The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-11 00:00:00

THAMES-OFFICE.

Yesterday William Williams, a marine-store-dealer, at
Stratford, in Essex, and Jeremiah Leonard, an old Irish-
man, a bricklayer's labourer, in the employ of Mr. Curtis, a
builder, of Stratford, were brought before Mr. CLARKSON,
charged with being in possession of a quantity of metal, and
metal nails, suspected to have been stolen or unlawfully
procured.
Mr. CLARKSON said, if the property had been identified,
he should have committed both prisoners for trial. He
sentenced Leonard to two month's imprisonment and hard
labour in Chelmsford Gaol, and Williams to pay a fine of
3/. to the King, and forfeit the metal found in the shop.
William Hoare, a metal collector, was charged with hav-
ing in his possession upwards of 3001bs. of suspicious metal,
consisting of run-pewter, the produce of publicans' pots,
and new leaden pipe, which had never been used, but was
beaten up. The prisoner's cart, on which was the name
and address, " Hoare, Compton-street, Soho," was seen
standing at the door of the shop of a receiver, named Carr,
a marine-store-dealer, in Bedfordbury. The prisoner brought
one bag of metal out of Carr's shop, and was driving away,
when Falconer, a Surveyor of Thames Police, stopped him.
The only defence of the prisoner was, that he bought
the metal of Carr and others.

Mr. CLARKSON sentenced the prisoner to pay 51. to the
King, and the money was instantly produced. The metal
was condemned.

POST OFFICE.—Mr. F. Kelly, brother to the cele•
brated actress, late one of the clerks in the General Post
Office, has succeeded Mr. Benjamin Critchett as senior inspec.
tor of General Post letter carriers.

ST. JEAN D'ACRE.—The strength of this hitherto
impregnable fortress is broken : the walls, which swept round
the plain, enclosing the town as within iron ramparts, were
shattered in the last siege by Ibrahim Pasha, after a desperate
defence of six months. The whole town, which once looked
so neat, well-built, and prosperous, has now an air of ruin ;
even the noble mosque built by Djezzar Pasha is undergoing
repair, from damages sustained during the siege ; it is tower-
ing above all other buildings, a monument of the liberality and
devoutness of the ferocious Djezzar, who perhaps raised it as a
kind of compensation for his many atrocities. The writer was
told by Sir Sidney Smith, that when seated one evening with
the Djezzar in his divan, the latter, displeased at some recent oc-
currence, menaced the Admiral, and hinted how easy it was to
imprison or even put him to death, if he chose but to give the
word. "It is very true, Djezzar Pasha," he replied, and very
easy to fulfil your words ; but look at that ship," pointing to
his flag-ship in the harbour ; " before the sun shall set, Acre
would be a heap of ashes."—Desci iption of Syria by Came.
POLISH EXILES.—In the conscientious fulfilment
of the sacred duty they owe to their country, and in furtherance
of that influence which unmerited misfortune never fails to
obtain in the hearts of a humane, civilized, and enlightened
nation, the Polish refugees ever since their arrival on the
shores of Great Britain have been anxiously labouring by all
the means in their power to direct attention to the cause for
which they arc proud to suffer, and in particular to diffuse
true and impartial information upon the importance of Poland
as an independent State to the peace and commercial prospe-
rity of Europe. Although, during the late five vears of their
exile, they have sized many opportunities of endeavouring to
enlist the active sympathy of the English people in favour of
their native land, yet their exertions, owing to numerous dif-
ficulties, arising from their situation as foreigners, have not
been hitherto crowned with that success which a flattering;
hope held out to their sanguine expectations, and which pos-
sibly might have been secured by a bolder conduct on their
part, and by repeated appeals to the feelings of the British
nation. Amd now that the French Government openly wages
a war of bitter persecution against all those of their country-
! men who dare to breathe a sentiment that the most fastidious
satellite of despotism can construe into hostility to the interests
of his employers, and that England is the only country where
the exile is enabled to give utterance with sincerity to the
emotions of his heart, and continue unfettered his exertions as
the advocate of insulted humanity, they are resolved to re-
double their activity with renewed energy, while yet this
one home is spared to them. In order to give a better effect
to their proceedings, the Poles resident in London have
chosen a committee, and that committee, honoured with the
confidence of their countrymen, beg to announce to all the
friends of Poland, that they have already entered on the ex-
ercise of their duties, and raising their voice in the defence of
the rights and liberties of which the greatest mass of the
Polish people has been hitherto deprived, they earnestly ex-
pect that with the active co-operation of their friends they
will be soon enabled to animate and combine the sympathies
of the British nation in behalf of their country, and justify its
hopes of the final triumph of freedom and of justice. On the
original signed--,-President, General Dwernicki i Speresynski,
J.. Zaba, Haicksi, S. Kezmian, F. Kirkor, A. Dunin, seeres
Wry, g• SSatkoski.
REPORTgD NIVIIDEII.—On Saturday an
investigation was entered into before Mr. Higgs, the West,
minster Coroner, at the Coachmakers' Arms, Rose-street,
Long,R.Pre, by order of the Magistrates of Bow.strect Office,
relative to the death of a child, aged two years, named Cathe-
rine Berry. It appeared from a lengthened inquiry, that the
deeftaced was a child of Irish parents, living at No. 16, Rose-
street. A few days since an Irishman died in the house, and
on Thursday evening his death was celebrated by a 46 wake,"
in consequence of which the street was a complete scene of
uproar consequence
whole of the evening, and several assaults were
committed upon persons passing the street, by the lower
order of Irish. A body of police were in attendance, and
tho conduct of a man named Burke was so violent
that he was taker, into custody, and upon hi king
taken before the Bow-street Magistrates, the following morn-
ing, he was heavily fined for an assault 3 It was reported
that two death of a child had taken place on Friday morning
in the same house, and the Magistrates gase directionsfor
the manßurke to bye detaiped, until the result of the Coroner's
Inquest was made known. The mother of the child was exa-
-1010, /40 #l,O stated that the deceased hai horn ill 0913 six
weeks, arid slim the night in fp}e§tion b4d put her to bed
early, and locaed her in a recoil where no person could get to
'wore positively that no violence Whateyg ho
)3eeir? pef e 4 the ph 4A
pf the Filp, 'Who were in
attendance at the " wake.'r A surgeon deposed that he had
been attending the child about Six weeks, and fi-oin'a post
mortem eXamination, which lie hart performed upon the body
On Saturday, he was convinced that it had died from natural
anuses. 40!y, s-fser n sl:s,st 'eturleci a eq_
dict Nateral Death." 'The .fury !born was
crowded,
and a great number'of :persons were waiting outside to heat'
the yerdict.