The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-28 00:00:00

COMPANION TO WALPOLE'S LETTERS TO HORACE
MANN.

This day was published, in 3 vols. Bvo., 365., with Numerous
Curious Notes, Now First Added, and a Portrait.

WALPOL E'S CORRESPONDENCE
WITH GEORGE MONTAGU, &c.

A COMPANION TO HORACE MANNN.

" There letters of Horace Walpole are master-pieces in their way.
That in which they shine unrivalled, is their accurate reflection of
the passing scenes of each day, pointed by remarks equally witty
and sarcastic. A new Democritus seems to have assumed the pen
to sneer at the grave follies of the human species."—Quarterly
Review.

Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

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dARKET..

Wheat. Barley. Oats.
First 6ls Od 37s 6d 31s 4d
Second sss Od 301 Od 22s 8d
Third 4os Od 23s Od I2s 0.1

.Dec. 22.
Vease.
49s Od
448 Od
4Cs (hi

Beans.
494 Od
41, Od
40, Od

HAMBURG MARKETS.
GRAIN.
Wheat, Marks 312 to 342 Oats, Upland
• Mecklenburg 270 to 312 Mecklenburg ...... ... to -
- Magdeburg 312 to ni Elder
-- Eider 270 to 318 - Holstein 102 to 108
Anhalt, white... to Petersburgh & Riga to
-- red to Malt, Pomeranian ....... —.129 to 141
Holstein
Rye, Mecklenburg 216 to 225 . Pease Upland, ye110w.....216 to 246
.... . _.-

to 216 Beani 19i to 253
to Tares "16 to 234
to 168 Rapeseed to
to Ditto Cakes
to Linseed ditto 56 to 63
corroN.
Carolina and Tennessee...B%to 10% 51aranham 11%t012
Georgia, Ist sort 1144 12 Madras 6 3%
2tl 1014 111-4 Surats 5 7
3d and 4th 5% 9% Domingo

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-- Holstein 2io
Archangel —
Barley, Mecklenburgh lO2
Magdeburgh
Lower Elbe —

COFFEE.
Mocha 7%to 8 Domingo
Batavia
Surinam 4 5 Porto Rico A 71,1
Rio 4% 5% Havannah 4% 7
Bahia 4% 6
SUGAR.— (Wit
Havannah, White 9 to 11

:h 8 Discount.)
Bahia, White 714 to 8%
Brown 54 6%
Pernambuco, White 7 8
Brown 514 d

Brown 6 'I
Rio, White 7 -8
Brown 5 6

Lord and Lady Rolle are entertaining a large party
at Bicton House, Devon. Earl O'Neill is on his way from
Richmond to join the party.
IRISH AND ENGLISH GENTRY.-It will, we be-
lieve, be found that the virtues of the higher classes are al-
ways in the ratio of the independence of the rest of the com-
munity. When a traveller perceives in any country the
gentry well behaved, he may safely pronounce that country
to be tolerably well governed. In these kingdoms the
gentry will be found to rise or fall in character with the ne-
cessity for their being on good terms with their inferiors.
No man in his senses for instance, would think of instituting
a comparison between the Irish and the English gentry.
The former are generally overbearing and harsh, and have
a code of morality of their own, in which, if we may rely on
the authority of the evidence in the Parliamentary Report
on the manner in which the duty of sheriffs is performed in
Ireland, payment of debts and performance of obligations
are not certainly included. The consequence of entrusting
power to an ascendancy has been that the ascendancy has
been exempted from dependence on the good opinion of the
great body of the people.—Morning Chronicle.

Monday morning, between one and two o'clock,
the following fatal occurrence took place at the Hare and
Hounds, Buckeridge-street, St. Giles's :—lt appears from
the statement of a number of females who witnessed the
melancholy occurrence, that Margaret Tate, a woman be-
tween 40 and 50 years of age, residing in Buckeridge-
street (accompanied by her daughter, a girl 16 years of
age), entered a large public room which is appropriated as
a public kitchen for the accommodation of persons fre-
quenting that part of the neighbouring. After they had
been sitting in the room some length of time drinking, an
altercation arose between the elder Tate and another fe-
male ; blows were the consequence. The unfortunate girl
interfered, for the purpose of taking her mother away,
when she was suddenly seized round the waist by her
mother, and thrown with tremendous violence to the
ground. In falling she struck the back part of her head
against one of the forms, which caused the death of the
unfortunate girl. Surgical assistance was promptly pro-
cured, but all endeavours to restore animation proved in-
effectual. The deceased possessed remarkable muscular
power, and was famed amongst her companions in that
neighbourhood for her courage. The body lies for an in-
quest, and the mother was conveyed to the station-house,
to await the result of the inquest.
TILE CALENDAR.—The Roman calendar, and
from which ours is borrowed, was composed by Romilius,
who made the year consist of 304 days. Numa Pompilius
corrected his error, by making it consist of 12 lunar months,
of 30 and 29 days alternately, which made 354 days, but
being fond of an odd number, he added one day more,
which made it 355 days ; and that the civil year might
equal the sun's motion, he added a month every second
year. Julius Caesar, as a further improvement, made the
year consist of 365 days, and left the six hours to form a
day, at the end of every fourth year, which was added to
the month of February. This calendar was called the
Julian, and the old style, in opposition to the new style in-
troduced by Gregory XIII., who finding the Julian gone
too forward, cut off ten days from the calendar, and to
remedy this defect for the future, left out one bissextile day
every one hundred years, making every fourth hundred a
leap year. By Act of Parliament, to remedy the incon-
veniencies arising from the differences of style, this kingdom
adopted the Gregorian or new style, by leaving out 11 days
of the month of September, to the year 1752. The solar
year consists of 365 days, 6 hours, and almost 10 minutes.
The lunar is less by 11 days, and consists exactly of 354
days, S hours, and 48 minutes, and is the year now used by
the Turks. The civil year, and by which each nation con-
trive to compute time, generally consists of whole days.
The common civil year consists of 365 days, and the bissex-
tile, or leap year, of 366 days, making one day more than
the common, and which is called the intercalary day.
A Dr. Munch has obtained from France, and is
about to lay befell., the world, eighty-four letters from the
Princesses Leonora and Lucretia of Este, to their mother,
which have never yet been published. Other letters be-
tween members of the same family have been discovered,
and it is expected that the publication of them will throw
great light on the history of 'lasso and the house of Este

KENSINGTON PETTY SESSIONS.

ASSAULT ON A YOUNG FEMALE BY A BARRISTER.—
At the evening sitting of the Magistrates at this office on
Monday, a gentleman of respectable appearance appeared
before Messrs. Codd and Barlow, the sitting Magistrates,
to answer a charge of assault preferred against him by a
young female named Martha Halford, residing in Smith-
street, Chelsea.

The defendant was taken into custody by police consta-
ble Hoare, T 118, about three o'clock on Sunday morn-
ing, and conveyed to the station-house at Kensington.
During the night he was bailed ; but not appearing previous
to the rising of the Bench on Monday morning the case
was postponed until the evening sitting.
On the defendant, who was accompanied by a number of
his friends, being placed at the bar, the complainant was
called but did not appear.
Hoare then stated that while on duty, about 3 o'clock
on Sunday morning, near Brompton-crescent, he heard
loud screams in that direction. On proceeding to the
spot he found the defendant and another struggling with
three young females—one about twenty years of age,
named Martha Halford, and her two sisters, named Jane
and Sarah, of the respective ages of fifteen and sixteen
years. Miss Sarah Halford was bleeding at the mouth,
and, charging the defendant with having struck her, he
took him into custody, and conveyed him to the station-
house. On their arrival the females stated that, having
been detained late at a relative's, stoning figs, they were
proceeding home, when, while passing through Brumpton-
crescent, the defendant and Mr. Morley, jun., accosted
them. The defendant attempted to take liberties with
Miss Martha Halford, who, screaming out, her two sisters
flew to her rescue, when he knocked Miss Sarah down.

Mr. Conn—Did the defendant deny her statement?-
-Hoare—He did not exactly deny it, but said he was
struck first, and in the scuffle Miss Halford fell down.
The defendant, in his defence, said he had suffered nume-
rous blows from all the three females before he struck either
of them. He then struck only one of them in the face.
Mr. CODD—Were you drunk ? Defendant—Yes, of
course.

Mr. Cr PD—You are, of course, aware that, by not attend-
ing this morning, you have forfeited your bail. Defendant
—I trust, gentlemen, you will look over that, on the score of
the inclemency of the weather.
Mr. CODD—You have rendered yourself liable to a fine
of 51. for the assault, and to other penalties for rioting in
the public streets at three o'clock on a Sunday morning,
which, to a person of your appearance, is very discreditable.
You have also rendered yourself liable to a fine of five shil-
lings for being drunk. lam sorry to say the law makes no
difference in that respect between a nobleman and a labourer ;
but a Bill will be brought forward in the next session of
Parliament, which will impose a much higher fine on persons
of respectability. You are fined five shillings, and if you
contribute a sovereign to the office poor-box we shall, pro-
bably, on your agreeing to that arrangement, say nothing
more in respect of the alleged assault.
The defendant immediately handed over the twenty-five
shillings, and was then discharged.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

HATTON-GARDEN.

James Macdonald and Wm. Herrick were brought up
charged by Thompson, 21 E. division, with the following
outrage. On Monday afternoon last, the prisoners, with
with a notorious gang of thieves, assembled near Bedford
Chapel, Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury, and commenced
pelting passengers with snow balls, and several persons
were robbed. Witness, knowing the prisoners to be thieves,
took them into custody, on which he was surrounded by
about fifty ruffians, who beat and kicked him in an unmer-
ciful manner, until: the arrival of other officers, who ren-
dered him assistance, and secured the prisoners. He was
so severely injured that he was obliged to have medical as-
sistance. The prisoners were committed to the House of
Correction and hard labour for three months.

On Monday evening a respectable looking young wo-
man was brought before Mr. LAING in the custody of ser-
geant Russell of the N. division, charged with having de-
serted her illegitimate child, and leaving it at Islington
Workhouse. The prisoner, subsequently to the passing
of the Poor Law Bill, became pregnant by a respectable
tradesman, residing at Islington, and was delivered of the
child. The father did not deny the fact, but refused to
render her any assistance, and being in indigent circum-
stances, she did not know what to do to support herself,
let alone the child, and the parish refusing her relief, she
resolved on leaving it at the workhouse.
The MAGISTRATE said it was out of his power to order
her relief; but if the father of the child, knowing it to be
his offspring, refused to grant it subsistence, he was not
deserving the name of a man, and ought to be scouted out
of all respectable society. He inquired her settlemant ?
The prisoner replied that she was born in Scotland. The
child was born in St. Luke's parish, and the father resided
in Islington.
The MAGISTRATE suggested that she ought to be passed
to Scotland.

The prisoner said that her case was very bad. She was
connected with a respectable family, and she wished to
conceal her misfortune, but she imprudently allowed fa-
vours to the father of her child under the impression that
he would be her future protector. If she went to Scotland
she would be disgraced and ruined in the eyes of her family
for ever.

The MAGISTRATE would discharge her, and directed the
parish officers to pursue necessary steps to compel the fa-
ther to allow something for the support of the child, which
they pledged themselves to do, and the prisoner accom-
panied them from the office.