The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-16 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

Yesterday a Court was held, specially to consider the
Report of the Committee of the whole Court, ivt relation
to the municipal institutions of the City of London. At
a former meeting the Committee of the whole Court di-
rected an application to be made to Lord John Russell, re-
questing that he would furnish them with a copy of the
Report of the Corporation Inquiry Commissioners on the
Corporation of London at the earliest possible period, and
that he would receive a deputation to confer with him pre-
viously to the introduction of a Bill " for the repeal of the
Corporation." To this application an answer was returned,
stating that Lord John Russell would be happy to confer
with a deputation before the introduction of the Bill. No
conference, however, had ever taken place, in consequence
of the non-presentation of the Report of the Commis-
sioners ; but the Committee took into consideration the
subject of amending the municipal institutions, and agreed
to a number of resolutions comprehending the changes
which appeared to them to be necessary to be made. A
difference of opinion now arose between the gentlemen
present, as to whether or not the Report should be consi-
sidered until after the Report of the Commissioners bad
' been laid before the Council.
vided upon the question, and the postponement was
Court di-
After a long and animated conversation, the
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upon by a majority of 4 ; the numbers being for it 34,
against it 31.

Dr. Henry was the intimate friend of Lord Brougham,
from the time of their residence at Edinburgh, as students at
the university.—Shiclds Observer.
It is common practice among mercantile houses of
the first class, when bills are presented for acceptance, to ap-
pend to them a ticket stating their readiness to discount them,
and the rate at which they will do so. This has begin noticed
in the City by some persons referring to one of the most emi-
nent firms as a new occurrence, and meant to show their inde-
pendence of the Bank, but the fact does not necessarily bear
any such interpretation. It is not true, as has been stated,
that they have offered to discount such bills at 43 per cent.;
the offer was to do so at the same rate as the Bank, which now
is 5 per cent.
The engineers employed on the Midland Counties
Railway, have commenced staking out the line in the neigh-
bourhood of Leicester.—Northampton Mercury.
We learn that the Lord Bishop of the diocese has
refused to confirm the election of the Rev. J. Morley, vicar of
Aylesbury, to the chaplaincy of the Aylesbury Union, in con-
sequence of an application made a short time since by the Rev.
vicar to the bishop to be allowed a second curate, in conse-
quence of his inability justly to discharge his clerical duties
through age and growing infirmities.—Bucks Herald.
'RESIT EXPORTS EXTRAORDINARY.—On Satur-
day last a considerable quantity of Irish oak, cut on the estate
of Lord Langford, in the county Meath, was shipped on board
the Eamont for St. John's, New Brunswick, for shipbuilding.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNAL.

tions of imagination,, of gossip, or of malice, who are
reported to have censured so freely on 'Change the
proceedings of the Bank Direction, would have availed
themselves of the opportunity, which the meeting of yes-
terday afforded, to give public expression to their opi-
nions in the presence of the body whose conduct they are
said to have impeached. The public will understand on all
future occasions of the same kind how little value is to be
attached to the language of nameless members of the mer-
cantile body, however intelligent, or however important,
they may be described by those who quote them in corro-
boration of their own opinions or prejudices. It was very
properly and forcibly urged by some members of the Court,
at the meeting to which we refer, that the periodical pub-
lication, %required by law of the circulation, liabilities, and
assets of the Bank of England, can afford no information
whatever as to the actual state of the currency until similar
returns of the transactions and affairs of joint-stock and
other private banks be also supplied. It is manifestly quite
fair, and would certainly be useful, that such returns be
required. Their utility would be greatly increased, how-
ever, if they were to pass through the hands of a compe-
tent public officer, charged with the duty of arrangement
and condensation, and with that of abstractinc, from the
whole mass in some specified, invariable, and intelligible
form definite and instructive results.—Monzing Post.

The Morning Post has discovered a mare's nest in our I
observations with respect to the Tory party. We are not
aware that any one ever disputed that the great body of
the English gentry were Tories. In the House of Peers
the Tories have numbers on their side, and the Whigs pro-
perty ; for though there are several exceptions, yet the
greatest landholders are generally Whigs. We have more
than once stated that we could name a dozen of Whig
noblemen who possess an income equal to all the rest of
the House of Lords. The class of gentry who cannot
keep their standing without quartering their sons on
the public purse are for obvious "reasons Tories, and
foes to retrenchment. The more rich, who are inde-
pendent of the public purse, and the great mass of
owners of real and personal property, who do not look to
the public purse for provisions to their children, are
Whigs and Reformers. In the county of Berwick, for in-
stance, a rich agricultural district, Mr. Charles Majoribanks
was returned ; though, with two or three exceptions at
most, all the gentry with more than 500/. a year supported
his opponent. The clergy are necessarily bound up with
the Tory system of profusion, and go along with the
gentry as a matter of course. But when we consider how
small a share of the property of this great country is pos-
sessed by the class of gentry above described, it is prepos-
terous to consider them identified with property in general.
That class has interests at variance with those of the mass
of owners of property. It has a factitious importance
in the country. Why the interests of the industrious
population should be sacrificed to the drones it-would lie
difficult to explain on any equitable principle. The Go-
vernment of Lord Melbourne, as was admitted by him-
self, has against it a majority of the House of Lords,
and a majority of the gentry ; bUt in return it haS the
confidence of the great body of the people, of those who
live by their industry and ingenuity, and have a stronger
interest in good government than in the corrupt adminis-
tration of the public resources. With such support Lord
Melbourne's Government has only, in order to be successful,
to show to the people an earnest determination to set cor-
rupt interests at defiance, to endeavour honestly to remove

We arc very sorry to have to inform nearly all our Con-
temporaries, Morning and Evening, of the Metropolis, that
they have got themselves into what the Americans would call
" a pretty considerable tarnation mess." With the exception
of the Standard, and the Post, they have subjected them-
selveS to a penalty of twenty pounds for every paper they
published yesterday. Of course, they know, as every body
knows, that it is quite impossible the Whigs can pass any
measure which does not contain some grossly absurd enact-
ment, or some wretchedly stupid blunder. The public have
seriously and severely felt that the Whigs can never draw
up any measure which does not inflict, over and above the
natural results of each of their measures, useless labour or
useless 'expense on that portion of the community to which
the measure more immediately applies. This Newspaper
Stamp Duties Act furnishes a capital illustration of this le-
gislative: squint and wry-neckedness of the Whigs. The
fourteenth clause of the Act requires, under penalty of
twenty pOtinds for each offence, that the day of the week,
month, and year on which the paper is published, shall be
printed at the end of every paper. This is equivalent
to an enactment that -" the day of the week, month, and
year," shall be printed three times in every paper ; for
the Whigs must hate seen that " the day of the week,"
&c., were already printed at the head of each paper, and
,over the first of the leading articles in each paper. Let
us, however, give this delectable specimen of dunderheadism
entire :

all recognised abuses, all obstacles to good government. He •
has against him only those who were against the Reform
Bill, and who only oppose him because he wishes that that
Bill should not remain a dead letter.—Morning Chronicle.
The Conservatives have always possessed a remarkable
genius for invention. It has- been our lot to notice, from
time to time, some striking instances of what they are ca-
pable of in this way. They seem still determined not to
let their inventive faculties sleep. It was only yesterday
that one of their organs boldly affirmed that the Reformers
themselves at last amit, though of course with great reluc-
tance, that all the intelligence, and property, and respecta-
bility of the country, are enlisted on the side of the Tories.
The Conservatives have said as much of themselves a thou- •
sand times over—but this is the first time, so far as we re-
collect, that they have represented the Reformers as making
the admission. What Reformer of weight or influence has,
we should like to know, ever employed language which even
Tory ingenuity could, with any plausibility, torture into an
admission of this kind. We know of no such instance—
we arc satisfied that. no such instance exists except in the
inventive faculties of the Tory journals to which we have
alluded. But even were it sograntino-, for argument
sake, that some Reformer of distinction had been foolish
enough to employ language on some occasion which
would justify ,the admission which our Tory contemporary,
represents as having been made—still we hold that it
would amount to nothing. The Reformers as a body are
not to be made responsible for the follies or indiscre-
tions of any one or more of their number. The language
which one may be stupid enough to use is not to be put
into the mouths of all. The question is not what one,or
two may say, but what is the fact of the case. We main-
tain, then, that the great preponderance of the intelligence
of the country is enlisted• on the side of Reform ; and we
affirm with equal confidence that there is a considerable
preponderance of the property of the country also. We
admit, indeed, that there may be a greater number of per-
sons possessing incomes of upwards of 1,0001.. a year
among the Conservatives than there is among 'the Refor-
mers, but that is not the way to decide the question. The
only fair way of doing so is to take the property of the
country in the aggregate, and'then see whether the greater
portion of it be possessed by the Tories or the Reformers.
If in such a case, it would be found, as we have just said,
,that there is a greater number of Tories with incomes ex-
ceeding 1,0001. a year than there is of Reformers having
the same amount of income, it would be found that for one
Tory with an income of less than 2001. a year, there are
twenty %Antlers ; and that for one Tory with an income
under 100/. ncr annum, there are at least fifty Reformers.
—Morning 'Advertiser.
The Globe, the Morning Chronicle, and a correspon-
dent in the Chronicle, have come forward to reply to an
artiel.e ofours,depre.mting the granting of a British passport
to M. Isturiz by Mr. Villiers, our Minister at Madrid.
They conjointly accuse Us of not " being able to see the
difference between interfering to save a man from a mob,
and interfering' to save him from course.of law ;" and they

" And be it enacted, that at the end of every newspaper,
and of any and every supplement sheet or piece of paper, shall
be printed the ehristian name and surname, addition, and place
of abode, of the printer and publisher of the same, and also
a true description of the house or building wherein the same is
actually printed and published respectively, and the day of the
week, month, and year on which the same is published ; and
if any person shall knowingly and wilfully print or publish, or
cause to be printed or published, any newspaper or supplement
thereto, whereon the several particulars aforesaid shall not be
Printed, or whereon.tbere shall be printed any false name,
addition, place, or day,' or whereon there shall be printed any
description of the place of printing or publishing such news-
paper which shall bp different in any respect from the descrip-
tion of the house or building mentioned in the declaration re-
quired by this act to be made relating to such newspaper as
the hous6 or building wherein•such newspaper is intended to
be printed or published, every such person shall for any and
every such offence forfeit the sum of 201."

Now all the papers, as well morning and evening, that
we have been able. to procure, have, with the exception of
the two mentioned above and our own, violated this clause,
and incurred for each copy published yesterday, a penalty
of 201. As common informers cannot sue for this pe-
nalty, as the authorities of the Stamp-office alone can pro-
ceed, we hope our contemporaries are safe, and that they
will not suffer because they have not believed nor suspected
our Ministers to be.. the vexatious blockheads they really
are. Still, we have considered it only a neighbourly act
to put them ,on their guard ; for if Mr. Spring Rice,
senior, of the- Treasury, should continue his financial
dem,: and be preSsed for money, he may, like the prints
that support him, "go the whole hog," insist upon the pc•
nalties as means for rewarding the Bank Directors fcr
their Exchequer-bill rig, and then our contemporaries will
have brought their pigs to a fine market. In any and
every case we have thought it right to give this warning
to our contemporaries, daily and weekly, and in town and
country.—Times.

Lord Talbot, with his family, arrived at Frankfcri
on the 7th inst.

Yesterday's Hue and Cry and Police Gazette con-
tains a list of tvventy-three convicts, sentenced to various terns
of expatriation, in addition to those. inserted la;.t week, making
a total of sixty-one advertised during the last three weeks as
having recently 'sueceeded in effected their escape from the
penal colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land.

SHARP RETORT.—Lord Stowell would sometimes
make a sharp retort. When a late celebrated Duchess ban-
tered the Consistory Judge, and inquired, " How his court
would Manure if he himself should be guilty of •a faux pas?"
lie answered,' Asith a gallantry becoming the question, " That
the idea of such an embarrassing situation had only occurred
to.him since he had become acquainted with her Grace."—
Law. Magazine. .
BELL'S LIFE IN LONDON AND ' SPORTING
CHRONICLE will, on Sunday -next; the 18tli of Septeniln r,
contain a beautiful Engraving of " The Doncaster Gold
Cup ;" on Sunday, the !Lath inst., " A Portrait of the Winner
of the Great St. Leger;" and on Sunday, the 2d -of Octo-
ber, an Engraving of, "The Heaton Park Cup." The price
of "Bell's. Lire in London" will in future be Five Pence.
No expense shall be spared, by extending the Sporting and
General Intelligence of this Journal, to merit a continuance
of the unexampled popularity which it has heretofore attained.
Bell's Life is a large twenty folio column Journal, one-third.
of 'which is devoted to Sporting - matters, with a very limited
number of Advertisements. The price, only Five Pence.
Can be had on Sundays 200 miles from London.—Bell's Life
Office,- No. 170, Strand.
DISPATCH PERMANENTLY ENLARGED, AND
REDUCED IN PRICE.-On-the 18th of September the ./"...,ispatc.7:,
--the most popular Journal in England, circulating 30,000
copies per week-will be enlarged to the extent allowed by
the new Stamp Act, and reduced in price from 85d. to 6d.
It will contain 48 columns, and will be so arranged as to enab!e
purchasers, without' detriment to the annual binding of this
Journal in an entertaininc, and useful volume, to divide-the
sheet, so as to accommodate three readers at the same time.
In this alteration the proprietors give to their numerous friends
mere than the entire advantage of the reduction of the Stamp
Duty. That reductiOn is nominally from fourpence to one
; butlns a considerable discount has been hitherto al-
lowed by Government for spoilt stamps, which is now to be
withheld, the real reduction is. not more than twopence far-
thing. While, therefore, the-proprietors of the Dispatch sub-
stract from the price of their Journal more than is taken from
the Stamp Duty, they Will at the same time constantly give
four additional pages,, In fact, subscribers will have, every
week, an enlarged Dispatch for Sixpence. This Journal has
long been known as the undeviating advocate of the rights of
the people. Belonging to no political party, and influenced
by no party considerations, it is devoted to the exposure of all
abuses arid oppressions, the advancement of the great cause of
freedom through the medium of moral improvement, of popu-
lar control, and of perfect representation; in fine, to Reform,
in the most comprehensive sense of the word. The great
popularity of this Journal has induced unprincipled persons ti
fabricate fraudulent and worthless imitations. The Dispatch
is published at 139, Fleet-street.

consider Mr, Villiers justified in granting the' cover of Bri-
tish paper under the particular circumstances; though he
would not have been if he gave the same protection lest
year when M. Isturiz was a fugitive before the law. We
take it that our three adversaries are equally in error.
Their reasoning Las no application to the ease. liTe.st'and on
the broad fact that no British Ambassador, 11Iinistc'r, or
Charge d'Affaires, has a right to give a British passpOrt to
any other than to a British subject. The motives of Mr.Vil-
lierS may be very good, but he has clearly exceeded his
authority, and the consequences maybe more serious than
li
,calculated on. Every Alcade Will now be justified
in stopping Englishmen o❑ their road; under the pretence
that_they-are Spaniards in disguise, and that their papers

are fictitious. Any man who has the Sarno obliquity of
vision that M. Alcala Galliano is distinguished by, may
receive a serious impediment to his affairS if some village
authority should fancy that he, too, like M. Isturiz, was
protected by Mr. Villiers, to save him from a mob. But
the reasoning is, in all senses, ridiculous.- Is not the Spa-
iii4ll es-Minister now a fugitive from the Government of the
day? Is his flight at present not as much an el:Cape frmn'
justice as it was last year, when he conspired against To-
ren° ? The correspondent of the Chronicle assumes a
a particular knowledge of the facts. He is 'not sin-
. gular in that respect. The case is in a' narrow
compass. M. lsturiz and the son of Calatrava were
compromised together. M. Arguelles applied at. the
British Legation for a passport for his friend Isturiz, and
was properly refused. Calatrava took another form of
application, and was met with a direct negative. Why did
Mr. Villiers refuse the papers then, and why does be grant
them no cv ? His friends had better admit that his gclOcl
nature overpowered his judgment, for, accbrding,to the
excuse they make, Lord Stuart de Rothesay should have
protected Prince Polignac and the other Ministers of
Charles the Tenth when they, too, were flying from a mob.
Supposing Lord Stuart had given Prince Polignac a British
Passport, what would the Morning Chronicle have then
said ? We are glad that M. Isturiz is safe from the knives
of his blood-thirsty countrymen ; but Mr. Villiers, like his
master at home, has struck a decided blow at the honour
and integrity of the British name.—Morning Post.
The half-yearly Court of the Proprietors of Bank of
England Stock, for the purpose of agreeing to a dividend,
took. place yesterday, and, as might have been anticipated,
a discussion arose upon the steps recently adopted by the
Directors of that corporation to reduce the aggregate
amount of the currency, with a view to improve te state
of the foreign exchanges, and chec the exportation of bul-
lion. It must have been very gratifying to, the Directors
of the Bank of England to receive,' as they did upon this
occasion, from such a body as the proprietors of the stock.
of that corporation, an unanimous and unequivocal testi-
mony in favour of their conduct. A. vote of thanks for the
course the Directors have pursued, passed,
as in this case,
without a dissenting voice by the proprietors of Bank
Stock, ought, we think, to silence the voice of censure in
whatever quarter it may have been raised ; and, if it
cause the accents of
should fail to do so, will certainly
they proceed, to be
condemnation,
whencesoever
disregarded alike by the Bank Directors and the pub-
lic. The proprietors of Bank Stock constitute, in fact,
a very fair representation of all the most important
classes and interests of the mercantile
world. No
injudicious or unfair measure can be adopted_l3y the
Directors, in reference to affairs of such deep and exten-
sive importance as the rate of interest or the amount of
the circulating medium, without producing an immeditae
• effect, more or less injurious, upon the private and personal
affairs of many individuals who possess the right, and have
an opportunity periodically afforded them, as proprietors of
Bank Stock, to demand the reasons which the Directors
have to allege in vindication of their conduct, and to call
upon their co-proprietors to unite with them in an expres-
sion of disapprobation if that conduct should appear to
deserve it. And nothing can be more certain than that British
merchants who, as proprietors of Bank Stock, possess these
privileges,would exercise them in a manly,candid, and straight-
forward manner at the very first open Court of the Corpo-
ration subsequent to any proceeding on the part of the Direc •
tors, by which they felt or imagined their commercial interests
had suffered unfair injury, or been exposed to unnecessary
danger. We have heard much of the expressions of disap-
probation which certain recent acts of the Bank Directors
have elicited from intelligent and influential members of the
mercantile body. The uncontested and unanimous vote
of the Court of Proprietors of yesterday, seems to us to give
to these statements the most satisfactory and explicit con-
tradiction. There can be no doubt, indeed, in the mind
of any man who takes the trouble of thinking upon the
subject, for a moment, that some of the eminent and influ-
ntial merchants, were they any other than the mere crea-

SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF STOLEN PROPERTY.
—At Worship-street Police-office, on Tuesday, John Thomp-
son was charged under rather extraordinary circumstances with
having stolen a considerable quantity of valuable plate (worth
at least 801.), the property of his late master, Mr. Borradaile,
merchant,. of No. 34, Fenchurch-street, City, who has a
summer residence at Walthamstow. The prisoner had lived
five or six weeks in Mr. Borradaile's family as footman ; and
on the evening of Friday, the 2d inst., while that gentleman
was dining at a friend's in London, the prisoner carne to in-
form him that the plate had been stolen from the house at
Walthamstow. The account which he gave was, that having
occasion to go out into the neighbourhood, he was passing
through the lane in the rear of the premises, when a man
suddenly jumped past him over the hedge, and he heard a
rattling of what he then thought to be chains. He was much
alarmed at that, and still more so, when some time after his
return home he missed the plate from the pantry. He thought
at first that another servant might have carried it up stairs, but
finding that not to be the case, had no doubt that what he had
supposed to be the rattling of chains was the plate ; and he
1,,?t off to London to inform his master. Godwin, however,
and of the Walthamstow Police, disbelieved this story,
of the stoleumg
took the prisoner into custody on suspicion, and he
was detained for a week by Mr. Robinson, a Magistrate,
but there be'
prehended then no positive proof against him, or trace
alirfoperty, he was discharged, and was now ap-
p :—About nine o'clock on Monday night,
while Bowtray,
okipzlice constable, 130 N was on duty in the
neighbourhood
pton, the prisoner passed him in the di-
rection of Walthamstow,ago about two miles distant, and they
ght. Between twelve and one the
sna'imsheendigeahcthhoethpearssed
thelli
. same constable again, coming from
,tabbleeneath a large cloak that h
observing that he had something
but instead of doing. so. he ran offe awtefruell
cbEaulsl
Isteydx ,tuon andidi
iunder
mr the
histo
stop,
tcaoorpnr
r:s
speed. The constable followed, springing his rattle, and the
prisoner was stopped by another constable,
e, 113 N. A car-
petls bag was afterwards found on the spot, containing the
stolen tne
stolen plate, and the prisoner had in his possession three silk
handkerchiefs belonging to Mr. Borradaile. Sergeant God-
win recognized the carpet bag as one which the prisoner had
with him on leaving Walthamstow after his discharge out of
custody last week. The plate was now found to have clay
and dirt upon it, as if it had been concealed in the earth, and
',he prisoner's hauds L,ing in the same condition when he was
taken, it was supposed that the plate having been buried after
the robbery, he went down on Monday 140 to disinter and
carry it off. He was fully committed for teal.

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1836.

SURREY SESSIONS.

On Wednesday John Williams, alias Joshua Hurst, late
Sheriff's officer and the proprietor of a sponging-house in Cur-
Fitor-street, Chancery-lane, and Henry Turner, were indicted
for stealing four pint pewter pots, the property of two li-
censed victuallers, residing in the neighbourhood !of Cam-
berwell.

The CHAIRMAN sentenced both the prisoners to three
months' hard labour at Brixton, and cautioned them not to le
Ken in that Court again.
John Donovan was indicted for stealing a gold watch, chain,
and seal, of considerable value, the property of Mr. Stevens,
the grocer, v‘ hose house was destroyed at the late calamitous
fire in Southrvark.

The Jury found the prisoner guilty.
The CHAIRMAN said, he should be imprisoned for nine
months.

WANDSWORTH PETTY SESSIONS.

bert's house be looked up, and ho saw a great deal of smoke
and a few sparks come out of a chimney.pot belonging to the
house. In addition to this evidence the firemen► said that a
great number of persons were assembled before the house at
the time when the engines arrived, and they had been told by
several that sparks had been seen to come out of the chimney-
pot. Mr. Lambert having denied that his chimney was on
fire, Mr. Conant came to the determination of dismissing the
case, on the ground that there was not sufficient evidence of
the fire. It is a remarkable fact, that upon testimony not near
so creditable a vast number of rewards, amounting to seve-
ral hundred pounds, are yearly given to the jobbing firemen
who bring cases to this office.

Wednesday Bartholomew Bernard, an officer of the Excise
of this district, applied to J. Morris, Esq., the Chairman, for
his permission to withdraw an information laid by him against
a person named Saunders, for selling beer without a license.
The MAGISTRATE asked what were the grounds of the ap-
plication ?
The officer replied that at the very time the summons was
presented at the defendant's house, he bad just breathed his
last. This circumstance had been made known at the Board
of Excise, and they immediately directed him to make the ap-
plication.
The MAGISTRATE said, under the circumstances they could
have no objection to the information being withdrawn.
A man named Thompson appeared to answer a summons
issued at the instance of the Right Hon. Charles John Earl
Spencer, for unlawfully trespassing upon Wimbledon-common,
and cutting furze, the property of that Nobleman, who is Lord
of the Manor.

The defendant was ordered to pay the amount of the damage
and the costs.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.

Wednesday an ostler, named George _Harwood, was brought
before Mr. Alderman ATKINS, charged with having knocked
down and severely hurt a man whose name did not transpire.

J. Edgar said the injury was caused by accident. The man
and the prisoner were " larking," as it is termed. After
sparring for a moment the man who is now in the hospital
struck the hat off the head of the prisoner, who returned a
blow which knocked him down with his head on the hearth.
The man was stunned, and was carried in an insensible state
to the hospital. It was a momentary frolic kicked up in the
tap of the Black Horse, in Goswell-street.
The policeman observed that the injured man had expressed
a desire that morning that the prisoner should be released, as
he did not intend to do him harm.

Mr. Alderman ATKINS should remand the prisoner till
Friday.
Yesterday a young woman named Harriet Jane Edwards,
aged 20, was brought before Mr. Alderman ATKINS, having
been given in custody by her father, for running away from her
home at Winchester.

The father, a respectable man, and in years, stated that she
absconded from home about a month ago, and he had been in-
quiring and searching for her in the greatest distress of mind
ever since. That morning he met with her in Fleet-street,
walking with an abandoned woman who resided in Winches-
ter, and who had poisoned the minds of several girls in the
country with tales about the gay living in town, and had
thereby seduced them 'ol?ave their homes.
n"- An officer stated that this appeared to be an increasing e%il.
A waggoner was lately detected in bringing up fine looking
healthy country girls, «nd selling them at a certain place.
Mr. Alderman ATKINS had no doubt this was true, for a
similar case had come to his knowledge in Kent. Several
girls had been kidnapped from Maidstone and the vicinity, by
a woman who travelled thither from a town in Surrey, which
he would not name. I-Ic inquired whether the girl had ever
run away from home before.
The father said no. Fier conduct had been irreproachable
up to this act of unaccountable folly.
Mr. Alderman ATKINS desired her to go out and speak
with her father.

They retired, and in a few minutes they returned again, and
the father said she had now expressed her readiness to go
back with him.

Mr. Alderman ATKINS gave her joy of her decision.
The prisoner, who was a fine-looking young woman, was
thou given up to the care of her father.

BOW-STREET.

Four persons, one a walking tobacconist named So/ornans,
another a French-polisher named Jones, the third a sweep
named Blackman, and the fourth a young woman named Smith,
were placed at the bar, charged by a policeman of the F divi-
sion with fighting in Holborn, at eleven, Wednesday nia.ht,
and creating a great disturbance for more than ten minutes.
Mr. Solomons and Mr. Jones were very decently clad, but the
latter bore strong testimony to the (not in his case) figurative
expression of "fighting with a sweep," for his hands and face
were so begrimed with soot that he might have been mistaken
for the master of Blackman, who was as thorough-bred a
" chummy" as ever rattled his brush in a " chimley-pot."
'The facts of the case were as follows :—The tobacconist
and French-polisher were walking down Holborn, and as they
passed Miss Ellen Smith, she siid something to them, which
they resented, and the sweep hearing his friend insulted—for
so it appeared Miss Smith was—like a true knight of the
brush, turned-back, took up the cudgels for his lady-love, or,
in other words, nearly blinded his antagonist by showering the
contents of his soot-bag into their faces, and for a time put
an end to the dispute. As soon, however, as they recovered
from their temporary blindness, they set to work and pum-
melled the sweep, who was not slow to return the blows with
interest, being a bigger and stronger man than either the to-
bacconist or the French-polisher, and, having the advantage
of Miss Ellen Smith's assistance, gave them a sound drub-
bing. The matter ended in the four prisoners at the bar being
marched off to the station-house, the friends of both parties
having made their escape as soon as they saw that there was
some danger of getting► a night's lodging in the station-house.
Mr: Mmsnunn ordered them all to find bail.

Yesterday John Gillon, a stout-made young man, in the em-
ployment of Mr. Warren, the blacking-maker in the Strand,
was charged by Mr.. Charles Neville Smith, a merchant, re-
siding in Howard-street, with having been found concealed in
his kitchen on the previous night, under circumstances of rather
a questionable nature as regarded the chastity of his cook,
Louisa Fairfield, a sprightly, buxom young woman, who kept
aloof during the examination of her lover, and appeared ex-
tremely anxious to learn the result.
At half-past 11 on the preceding night, as Mr. Smith was
about to retire to rest, he fancied he heard a sort of sup-
pressed giggle, which appeared to proceed from the kitchen ;
and, listening more attentively, he was convinced that his cook
had smuggled in a man, and not knowing what the object of
the intruder might be, he considered it wise to cane a police-
constable and search the kitchen for the unbidden guest. Ac-
cordingly, having procured a police-constable, they proceeded
on tip-toe down stairs into the kitchen, and found the cook
in bed apparently ill a sound slumber. The constable observed,
however, that that the bed had all the appearance of another
person having lain in it ; and his suspicions were further con-
firmed by discovering a shoe of such dimensions that it could
not be mistaken for a lady's slipper. He then proceeded to
a cupboard in the kitchen, and there, upon opening the
door, he found the prisoner in his shirt doubled up like
Falstaff in the buck-basket, and, to all appearance, as un-
comfortably stowed as was the amorous Knight by the joint
contrivance of the merry wives of Windsor. At this moment
the fair Louisa started up, uttering a piercing cry, as if aroused
from her slumbers by some unpleasant dream, and the love-
sick maker of blacking was rather unceremoniously told to
dress himself forthwith, and prepare to exchange the comfort
of the cook's bed for the less congenial atmosphere of a cell in
the station-house, to which abode he was marched off, as soon
as he huddled on his outward habiliments.

The prisoner, when asked what be had to say for himself,
declared that he had been fur some time paying his addresses
to the young woman.
Mr. Smith—Yes, and I believe you were also paying your
addresses to the cupboard.
Mr. HALLS called upon him to put in bail to answer any
charge that might be preferred against him at the Sessions.