The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-08 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

Two young men, named Randall and Burns,- who
described themselves as drapers, were charged before
Mr. Henry, with creating a disturbance in Maiden-lane
at three o'clock this morning. It appeared that the de-
fendants, who had be en at the Cider Cellars, left with-
out discharging their reckoning, and were followed by
the waiters. Eventually the defendants paid what was
demanded of them; tut the altercation in the meantime
was so loud as to bring the policemen from Southamp-
ton-street and Haairietta-street to the spot. The defen-
dants being remonstrated with about their noise, per-
sisted in shouting, and refused to go on.
They were fined 40s. each, and Mr. Henry cautioned
them against again representing themselves as
" drapers," whereas it turned out that they were only
" assistants," or shopmen. If he had remained in the
error that they were drapers ho would have fined them
as drapers.
THE " SWEEPS AND BETTING" OFFICES.— Wylde
and Henry Hitchens, brothers, were charged with steal-
ing two pictures and some books, the property of their
late employer, Mr. Thomas Deacon, of No. 16, New-
street, Covent-garden. The prosecutor stated that the
prisoners were employed by him as clerks, at his offices
in New-street, which were opened for the purpose of
receiving bets upon the results of the several races from
time to time pending. He went down to Goodwood last
week to watch the results, and the persons who had de-
posited bets with him expected to be paid their winnings
the day after the races. He came to town at the ap-
pointed time, with the full intention of paying;
but on his arrival he found that the offices were
closed, the key returned to the landlord, and the
moveables, consisting of two coloured prints of races
(valued at 11. 15s. the pair), and three or four betting-
books, had been conveyed away by the prisoners.
The prosecutor was cross-examined by a solicitor on
the part of the prisoners. He was a bankrupt fourteen
years ago, and had taken the benefit of the Insolvent
Debtors' Act three years ago. He did not on either of
those occasions go by his present name. In fact his
real name was not Thomas Deacon, but Thomas Dean.
When he was made a bankrupt he had been trading in
his right name, but he became insolvent under the name
of Thomas Sims Dean. That was not a false name
because his mother's name was Sims.—(A laugh.) He
had never gone by the name of Sims. He had given
receipts for Mr. Thomas Sims, at a " betting concern,"
with which he was connected at present, in Great
Wild-street. There was a real Mr. Sims there, and
he (prosecutor) was not the person, though he
took money for him and gave receipts. He had been
connected with the Madras Railway scheme, but he
could not say upon his oath whether he was registered or
not as the promoter of that scheme. He did not recol-
lect the facts, but the deposits were never paid back. He
could not pay them, for he had no money. Re had gone
by another false name, that of Dustin, in which he took
a cheesemonger's shop and business in Judd-street some
time ago, and sold it at a profit. He never opened it
himself. He had assumed, at the place in New-street,
the name of Deacon to escape his creditors, who had an
execution against him. He had not been at the offices
since he came up from Goodwood. The prisoners and
another clerk named Brande had received all the money
in his absence, and be could not pay the claimants. He
had paid none of the winners, for he had not received
the money. Braude made away with it all except about
121., which they had let him have. The prisoners met
him in Gray's lan-lane last night, beat him, and took
him to the station-house. They accused him of cheating
a friend of theirs. He gave them into custody on this
charge, but the police let them go until this morning,
when the pictures, &c., were found in their house. He
further admitted that although he had sworn at the
beginning of his examination that he lodged at 9,
Duchess-street, Portland-place, he had at present no
fixed lodging,

The gagrstrate ultimately dismissed tho charge.

MA RLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.)
Diana Greenman, a well dressed woman, was charged
with having torn from the doors of Trinity Chapel, Con-
duit-street, a list of voters, thereby rendering herself
liable to the penalty of 201.
The defendant was seen to go up to the door, and,
after looking at the list, she deliberately tore out a leat,
and was about walking off with it, when she was given
into custody.
The accused, in defence, said she was a member of the
chapel, and thought by seeing the papers on the doors
that they referred to some matters connected with the
chapel; she therefore, in her ignorance, tore out one of the
leaves in order to read it at her leisure. If she had
done wrong, she was very sorry for it, and would take
care not to be so foolish again.
The MAGISTRATE said, as she had expressed such con-
trition for the offence, he should only fine her in the
mitigated penalty of ss.
The money was immediately paid.

THE COAL TRADE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Knowing your columns are always open to
correct public abuses, I take the liberty to state, that in
consequence of my connexion with the coal trade, my
hostility to the system of coal merchants sending out
short weight being publicly known, I have received many
letters from families making loud complaints; and as I can
prove that the majority of carts and waggons daily
passing through this metropolis do not contain in each
sack more than one hundred and a half, in place of two
hundred and twenty-four pounds, I beg to suggest the
propriety of Government appointing some official person
to test the mode in which the coal merchants weigh and
send out an article of such extensive consumption, and
,hereby destroying the wholesale plunder to which the
.nhabitants of this metropolis are subjected.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
L. L

Aug. 8, 1849.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COYENT-GARDEN.—Her
Majesty's box was occupied last evening by Viscount
and Viscountess Palmerston. Among the visitors were
—the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland and Lady Au-
gusta Pilule, the Duke of Devonshire, the Duchess of
Richmond and tho Ladies Augusta and Cecilia Lennox,
the Marquis of Titchfield, the. Marchioness of West-
meath and the Hon. Mrs. Henry Murray, the Marquis
of Douro, the Greek Consul-General and Madame
Ralli, Earl and Countess Granville, the Countess of
Glerigall and Lady Margaret Butler, the Earl of Cardi-
gan, the Countess of Tankersille, Viscount and Lady
Mary Anne Alford, Earl Bruce, Countess Poulett, the
Countess of Carnwath, Viscount Exmouth, Viscount
Cantilupe, Viscount Sydney, Lord Bateman, Lady
Mary Bentinck and Mr. F. Bentieck, Lady Beadle.
sham and the Hon. Miss Thellusson, Lady Bayley
and Mr. Bayley, Lady Leeson, Hon. Colonel Arthur
Upton, Hon. Mrs. W. Herbert, Hon. Spencer Cowper,
Hon. Edw. Upton and Mrs. Upton, Chevalier and Ma
dame de Herta, Baron Osten, Hon. Cecil Forrester,
Hon. Edmund St. John Mildmay, Sir John Walsh,
Bart., Sir Thomas Hare, Bart., Sir George Armytage,
Bart., Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Sir Charles Marshall and
Miss Marshall, Sir John and Miss Burgoyne, Lady
Jervis, Mr. Gregory, M.P., Mr. Gerrard Sturt, M.P.,
Mr. Disraeli, M.P., Mrs. Disraeli, Colonel Wingfield,
General Wyndham, Captain Parker, Captain Stirling,
Captain Cuddy, Captain C. Ellison, Captain Dalrymple,
Captain Egerton, Captain Dudley Carleton, Captain
Bastard, Captain D'Aguilar, Captain Robinion, Colonel
Blanc, Mr. Cttlingliam Smith, Mr. J. Lloyd Clayton,
M. and Madame de Lizirdi, Mr. and Mrs. Arabin, Mr.
A. Arcedeckne, Mr. and Mrs. Coghlan, Mr. 11. Greville,
Miss Burdett Coatt: and Miss Burdett, &c. &c.

Dispatches were sent off yesvirday evening from the
Colonial-office for the Governors of Hong-Kong and
Ceylon.
LoripoN AND NORTH-'WESTERN.—The dividend
of this company will be alter the rate of 7 per cent., and
foe balance c,rried forwaid to the next half-year will
be considerable.

SUN,

SYMPATHY with the HUNGARIANS.

MEETING AT EDINBURGIT.

A public meeting of the citizens of Edinburgh was
held in the Music Hall on Monday, for the purpose
of " expressing sympathy with the Hungarian nation
in their glorious struggle for constitutional freedom."
The Hall was filled, the larger portion of the audi-
ence being composed of the working classes, with a
sprinkling of females. On the platform were—Mr.
Cowan, M.P., the Lord Provost, Count Krazinski ;
the Rev. Drs. Alexander, Brown, and Hetherington ;
Mr. Makgill Crichton, of Rankeillour ; Baillie Stott ;
i Councillors Gray and Radpath ; Mr. James Mon-
-1 crieff, Advocate; Mr. A. Dunlop, Advocate; Mr.
Duncan, S.S.C.; Mr. J. F. Macfarlan; Mr. William
M'Crie; Mr. George Lees, A.M., &c.
On the motion of Mr. M'Crie, the Lord Provost
was called upon to preside.
The LORD PROVOST, on taking the chair, said
they were met that day in the sacred cause of liberty;
and he was delighted to see so large a meting of his
fellow-citizens assembled at a time when, as a friend
near him had remarked, Edinburgh might be said to
be out of town. At one time he entertained some
doubts about the propriety of a meeting of this kind,
lest it might have been found to do evil rather than
good, but after the speech of Lord Palmerston in the
House of Commons—(Applause)—and the effect
which that speech had already produced, all doubts
had been removed from his mind ; and remembering,
as they must all do, that this was not the first time
that Britain had interfered in the cause of Hungary,
he thought they would be far behind their predeces-
sors were they not on this occasion to take some
notice of their struggles for liberty, and to express
towards them their cordial sympathy and good-will.—
(Cheers.) He felt assured that no one worthy of the
British name could stand tamely by and see a combined
despotism attempting to blot out the very name of a
noble, brave, and religious people from among the
nations of Europe.—(Renewed applause.) He was
sure every other nation in Europe would be induced
to follow the example so nobly set them by Britain in
lifting up their voices against so grievous and un-
worthy a tyranny as the combined forces of Russia
and Austria were exerting against the people of
Hungary.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. lIARRISON stated that he had received letters of
apology for absence from Lord Dudley Stuart, the
Rev. Dr. Candlish, the Rev. Mr. Goold, the Provost
of Leith, Bailie Tullis, and others. He also announced
a donation of 51. from Mr. John Grant.
Mr. COWAN, M.P., then rose to move the first
resolution. Referring to the largeness and enthusiasm
of the meeting, he said there was no place more
likely than the capital of Scotland to respond heartily
to the call made on them to sympathise with the
persecuted and cruelly treated subjects of Hungary.
Their forefathers, in former days, had nobly vindi-
cated
their national existeuce in the face of fearful
odds. He need only refer in proof to the names—now
household words,—of Bruce and Wallace, who, five
hundred years ago, in the face of English power and
English tyranny, maintained successfully the national
existence of the kingdom of Scotland.—(Cheers.)
He was sure the hearts of the descendants of these
men, and the inhabitants of the country for which
they had fought and bled, would be filled with indig-
nation when they read the accounts which were
received day after day through the newspapers, garbled
as they were, of the injuries perpetrated on the noble
Elungarians by those cowardly tyrants, Russia and
Austria (Hear, hear) for he hardly knew
whether the -execrable cowardice of these
mighty tyrants did not exceed the outrages
and barbarities which they were enforcing against
that brave and noble people. He trusted
such a shout would be raised by the united
voice of Europe and of Christendom as would speedily
put a stop to such tyrannous proceedings.—(Ap-
plause.) He was glad to think that the object of this
meeting was a moral one—that it was proposed to
effect the end they had in view by the influence of
mind upon mind throughout the nations of the earth ;
and he was happy to think that that honest and
singularly able man, Richard Cobden—(Cheers)—
whom he was proud to call his friend, had struck the
right chord when on a recent occasion he stated that
unless the sinews of war were forthcoming from the
western nations of Europe, Russia had little means
of her own to carry on this contest. And were they
in this country, with the recollection of the burden
of debt entailed upon them by past wars, or the
capitalists of other countries, likely to embark their
money for an object which was likely to prove
so utterly worthless, and its accomplishment ac-
companied by the desolation of the country
which was invaded by the ruthless tyrant ?
He trusted, therefore, that by strong expres-
sions of opinion from meetings such as the pre-
sent, in every part of this country and of other coun-
tries, representing as they did the opinions of the
independent class of the community, even the Em-
peror of Russia would find it impossible to carry on
this accursed contest, which must not only secure for
him the detestation of this country, but the execra-
tions of succeeding generations.—(Applause.) After
expressing his satisfaction at the peaceful tendency of
the recent foreign policy of the Government, the Hon.
Member concluded by proposing the following
resolution :—" That this meeting heartily sympathise
with the Hungarian nation in the noble and deter-
mined efforts which they are now making to maintain
their constitutional independence, and to secure the
permanent enjoyment of civil and religious liberty ;
which efforts, the meeting ardently hopes, may soon,
by the blessing of God, be crowned with a glorious
success."
The Rev. Dr. ALEXANDER seconded the resolution.
They were called together, he said, to maintain a
great principle in that science which had been justly
denominated the ethics of nations—they were called
to maintain the faith of treaties and the sanctity of
oaths—they were called to lift up their protest, in the
spirit and accordant with the deepest conviction of
this nineteenth century, that might was not right,
and that the attempt to wrest by brute force from a
free people their chartered and cherished independence
was an outrage upon humanity, and an offence in the
sight of God.—(Cheers.) They were met to offer
their sympathy to a free people struggling for that
which was the dearest possession both of individuals
and of nations, and, as far as they had the power, to
aid them in bringing their struggle to a glorious and
successful conclusion.—(Renewed applause.) It was
of great importance that they should have distinctly
before them the cause as it exactly stood which had
brought them together. They had met not for the
purpose of contemplating the case of two great powers
attempting to settle a quarrel between them by
an appeal to arms, nor of taking part with any body
that had broken loose from former restraint, and
was seeking to act apart from legitimate authority ;
but they were met to look at the case of a free people
—of a people who had always, in historical memory,
been a free people—who were seeking nothing but
what they had always been accustomed to possess,
but from whom a great power was seeking to wrest
their ancient independence, and for this purpose had

called in the aid of another, perhaps a greater, cer-
tainly a more despotic power, in order that they
might trample underfoot the treaties which many
centuries had sanctioned, and might bring under
bondage and slavery a people that had always called
themselves free. From the time that the crown of
St. Stephen passed into the possession of the House
of Hapsburg, at every demise of the Crown, and
every successive coronation, the independence and
freedom of Hungary had always been secured in
the most solemn and impressive manner. It was
therefore in the face of everything that

went to establish the freedom of- the
that Austria and Russia were now waging war
on the plains of Hungary, and they had therefore
before them a case so clear and simple, that he

could conceive of no man hesitating to give an ex-
pression of his sympathy towards the struggling
party, resisting that aggression on his rights. If
it was asked what right had they to interfere at
all in the matter, he would say at once, if they
had no right before, Russia had given them an un-
questionable right.—(Loud cheers.) If the repre-
sentative of unmitigated despotism might interfere to
fasten pinions on freedom, the representative of the
liberty of the world might interfere and say, He
shall not.—(Loud applause.) And he (Dr. Alex-
ander), appealed here, not to conventional arrange-
ments, nor to political interests—he would not raise
up what he was sometimes inclined to suspect was
little more than a sort of phantom, the balance of
power. He would go to higher and more impressive
considerations. He would appeal to that law which
was above all laws—that law of which the great
Roman orator and philosopher had said that " neither
by the vote of the Senate, nor by the sill of
the people, can we be absolved from its obligation"—
that law which found a response in the bosom of every
intelligent man—the great law of moral rectitude—
(Hear, hear)—and, appealing to that law, he main-
tained that Hungary was entitled to be free, and that
England was entitled to send her voice across the
waters, and say to the despots=" She shall be free."
—(Loud cheers.) There might be some in that
assembly who were conscientiously opposed to war
of every kind, hut he could not suppose that even
they would refrain from cordia:ly wishing success to
the Hungarian arms, for this plain reason, that the
appeal had already been made, and the struggle must
come to a close by the victory of one or other of the
parties ; and even if they sh4uld think the Hungarians
had done wrong in appealing to arms, they still must
wish, since one party must conquer, that they should
conquer who had right on their side.—(Hear, hear.)
But he would venture to go a little further for him-
self. He was there to offer his meed of cordial
applause to the Hungarians for the course they
had pursued, and for the bravery and courage they
had manifested. He believed there was such a thing
as just and necessary war, and that when war was so
it was honourable and might be commended. He saw
nothing in religion or in morals which forbade a man
to defend the sacredness of his own hearth and home,