel-
ings of the Government, we unhesitatingly add, that the
Government that can dcubt e here not only the game is in
its hands, but where the henour and interests of the coun-
try are concerned, is ond:s...rving of support. Never did
a Foreign Minister of Eagland have such a splendid oppor-
tunity of immortalising hitnself in the annals of his country
as Lord Palmerston now has—never was a Foreign Minis-
' ter so abused for pursuing a false and ineffective policy,
and such a happy occasion of proving the falsehood of the
charge. And if he do not now prove true to himself, to
the honour, and the interests of Britain, there is no reputa-
tion too mean, too low, ton coittemptible, which ought not

prising him that the ratification of the treaty with England
would be regarded as a declaration of war with Russia.
This we do not believe. We do not think that Russia
would commit herself by the adoption of such a course.
Had she done so, it is not unreasonable to suppose that our
Government would have received the intelligence of it.
But they have not. In fact the thing seems so highly
improbable that we attach no credit to it. That
Russia will not permit the treaty ,to be ratified
without straining every nerve to prevent it is what our
Government must of course be prepared for ; but the
sending of such a menace to the Sultan is a step
which, if taken at all, would be taken only in the very
last extremity. The true object, however, with which
this newspaper tocsin has been sounded is not to call
up a spirit of patriotic resistance to the aggression which
we are told is menaced by 'Russia. No. It is to summon
the Tory recruits to what is their " nationll struggle"—
the struggle for the possession of the Treasury benches.
All depends, we are told by the Standard, on an "early
change in the Administration." Here we have at once
the means and the end. The promptitude and the
decision which the Times would apply to a change in our
flock-yards the Standard would concentrate upon a
change in Downing-street. Such "a change," indeed, it
pronounces "inevitable in a few months." But then " why
forego the inestimable advantages of effecting it at once?"
Our readers are no doubt curious to know what may be
these " ine:Aimable adsantages." They may be briefly
summed up in the comprehensive phrase—a Tory Govern-
ment instead of a Whig. The purpose of all others for
which this inestimable change is to be effected is to pro-
tect Turkey from the aggressive designs of Russia. Wel-
lington and Peel and Aberdeen are to be the saviours of
the Sultan. This is certainly a comprehensive idea of re-
tributive justice. By no Ministers could reparation be
more appropriately made than by those who themselves
inflicted the injury. To the Duke of Wellington and his
Cabinet Russia is indebted for the treaty of Adrianople
(we refer the Standard to its " able ally" the Times). To
the same Ministers Russia is indebted for the possession of
the mouths of the Danube, and for the acquisition of the
two positions which are emphatically called " the keys of
Asia Minor." And these are the men who are to be se-
lected par excellence as the protectors of Turkey. For
the peculiar satisfaction of the Standard we add ano-
ther authority to strengthen these facts, and to show, if
possible, more clearly the nature of the protection
which Turkey might expect from the Duke of Wel-
lington. Our Contemporary has too frequently relied
upon the dispatches in the Portfolio to refuse them
in evidence now. There is one, the authenticity of
which has never been questioned, in Nos. 8 and
9 of that publication, addressed by Count Pozzo di
Borgo to the Cabinet of St. Petersburg. At the
very moment that Russia was menacing the Ottoman
empire, that the occupation of Constantinople was by no
means improbable, and that Turkey was looking to the
Wellington Ministry for support, Pozzo di Borgo writes—
" We have no cause to fear an open rupture with Great
Britain ; she will content herself with counselling the Porte
to beg peace" (!) And it is to the Ministry whose conduct
so fatally justified this most degrading anticipation that we
ore again called upon to entrust the protection of the Otto-
man empire. Another " inestimable advantage" which
the Standard promises from the " immediate change" is
that the Tories would " invite, and not repel, the co-ope-
ration of the natural allies of the empire, and of Aus-
tria in particular. Now, with respect to Austria, whose
alliance would, no doubt, be of the utmost consequence
in such a conflict, let us see what better prospect we
have from the Duke of Wellington than from Lord
Palmerston. The whole British and French Press (with
the exception of the Standard, which, despite of a recent
promise to the contrary, is silent on the subject) are una-
nimous in ascribing the most beneficial and important re-
sults to the treaty just concluded between this country
and Austria. Even the Tinos admits that it is "a pru-
dent and efficient measure, adopted under difficulties of no
ordinary sort ;" that it is calculated to "quash a projected
invasion of Turkey, without spilling a drop of blood ;"
that it opens to us the whole course of the Danube, and
establishes England in close observation of every minute

to be in store for him. We agree with our Morning Con-
temporary—" Strike now or never uphold the honour
of England, or be for ever Irst in her just indignatioa.—
Morning Advertiser.
The intelligence 1.,e,-i‘ed yesterday from Malta makcs
it abundantly clear that, instead of having " recommenced
those experiments of intimidations upon the Sultan Mah-
moud which on former occasions have been attended with
consequences so ruhions to the best interests of Turkey,
and so alarming for the equilibrium and the repose of
Europe," the Court of St. Petersburgh has very recently
made the discovery, and begun to act upon it, that those
experiments would, in pr. s-nt circumstances, be equally
foolish and abortive, and that they might even prove, in
some degree, dangcrous to the Power that attempted
them. The letters from Malta, which are to the 4th inst.,
state that her Majesty's steamer the Rhadamanthus had
arrived there, bring;mr, despatches from Sir R. Stopford.
This vessel left the Admiral cn the 26th ult., on which day
the British squadron was still at Ourlac. On the following
day (the 27th) the Piinerss Charlotte, the Minden, the
Vanguard, and the Alia were to sail for Malta, touching
at Paros. The Bellfrophon was to return to Athens.
The Rodney, the 7'ct/areth, and the Pembroke (the two
first having just joined the flat t) were to continue with the
Capitan Pacha until the return of the Ottoman fleet to
Constantinople. The three last-named vessels, it was ex-
pected, would spend the winter at Smyrna. On the 26th
of October Sir Roburt Stopford and all the Captains of
the British fleet were invited to dinner on board the
Turkish Admiral's vessel. The entertainment is described
as having been of more than usual magnificence, and the
most perfect cordiality is said to have reigned between the
officers of both nations. The Capitan Pacha presented Sir
Robert Stopford with a pipe richly set with jewels. Com-
mander Walker, of the Vanguard, is said to have been in-
vited by the Capitan Pacha, to take the command of a
Turkish ship of the line, the Sultan Mahmoud, of 130
guns. The invitation, it was believed, would be accepted,
as soon as the permission of the British Government had
been obtained. The temporary separation of a part
of the British fleet from that of the Porte, attended
with such circumstances as are here described, will be
taken, we imagine, as r ery conclusive evidence, not only
that " the experiments of intimidation" above mentioned
had wholly ceased, but that the apprehension of their being
speedily recommenced had also been entirely banished from
the minds both of the Sultan and of Lord Ponsonby. The

last " experiment of intimidation," we believe, was that of
which the British Ambassador at Constantinople apprised.
his Government in a dispatch dated the 13th ult., the prin-
cipal contents of which we bad the satisfaction of commu-
nicating to our readers on the 6th of the present month.
On becoming aware of this " experiment of intimidation,"
Lord Ponsonby, as we informed the public a fortnight ago,
adopted the very obvious and simple course of sending
" pressing instructions to the British Admiral at Vourla to
hold the fleet in readiness for eny emergency that might
arise." This order to the British Admiral, which we may
venture to surmise Lord Ponsonby did not take particular
pains to conceal from anybody who had the least pretension
to make an inquiry upon the subject, utterly defeated the
" experiment of intimidation" then in progress. The order
seems, indeed, to have effected even more than this—to
have extinguished, at least for the present, whatever hope
might have been entertained of the success of any fresh
experiment of the same kind. Subsequently to Lord Pon-
sonby's order no such experiment has, we believe, been
made ; no such experiment has, we believe, been expected.
—Morning Post.
Having laid before our readers a sketch of the system of
crime in the metropolis, as prevalent 20 years ago, and as
existing under the New Police force, we must now treat of
a kindred subject—the extensive practice of street-beggary,
with its attendant frauds, distinguishing from them that
class of cases and claims which are referable only to mis-
fortune. Colowel Row:in, one of the Commissioners of
Police, strongly exhorts the public to abstain from the in-
discriminate gift of alms in the streets, which encourages
this mock patperism. The charity which is disposed to
relieve immediate want will bestow itself most advan-
tageously through the channel of the Society for the Sup-
pression of Mendicity, an admirable institution, founded
about the end of the last century by the benevolent exer-
tions of Mr. Matthew Martin, which inquires into the cha-
racters and circumstances of street beggars, and dispenses
relief with a degree of knowledge and system unattainable
by individual alms-givers. Subscribers are furnished with
tickets, which maybe used by themselves and their friends,
and presented to beggars instead of money. Worthy ob-
jects of distress repair with these tickets to the Society's
office, and are assisted according to the nature of their
wants ; impostors, fearing detection, throw the tickets
into the kennel. Of course, however, there will still re-
main some cases in which it will be not only objectionable,
but actually necessary, to give direct relief in money, as
on sudden accidents, or where destitute persons are found
unsheltered in an inclement night. In these cases there is
no time for application to the Mendicity Society. Our be-
nevolent readers, we are sure, would be much interested
by perusing the whole of the evidence given to the Com-
mittee of the last session by Mr. Knevitt, the Society's
assistant-manager. Its length prevents us from inserting it
in full ; but we proceed to give an outline of its most im-
portant contents. To some of the London beggars, parti-
cularly the blind, their infirmities are a fortune, but a for-
tune which is, of course, ill spent. More than half of the
blind beggars of the metropolis are known to the
police as bad characters, and one of them has been
repeatedly conticted cf keeping a brothel. Some of the
most notorious vagrants are females. There is a one-eyed
girl named Brady, who has been in prison from 20 to 30
times within the last years. She spends more than
half her time there. The moment she comes out she re-
sumes her trade of begging. She is to be found from time
to time in all parts of the town, but one of her most favou-
rite resorts is St. Jamrs's-squa-e. The pursuit is a very
profitable one : a skilful beggar is sometimes apprehended
with one, two, three, or four pounds about him. The
greater
whatever.the ra
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he sits up with a paper before 'b
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trates, on various occasions, sentfor; the father, have poor ;'
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spentalf- a
went-
to the play andb took
some bHoyes and girls with him. This boy
ihas not een ink
prison less than twenty times within the ast three years."
A blind man was recently threatened with a commitment
to prison, unless he would go to the workhouse and stay
there.tb
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His plea was, that his daughter was out of place.
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another,
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She was a decent;
of going out with her" ler, and leading him from one
in the neighbourhood, explained to the father, he
was leading the girl into tem
ptation ; being blind he could
not see what she was
in." There is less begging ct;'norswahat company she was
day, a difference eceasifned nthdeay than any other
which is reaped by the beggars on the Saturday
harvest
on night
from good-natured people, chiefly women, •
going to market,
The notorious Quin, "'a man that •
is about London
,ahtnoft any. place.,
with a white night-cap, is generally out of a Satur-
dayg ;
night, sitting on some step pretending to be dying
the moment he is re. unizel by anybody who knows him,
c
he takes to his heel, • fist as most men in Lon-
don ; he is now in re 4 *1: the beggars have their days
in the week, they have the .r reasons in the year. In June,
when London begins to get thin, a great number of them

movement executed by Russia along the northern fron-
tier of the dominions of Mahmoud." Pray, is this
" to repel" instead of " to invite the co-operation of
Austria ?" Let us now see how the Duke of Welling-
ton " invited the co-operation of our natural allies,"
when he was called upon to rescue Turkey from
the fangs of her deadly enemy. Again we produce the
unexceptionable evidence of Count Pozzo di Borgo. The
main object of the dispatch to which we have before ad-
verted is to inform the Imperial Cabinet of the disposi-
tions entertained by the different European Powers to-
wards Russia at the close of the first campaign against
Turkey, when the success of the war was at least pro-
blematical. The object of Austria at this time was to
" invite the co-operation" of England, France, and Prussia
to intervene between Russia and Turkey. To accomplish
this the dispatch represents Prince Metternich as making
the most strenuous exertions. He assured the Duke of
Wellington that he had secured Prussia, and entrusted to
his Grace the task of securing the co-operation of France.
France, however, was not " invited" (though Charles X.
was on the throne), Austria was " repelled," and the Tory
Cabinet " contented itself with counselling the Porte to
beg peace!" According to the Standard, we are now in
" a crisis" resembling, as near as possible, that of 1828 ;
and the only intelligible object we can see in restoring the
same Cabinet to power is, that they may again be " con-
tented with counselling the Porte to beg peace."—Morning
Chronicle.

We stated yesterday that it afforded us peculiar gratifi-
cation to witness " the unanimity of spirit which prevailed
in the breasts of British subjects when the honour, the dig-
nity, or the interests of Great Britain" are concerned ; an
we gave as an instance the sturdy and hearty support
afforded by the Times in behalf of the me3sures recently
adopted by her Majesty's Ministers, and of the policy which
it is at once their interest and their duty to pursue ; but
we were assuredly not prepared either for such a singular
coincidence of opinion as is evinced by the following quo-
tations, or for the able observations of the Standardonthesame subject
Advertiser.—" Let Lord Palmerston have no fears about
him with regard to the language which he ought to hold
out to Russia. Delenda est Carthago—is the motto of
every British-born subject on this point ; and he will greatly
fail in credit to himself, and justice to his country, if he do
not act upon it."
Times.—" There is not an Englishman of ever such in-
veterate Radicalism in his views of domestic policy,
who would dream of withholding the most ample
supplies to the Queen's Ministers for the commence-
ment or prosecution of a war against the semi-bar-
barous, but insidious, Court of Russia. There is not
a faction in the whole British Empire, save that unre-
deemed and incorrigible one which has so long been insti-
gated by O'Connell and the Popish priests of Ireland, that
would not receive to-morrow, with hearty exultation, the
tidings that to facilitate the execution of our commercial
treaties in the Euxine, we had signed to-morrow morning a
triple political alliance for defensive purposes between
Austria, Turkey, and Great Britain, The game is in
Lord Palmerston's hands, if he can but play it. Austria
has no less reason than Turkey herself to fear the aggran-
disement of Russia south of the Danube, and by her posi-
tion, organization, and resources, she has ten times the
means enjoyed by Turkey of turning such advantages to
the discomfiture of the common enemy. We say to Lord
Palmerston—strike now, or never.
The Standard.—" The Czar, believing that in duping
and intimidating the Statesmen of England, and it,
promoting a certain amount of noisy discontent among the
English people, and the provincial and col°, ial population
of the empire, he has overreached and weakened the Bri-
tish nation, now precipitately stretches out his hand to
grasp the fruit of fraudulent labour. But lie will be dis-
appointed ; he has to learn, and he will learn it, whoever
may be the Minister of England, that the wisdom of our
ancestors' has not left England at the mercy of statesmen
or of factions—that the founders of our free constitution
have left to the people, generally abstracted from any care
for :the details of politics, the ultimate determination of
the fate of their country, and with the power to determine,
the power also, and the will to determine for its safety
and honour. It is said that in the plenitude of his

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1838

leave town for the watering-places. They travel on foot,
with their families, begging as they go, and lodging for the
most part in houses about the outskirts of towns. In
London there are lodgings at all prices, from twopence to
sixpence per bed, according to the accommodation. In
some places they sleep three or four in a bed, with several
beds in a room ; the lodging-rooms being all locked, and the
landlord and landlady usually sleeping in an apartment close
to the street door. The best test fur distinguishing real from
feigned distress is found, by the Mendicity Society, to be the
willingness to work. In order to obtain money-relief with-
out working, sickness is often counterfeited. " Only this
morning," says Mr. Knevitt, " a woman came with her child.
I asked where her husband was. She said he was very ill
in the hospital. I asked her what hospital. She said the
North London Hospital. I asked what was the matter
with him. She said he had a fractured thigh. I asked
what ward he was in. She said in the accident ward.
Not being satisfied with the answers she made, I told her I
would send an officer up with her to the hospital to see
her husband. She changed colour. I said, 1 can see
clearly your husband is not there." Why,' she said,
'he is not : he has been in, he now is out: She was
sent down stairs, and absconded directly." For the purpose
of inquiringinto the numerous cases which present themselves,
the society keep a clerk, who examines the applicants from a
printed list of questions, and, after taking their answers in
writing proceeds to their lodgings and other places of refer-
ence, to ascertain their characters and silt their stories.
While the investigation is pending they receive food for
each member of the family, and money enough to provide
them all with lodging at night. This is the general course ;
but sometimes, when very inclement weather sets in, the
applicants are too numerous to allow the possibility of
examination into each individual case, and then a selection
of cases is made for inquiry. The Society has a stone-yard
and a mill, where the men arc put to work, and rooms wh,re
the women and elder children are employed in pickinc,
oakum. The younger children are kept in a separate part of
the room. The Society's premises were increased during
the severity of the last winter, when many thous knd persons
were employed and sheltered from the weather. In many
cases, the poor, thus relieved are sent home by waggon to
their parishes ; in others, they are provid4d for only till
they find work elsewhere. When
*parties have fallen into
distress without fault of their own, and arc found to be
very deserving, money relief is given, sometimes to the
amount of several pounds ; or flannel and clothing.
These articles, however, arc often pawned ; for, with all
the inquiry possible, there is necessarily a great deal
of deception ; but the balance of good is incalculable.
A poor person is seldom sent away without food. Those
who are kept at work receive bread and nutritious soup
or cheese ; and at the stone-yard, the labour being hard,
the men get a supper in addition. Those whose health
appears to be suffering are never put to work ; they are
sent to an hospital or infirmary, or provided with medical
advice ; and, in some cases, those who have been overtaken
by misfortune are relieved at their own houses, through a
visiting officer of the Society. The applications of last
winter, which were increased by the rigour of the weather
to a greater number than they had ever reached before,
were chiefly from a class of people not previously known to
the Society—men who had been frozen out of their work
at the docks and on the banks of the river. Many were
thus discharged by their employers for six weeps and two
months. There was no work, and they could get no re
One
ey
Saturdayresided, bethcaeusseoctileretyy
-
in
ewreh.ich
liefhad fromno
settlements parishes
relieved nearly 1,400 families, and gave away 6,000
meals. " You do not consider the Society, even in the
most inclement weather, is open to the charge of under-
taking an office which they cannot adequately discharge ?
Decidedly not. You are enabled to do that, I conclude,
by the benefactions of the public increasing in proportion to
the application you make ?—I always find an appeal to the
public has been responded to by the public during the five
years I have belonged to the office." It gives us great gra-
tification to be hereby the means of rendering this Society
(and its humane objects more generally known, and of point-
ing out to our charitable readers a channel in which their
bounty may be permitted to flow with the least possible
danger of misapplication or abuse. We have thus pre-
sented an outline of the principal subjects with which the
Metropolitan Police has to deal, from the hardened felon
to the sufferer whom distress has driven into the streets.
We shall next have to consider the constitution of the po-
lice itself, and the means by which it may be brought most
efficiently to bear upon the suppression of vice, the relief of
wretchedness, and the security of person and property.—
Times.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Nor. 15.
DENT V. BENNET.

This is a bill to set aside an agreement under which
the late Mr. Jonathan Dent, of Winterton, in the county
of Lincoln, stipulated for the services of the defendant,
as his medical adviser durirg his life, on the condition of
paying a sum of twenty-five thousand pounds at his death.
Mr. Dent was, it appeared, a Quaker, of eccentric
habits ; his pleasure was to amass money, and lie lived in
a very retired manner, with two servants, one of whom
compounded his medicines under the advice and with the
assistance of Mr. Bennet, who is a surgeon living in Bar-
ton-on-Humber. Among other peculiarities Mr. Dent
had a great dislike to any payments for medicine and at-
tendance; and his nephews, knowing this peculiarity, and
desirous to avoid any subject of irritation, paid Mr. Ben-
net forty pounds, for medicine and attendance for three
years up to 1829. In that year it is alleged that Mr.
Dent voluntarily offered to enter into the agreement in
dispute, for the purpose of securing Mr. Bennet's profes-
sional services, and as a reward for saving his life in a se-
vere illness. It is not alleged, however, that Mr. Dent's
solicitor or any of his family were consulted on the propriety
of the proceeding. Mr. Dent was eighty-six years of age
when this agreement is alleged to have been entered into ;
he lip el till h was linet: , and six manths after his death
Bennet sent a polite note to the ex ,cutors, requesting them
to hand over to him the 25,000/. mentioned in the agree-
ment. The executors, who had heard nothing of this trans-
action from the deceased, refused payment. Mr. Bennet
commenced an Action at law, but the Vice-Chancellor, in
December, 1835, granted an injunction to stay this
proceeding, and the cause now comes on for hearing on
the merits.

EXTRAORDINARY FiiT.--OnThursday week,
an individual named Nicholson, residing
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feet
he was to run a steeple chase of two miles against a horse
that was bought at Brough Hill Fair, for the exorbitant
sum of 7s. 6d. The first part of the undertaking, as our
readers may readily suppose, came of swimmingly. Many
bets were depending on the issue of this disgusting match,
which was won by " the Marquis" in a very superior style.
—Lancaster Guardian.
Notwithstanding the adjustment of the difference
which Las for the last three months existed between the
Kensington Magistrates and the Commissioners of Police,
the police charges have been carried all the way to Queen-
square until Saturday, when they were for the first time
taken before Sir John Scott Lillie, Mr. Codd (of Wor-
ship-street police-office), and Mr. Pilkington, the sitting
Magistrates, at the new justice-room appointed by the
Bench, No. 3, Kensington-square, where the sittings will
in future be continued at nine o'clock every morning. The
whole of the cases were, however, deficient of public inter
rest, except a large number of summonses, under the local
Act, against persons for suffering their dogs to be at large
without being muzzled or confined by a string, &c.
Among the number were Lady Whitbread, Captain Brett,
and other respectable individuals, who all pleaded igno-
rance of the law, which imposes a penalty not exeeding
and they were each fined in mitigated amounts, varying
from Is. to 10s. and costs.
THREE LIVES LOST.—A most shocking and
fatal accident occurred on Tuesday evening last at Old
Park, Shropshire. A young man, named Maddox, in re-
turning home with a horse and cart was drowned in the
Canal at that place ; by what means he was immersed in
the water is unknown ; he was found under the cart at the
bottom of the Canal, with the horse also drowned attached
to it. He was accidentally discovered by a boy passing,
who perceived the wheels of the cart projecting from the
water, and although there were many persons residing
within a few yards of the spot, no alarm was given. On
Wednesday night another melancholy affair occurred in the
same canal, a short distance from the same place ; a
man and his wife were both drowned. It appeared that
a quarrel took place between the parties, when the woman
left the house with the view of proceeding to the residence
of one of her neighbours ; her husband followed, when she
was heard to say that if he persisted in following her she
would jump into the canal ; she put her threat into exe-
cution, and he immediately did the same, and both were
lost.— Cambrian. _ _

Mr. K. BRUCE contended that the agreement was one
which the Court could not sanction. It was an extremely
doubtful matter whether the signature, Jonathan Dent, at
the foot of the agreement, was in the handwriting of the
deceased.'" There were credible witnesses who swore it was
not. That was one of the objections to the defendant's
claim. The second was, that even supposing the defendant
had, by undue influence and misrepresentation, persuaded
the old man to put his hand to such a document, still it was
one that on the ground of public policy could not receive
the sanction of that Court, because it was holding out a
reward and a premium to a medical man to shorten the
He of his patient. The third ground of objection was that
a person claiming in this manner, in the character of the
medical adviser oan infirm old man, must be able to show
a case fl-ee from the shadow of suspicion.
Mr. WIGRAM, for the defendant, commenced' by ob-
serving that this had been a most unfortunate busin'ess for

Mr. Bennet, as the attempt to establish his right bad
ruined him, and he was now defending the suit in forma
pauperis. The Vice-Chancellor had refused to allow the
matter to be tried at law, but that was, after all that had
been said, the proper method of getting at the facts of the
case. The plaintiffs imputed fraud to Mr. Bennet. Now,
Mr. Bennet was willing to go before a Jury to prove his
case and establish his character, and it was most unfortu-
nate that be was not allowed to do so, for even if the plain-
tiffs failed in their present bill, Mr. Bennet would still have
to go back to a Court of Law to recover on the agreement.
At four„ o'clock, the argument was postponed till to-
morrow. . .

VICE-CHANCELLOR'SCOURT, Nor. 19

BALDWIN V. DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY

The argument upon this motion was resumed. The
object of the present application, upon a cross bill, was to
restrain the Society from publishing the remainder of the
series of their maps through any other persons than the
trustees of Baldwin and Cradock. On a former occasion
the Society had failed in a motion for an injunction to re-
strain the trustees from continuing to publish the earlier
part of the series. That motion was founded on the con-
tracts and correspondence between the parties, which were
also the foundation of this application. The motion was
not concluded till a late hour.

His HONOUR, in giving judgment, said, before he could
consider whether the Court would specifically perform the
agreement, he must see whether there was any agreement ;
and his own opinion was, there had not yet been any dis-
tinct binding agreement between the parties ; and that it
wr.s so, the framer of the bill evidently thought, from the
constantly shifting language in which the thing called an
agreement was alluded to. On the broad ground that there
was no definite agreement, and that, if there were, it was
not such as the Court could execute, he would refuse this
speculative motion, with costs.

BAIL COURT Nov. 16.
THE QUEEN V. BRYANT.

On a former day Mr. Cockburn obtained a writ of cer-
tiorari to remove into this Court an inquisition taken be-
fore the coroner for Tiverton on the body of Sarah Fry,
a young girl who was accidentally run over by a waggon
which was driven by the defendant, and against whom the
jury returned a verdict of manslaughter. The object of
that application was, that the defendant might be admitted
to bail.

The depositions having been read by the clerk of the
Crown Office,

Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE ordered the defendant to be
admitted to bail on finding four sureties in the sum of 101.
each for his appearance to take his trial on the above charge.
Mr. COCKBURN then applied to his Lordship for a rule
to show cause why the inquisition should not be quashed.
Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE granted a rule to show cause.

ARCHES COURT,Nor. 19.
THE OFFICE OF THE JUDGE PROMOTED IN BREEES V

WOOLFREY.

This case, which has excited considerable interest, came
on for hearing this morning.
The Queen's Advocate (Sir JOHN DousoN) appeared in
support of the libels. The Learned Civilian read them at
length. They, in substance, charge Mrs. Woolfrey with
erecting a tombstone in the the churchyard of Carisbrook,
of whic church Mr. Breeks is Vicar, containing the fol-
lowing inscription from the 12th chapter of the 2d Mac-
cabees :

" Pray for the soul of Joseph Woolfrey. 'ltis a good
and wholesome thought to pray for the dead.."'

The Learned Counsel should reserve what observations
he had to offer until he had heard what was to be urged
against the libels.

Dr. Annams appeared to oppose the admission of the
libels. The libel pleaded that the inscription was contrary
to the articles agreed upon by the Convention of London
in 1562, and repugnant to the word of God ; it then went
on to state, that erecting tombstones without the previous
consent of the Vicar, or some lawful authority, was contrary
to the rules, regulations, and discipline of the Church.
These were the allegations against Mrs. Woolfrey ; and
admitting that she had acted wrong she ought not to have
been cited to appear in the Court, but admonished by civil
process, and if that had been done he (Dr. Addams)
should have advised the parties to remove the stone,
which he had no doubt would have been complied with,
and then the expense and scandal of the present proceed-
ings would have been saved. He should contend that the
insciption was not contrary to the doctrines and canons of
the Church of England, that it was not contrary to the
22d Article of the Church, on which the allegations were
founded, neither was the inscription, in his opinion, re-
pugnant to the word of God. There was not a single
word in the, Holy Scriptures about praying for the
dead. Bishop Burnett, in a work that he published on
the doctrine of purgatory, remarked that the doctrine
of purgatory was not known in the Church of God
until 600 years after the formation of that Church, but
that prayers for the dead had always been observed.
The Greek Church had never admitted the doctrine
of purgatory, although it sanctioned and admitted prayers
for the dead. Other writers clearly proved that the Roman
Catholic Church admitted prayers for the dead upwards of
three centuries before the doctrine of purgatory was pro-
mulgated, and the first Protestant Reformers admitted
prayers for the dead into their Liturgy. Bishop Wheatley
states that there were prayers for the dead in the first Pro-
testant Liturgy, and that that form was afterwards altered, as
Wheatley affirmed, out of compliment to Calvin and others.
It was afterwards altered to the words " Pray for the
whole estate of Christ's Church," for which were subse-
quently substituted the words " Church militant." In the
reign of Edward the First,the Burial Service contained a
prayer for the dead. The Learned Counsel cited the autho-
rities of many other distinguished individuals in the Church,
who stated that they did not consider praying for the dead
to be repugnant to the word of God, or
_opposed to the
discipline of the Church. of England. Mr. Strachan, the
Vicar of Islington, in his Life of Dr. Johnson, said that
Dr. Johnson, up to the time of his death, invariably
prayed for his deceased wife ; and went on, without jus-
tifying the practice, to observe that even if it was supersti-
tious, it was the most amiable of superstitions, as it proved
surviving affection for departed friends, and those we loved
on earth. In 1720 a long controversy arose amongst di-
vines as to
the propriety of omitting the prayers for the
dead contained in the Liturgy published in the reign of
Kies- Edward VI., at which it was contended very ably
that recommending the souls of the dead to the mercy of
Christ was not a relic of Popery, neither was it repugnant
to the Word of God, and that it was based on reason, as,
in the opinion of many, God would not prOnounce final
judgment on his creatures until the end of the world. In
the fourth century all the liturgies in the world contained
prayers for the dead, and he was not aware that the Church
of England condemned such prayers at any period ; they
only omitted to use them. Such being the case, he con-
fidently believed the Court would not think the present
ease was brought within the libel now sought to be ad-
mitted.

THE " TURNIP" DEMONSTRATION.—In the
Sheriff Small Debt Court, upon the 24th of October last,
Mr. Mathieson, a gardener, sued Mr. Findlay, and some
leading members of the Working Mens' Association, for
damages alleged to have been sustained by him through
the meeting assembled at the Broadhill, on the 25th of
August last, which the complainant denominated a nzob,
and by which a field of turnips, belonging to him, on or near
the hill, had been injured. The Sheriff assoilzied the de-
fenders.—Aberdeen Herald.

AWKWARD PREDICAMENT.---011 Tuesday even-
ing, while a heckler, belonging to Lochee, named Alexander
Reid, was strolling about in the Seagate, Dundee, under
the influence of the jolly god, he was joined by a soldier ;
and both eagerly proposed an adjournment to a neigh-
bouring public-house, for the purpose of cementing more
firmly their newly-horn friendship. After a deep carousal,
he of the Queen's livery persuaded the heckler to change
clothes with him, and in an instant the soldier was trans-
formed into a heckler and the heckler into a soldier ; im-
mediately after which, the real soldier disappeared, and has
not since been beard of. Shortly afterwards, the heckler,
in his red habiliments, wasrapprehended on the street, in a
state of beastly intoxication, and consigned to the police
cells, intimation of the capture being duly given at the
Barracks. The culprit was handed over to the command-
ing officer on the following morning, and was
yesterday
tried before the Justices, under the Mutiny Act, and
sentenced to pay a fine of .5/:, or undergo thirty days' impri-
sonment in Bridewell.—Ediriburgh Courant.
HARVEST.—The Weather during the past fort-
night has been cold, boisterous, and unsettled.On Sun-
day last, after a heavy fall of rain during the preceding
night, the'sky became clear and serene, with a sharp wind
from the north-east, and at night we had one of the se-
verest frosts we have experienced this season. During the
present week the sky has been unclouded throughout the
day, with a cutting easterly wind, and the nights have been
attended by severe frosts. The. distant mountains are
capped with snow, and present a a!ntry appearance. Mean
while in many elevated situations in the northern counties
stooks of grain may be seen, and in some places even
patches of oats unshorn I—Newcastle Journal.
ANOTHER MID-DAY
adjourned
been i
obtained MURDER IN MA NCH ESTER.
—The supposed-murderer( Whittel)of the travelling Scotch-
man named Henderson was committed last Friday, on
whi eh
daynguest was held. After the evi-
dence ained against Whittle had been
a which n
h
heard, the jury found a verdi.i of IYilful Murder against
him. The prisoner was accordingly committed to Kirkdale,
fur trial at the Liverpool assizes.

The Queen's Advocate (Sir JOHN DonsoN), in support

of the libel, wished, in the first instance, to assure the
Court that his client, the Rev. Mr. Breeks, in bringing
this case foritard, was not in the most remote idea actu-
ated by feelings of personal enmity against Mrs. Woolfrey ;
but he considered, as a Christian minister, who had sworn
to maintain inviolate the doctrines of the Church of Eng-
land, that it was his bounden duty to prevent, as far as in
him lay, any breach in the discipline of that Church. His
(Sir John's) duty would be to show to the Court that the
inscription in question was contrary to, and at variance
with, the existing canons and constitution of the Church
of England ; and to prove that such tombstone was
erected without obtaining leave of the Vicar of the
I Diocesan. His Learned Friend Doctor Addams said,
if so, why was not Mrs. Woolfrey admonished
to remove it, and if he (Dr. Addams) bad been applied to
for advice, he would have recommended its removal. Now,
the fact was, Mrs. Woolfrey had been frequently called
upon to remove the stone, but she positively refused to do
so, and, therefore, he considered the proper mode of pro-
ceeding against her was by articles, and not by monition.
The proceeding adopted was the only proper one, and the
only one which could have been resorted to for the purpose
of obtaining a legal authority peremptorily to order the mo-
nument to be removed. The inscription he considered
completely at variance with and contrary to the discipline
of the Church of England. The quotation, "Itis a good
and wholesome thought to pray for the dead" was taken
from 2 Mac., xii. 46. Now, he wished to inform the
Court. that the quotation was taken from the Roman Ca-
tholic edition of the Bible, and formed part of the doctrine
of the Popish Church. In the English version of the Bible
the words real different, and there was not a 46th
verse of the 12th chapter of the Second Book of Mac-
cabees. The English translation, he wished to press upon
the mini of the Court, was in different words to the
Romish version ; and the inscription was taken from that
part of the Apocrypha used by Roman Catholics in sup-
port of the doctrine of pu,g,ttory, which ,he (Sir John
D elson) contended was at total valiance with the 22d
article of the Church of England. It was impossible for
the Court to say that the erection of a tombstone with
such an inscription was not at variance with the cations
and discipline of the Established Church.
Sir HeneEtte. Jeetelea said, the Court would take time
to consider its decision, as the c ;s-, was a novel one.—
ledgment postponed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

HATTON GARDEN.

Yesterday,- Mr. George Lemon, jun., son of Mr. Leman,
coach-builder, of No. 2, Smith's-ph:cc, Gray's Inn-road,
was placed at the bar before Messrs. Rogers and Beuett
under the following circumstances.
Mr. Thomas Leman, whose head was severely injured,
resided
.at No. 2, Smith's-place, Gray's Inn-road. On
Sunday morning last, about. half-past twelve o'clock, he
returned home to his father's premises in Smith's-place,
and on entering a yard belonging to his father he saw
Hands, the constable, No. 132 G, lying on a plank under
the gateway quite drunk. Witness said, " What are you
doing there ?" On which he jumped up and said, " I will
let you know," when he dragged ,witness violently and
struck him over the head and body with his stuff. Witness
said, " My name is Thomas Leman, I live here, you know
tne." He replied," Yes, I know you," and continued beat-
ing him. Witness laid hold of the posts near the crate-
way and refused to go to the station-house, when Hands
sprung his rattle, and Bonner, No. 56, came up and struck
him a violent blow on his head with his staff and wounded
him severely. He called out " Murder," when his father,
mother, brother, and some friends came to his assistance,
and they were also beaten indiscriminately by the consta-
bles, and his brother was taken to the station-house.
Mr. ROGERS said it was a most serious case, and he
was ready to inflict the heaviest penalties upon both the
constables.

Mr. BENETT thought that Bonner required more con-
sideration than Hands, and although he would prefer send-
ing the case before a Jury at the Sessions, he would agree
to a fine if Mr. Rogers was so inclined.
Mr. BENETT and Mr. ROGERS consulted, and Hands
was convicted in the penalty of 71. and Bonner 51., and, in
default of payment, to be committed to the House of Cor-
rection. The term of imprisonment was not mentioned.
The prisoners were locked up, and prior to being taken
to the House of Correction they were stripped of their
uniform.