The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-25 00:00:00

QUEEN SQUARE.

bead gardener to the Baron de Berenger,
Thomas Harris,
Cremorne House, WaS yesterday placed at the bar, charged
with stealing choice dahlies and seedlings to the value of 401.,
of Mr. William Denniss, the extensive florist of
the Property
King's-road, Chelsea.
Prisoner, in defence, said that a man took him there, and
told him to select what he chose.
Mr. GREGORIE thought prisoner's defence one of the most
improbable he had mr-t with for a length of time, and sen-
tenced him to be imprisoned and kept to Lard labour for the
term of six months.

WORSHIP STREET.
Yesterdny Mr. John Elswoi thy, and Mr. Thomas Elswor-
thy, his brother, who represented themselves to be stop-
brokers, were placed at the bar before Meeirs, 9Foya and

CODD, charged with assaulting Joshua Wort, the toll.collec-
tor at the Kingsland-gate turrpike.
They were fined 403. each. The penalty was paid, and the
defendants were discharged.
THAMES- OFFICE...
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George Campbell,;YOung man of good address, was charged
with illegally pawning a blanket and a pillow, the property of
Thomas Cochrane, of Wapping, in whose house he had rented
ready-furnished lodgings, from which he took the property and
pawned it.
The ease was clearly made cut against the prisoner, who
said he was impelled by want to act as he had done.
The prosecutrix, Mrs. Cochrane, had no wish to hurt the
young man, and was willing to arrange the matter.
Mr. BALLA NTINE—I am not permitted to do so. I should
be acting contrary to law, and contrary to my oath, if I was
to be a party to compromising a misdemeanour or compound-
ing a felony. It may be improper for me to say that I wish
the case was never brought here at all. It is brought here, and
I must do my duty
The worthy M 4gigtrate then sentenced the prisoner to pay
a fine of twenty shillings fur illegally pawning, and three
ahil-
hogs, the sum advonced upon the articles, or be imprisoned
twenty dad s.

MADAME VESTRIS AND HER HUSBAND.
PARK. THEATRE, NEW YORK —The town was on the qui vice
all last Motu!, y, in anticipation of the first appearance on our
boards of Ve-triis rr,d Matnev.s Wl en the curtain rose, net
only the se.-ts. but the hies. were full, aid the manager was
obliged to close the tickst-offices, and turn away bundle ds from
the doom; tl•e rrc dies .;mounted to Within a few 4tillittes of
1,750 dollars. The pedal-malt:es commenced with the intro-
duction of Mali m:• Vestris, in an allegorical interlude "r, y
Planche, taken f.ten the Drama's Levee. The instant sho
appeared she was g eased with' the most unbounded en-
thusiasm—se trecesnduous was tte cheering for several
minutes, that if any symptoms of disapprobation were meet.
felted they were unheard. The lady appeared exceedingly
affected by the warmth of her reception, and the deep feeling
of gratefulness she expressed was evidently heattfa It. The
popular farce of the Loan of a Lover introduced her in a cha-
racter mere suited to her versatile powers. Of the inimitels'e
Peter Spyk and Gertrude of Latham and Mrs. Chapman,
who were the originals in those parts on our boards, tie Park
audience entertain the most delightful reminiscences. The
Keeleys sub,equently made these two characters their own,
and, if we except Mrs. Keeley's Lucille, 'neither, perhaps,
apreared to greater advantage in any other. Under such cir-
cumstances, to make en impression as Gertrude upon an au-
dience whose very idea of the character was associated with one
of its most unbounded and fonely-cherished favourites, was
next to an impassibility; but Madame Vestris accomplished it.
Her impersonations were distinguished by all the sweetness
and naaoral grace of which the part is sesceptible. But the
distinguishing feature of Madame Vestris's Gertrude was the
surpassing melody of her ballads ; nothing we have ever beard
is comparable with them, and the one commencing with " I've
no money" we are confident has never been equalled on our
stage. The reception of Mr. C. Mathews was also highly
flattering.—New York Spirit of the Times,
ESCAPE OF THE BEAR FROM THE LIVERPOOL
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—AS a
,variety of stories are abroad
respecting the recent elopament from Mr. Atkins's zoological
estahlishment, we give the following particulars from the
mouth of one who had a peculiar opportunity of knowing the
real facts of the case. The individual alluded to is a person
named William Mayman. He says—" About six o'clock on
Sunday evening, the 7th inst., I was standing at my own door,
near to which was a man with a basket of nuts for sale. This
man first saw a large bear make his way over a gate into alane.
He immediately threw his basket to the beast, and it corn..
menced eating the nuts. At this moment a child between two
and three years old being on its way to buy some nuts, I ran
and caught .hold of it to bring it to my house for safety. Be-
fore I had advanced many yards the bear jumped upon my back,
seized my right arm, and began to grind it with his teeth in a
dreadful manner. I struggled with him to the best of my
power, but he threw me down. I cried out Mulder but
no one came to my assistance. He then loosed my right arm,
and I got upon my feet. I could not, however, make my
escape. He next put his paws upon my shoulders, and at-
tempted to seize my throat, Not succeeding in this, be caught
hold of my left arm, and bit it completely through. He again
tried at my throat ; I kept him off, and he fastened once more
upon my right arm, threw me down and commenced dragging
me up and down the road as a cat would a rat. I was still
calling ' Murder,' bet could get no assitance. Presently the
bear loosed my arm and began to bug me. He next seized
me by the hip with his teeth, and lastly got hold of me by the
back of the head, when the keepers of the gardens came and
beat him off, just in time to save my life. The beast then ran
away, and I sew no more of nim. I was taken into the house
by my wife, and medical aid procured for me ; and though I
was first pronounced to be in a dangerous state, I thank God
my wounds are all doing well but I am still lying in the po-
sition I was in this night week, unable to move or be moved."
—Liverpool Courier.
THE WEATHER.-011 Saturday week there was
a considerable fall of snow at Skiplam and the district about
Kirhymoomide. On the following morning the snow was
shoe. top de eie whilst in the fields there was a quantity acorn
in stock, and there is still a great weight uncut, and much of
it is quite green.—Hull Observer. The weather has been
exceeding') boisterous of ;ate—in fact rife with dis,ster by
laud And by sea The *.otm seems to have travelled from
north to south ; at Montrose the fine suspension Sr. ir.g Bridge
was rendered impassible; wherever the coast was .much
posed, the safety of vest.els was menaced even in port ; and f..;
miles around the capitals of counties, trees uptcited, cundt-,
carried away, meadows sub-merged, emb tnkmen s damaged.
and houses do tried, were common occurtesess. Ie Dumfries.
shire and Gail .way, the weather, from all we learn, was
a good deal mole moderate; bui still we hate heard of nume
rous casualties, more espeeiaily in the woods, and ott sectiot:s
of coast as far round as Troon and Ayr. On Thursday and

Friday week the wind blew with great violence, accompaniee
in the valleys with bail and rain ; ai.d on the following morn-
ing there was a considerable fall of snow Among the Moffat
hills. When the storm reached the Al,r,ey the turmoil wa,
fearful ; front the Docks to the Rock and far beyond, all was
commotion ; within the river, cillision was unavoidable ; spars
were lost and boats bulged in more instances than have yet
been noted, am', the season considered, a foretaste was given
ly alarming of the most tempestuous periods of winter.
Up to Thursday, the 18th current, the weather was wet and
mild, not merely in Dumfri,.s-shire and Gadonay, but over the
whole West of Scotland. The weather, we regrA to say, .is
•gain broken, and such crop as ai I exprred must have been
terribly battered during the last ten days or more.—Dumfries
Courier.

MYSTERIOUS CASE.-011 the 10.11 inst., Mar-
garet M.Kidop was brought to the Gorbals police office,
chdr%:ed with stealing a qunntity of wearing apparel, two
pounds odd of money, and with decaying or carrying away a
child of ten years of age, which has not since been seen or
herd of. The mother of the child lodged information at the
different police r.ffiees, and has made inquiry wherever she
thought it likely she could obtain the• least information regard
ing her child, but it seemed a hopeless task. On Saturday,
I °Never, some children had seen the woman M'Killop, on the
day stated in the charge, leaving the house in question with a
bundle, and the children also observed her going into a house
iu Rutherglen Loan, and they immediately carried the infor-
mation to the disconsolate mother, who found means to corn:
municate the circumstances to the police, who went direct to
the house pointed out by the children, and found the woman
charged lying in bed. Her appearance answers exactly to the
description given by those who saw her taking away the child
and the property on the 10th inst. She denies all knowledge
of the theft of the child. There' are four witnesses who say
they saw her, on the day above stated,•carrying a bunile, and
leading along the lost child. Two of them saw her in the
High-street that day, and the child was with her. She is a
woman of the most depraved habits, and there is reason to fear
tl at the child, who could be the only witness of the theft of
t! err perty and money—as there was no other person at the
time ;n the house—may, by this wretchei woman. be sent out
of the way, perhaps murdered, to conceal the guilt. —Glasgow
Chronicle.

COL. TITO MPSON AND MR. `WARD.—In the
Morning Chronicle we find a letter to Col. Thompson, signed
" H. G. Wald;" and, as we have no small regard for the
Member for Sheffield, we wish the said letter !id borne ano-
ther signature. By a typographical error in the Chronicle,
Col. Thompson.. in his speech at the Hull meeting, was mar's
to attribute certain expressions to Mr. Ward, which really be-
longed to Mr. Willoughby Wood. The Colonel lost no time
in correctint' the mistake, by sending a letter to the Ch,onielr.
This letter produced a reply from Mr. Ward, which that gen-
tleman, perhaps, fancies to be clever and cutting; but, to our
mind, it is worthy of a trained and hired scribbler of para-
graphs for some not over-scrupulous Tory journal, and utterly
unworthy of an accomplished gentleman sod Liberal Member
of 13,:rliainent. And Mr. Ward is substantially wrong in his
argument, as well as not and vulg: rin his style. He de-
nii's that in consideritz the Canadian quest on, " he set aside
the question of abstract justic,!;" but w, ar, perfectly Confi-
dent that Mr. Ward was reported in a SheffiArl paper to have
uttered, if not the identical words, the sentiment which those
words clearly conveyed ; and we defy Mr. Ward to escape
from the dilemma in which he is placed. For, if he admits the
abstract justice of the Canadian claims, he must conckmn the
means used to pf rpetuate injustice ; sad if he denies the right
to resist injustice, he virtually lends his sanction to the com-
mission of the most atrocious tyranny. No, Mr. Ward, if you
are not prepared to justify the violation of the Canadian con-
stitution, and to deny the constitutional right of the Heuse of
Assembly to stop the supplies, you must allow that justice was
on the side of the Canadians and Papineau. But you try to
reconcile opposite, when you say that abstract justice was on
the side of the Canadians, and yet that they ought not to de-
fend their rights, but were immediately put in the wrorg when
they stood on their defence. We recommend the Member for
Sheffield, when he next enters the lists with Colonel Thomp-
son, to look to his logic, and to abstain front the flippant and
a
unbecoming manner which he has been so misled as to use to.-
wards person in many respects very far his superior.—Hull
Observer.
The Pilot of Dublin, referring to Mr. Laudor's
last letter writes, " Mr. S. Landor, in a good-humoured
manner, declines further controversy upon Irish policy with
so thorough a judge of that difficult science as Mr. O'Connell.
We commend his discretion, and admire his diffidence. His
advice touching the Church, though disguised in a sailor's
jacket, conveys a sound and sensible moral. We, however,
who think the old wreck cannot be made sea-worthy by any
hammering while a lubberly and guzzling crew and igngrakt
and avaricious officers disgrace the service, would vocoiuniend
an immediate breaking-up of the crazy vosgol.o'
Sir James steam-coach is finished, alk4
yviii start from Buttevant for this city in a forte'-o,g, %melting
at dfccen miles au 94r9,00,