The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-26 00:00:00

Q UEEN-SQUARE.

James Arrant appeared at this Court, z•esterday, to an-
swer a summons obtained against hint by the secretary of
the Holborn Joint Stock Loan Company, for having ne-
glected to pay the sum of U. 10s., being the balance of a
loan of 15/. advanced to him by the Company.
Thomas Alsop, clerk to the Company, proved, that on
the 26th of January, 1 532, the defendant applied for, and
received the loan of 151., to be repaid by instalmeas of 6s.
per week, and an additional 4'. which went to defray
some of the expenses the Society were put to. At the
time of payment, the interest, five per cent., was deducted.
Defendant paid his instalments somewhat irregularly up to
the 6th of last December, when he ceased paying.
Mr. BURRELL asked defendant what he had to say to the
claim made upon him ?—Defendant said be thought he had
not only repaid the loan, but had greatly overpaid it. lie
would admit having, on one or two occasions, been behind-
hand in his payments, but he made it up afterwards by
paying the whole sum due, with the fines imposed by the
society. Though he had applied for, and nominally re-
ceived a loan of 151., he never actually received more
than 91., for which with charges made for inquiring
into the respectability of the sureties, writing letters al'-
proving or disapproving of them, visiting others, and
he knew not what other matters, more than one-third
of the 151. was taken from him, and found its way
into the pcckets of the society. When he made a back
payment of 305., with the five fourpences, he was in-
formed that no more than 245. could be entered in his
book, as the rest went for fines for irregularity of pay-
ment. This happened more than once. One time he
sent his wife with 245., and Is. 2d. for four weeks' pay-
ment, and they only credited him to the amount of 18s.
Mr. Edwards, the chief clerk, addressing the secretary,
said—lt appears very odd that this is not the first or se-
cond time that poor people whom you have brought to this
office, have complained of their: having been overcharged
in this way by your society.
Mr. Tayler, the second clerk, pointed out sem al irre-
gularities in the book in which the society had professed
to et tcr the sums pa .d by defendant.
Mr. BURRELL asked what the extra fourpence per week
was paid foi ?
Also,' said, for the expenses of the office.
Mr. Edwards—But you make charges against the poor
people in ti:e shape of fines as defaulters.
The clerk said their rules, which were enrolled accord-
log to the Act, gave them full power to impose those fines.
Mr. Edwards.—The fact is, that when the instalments
are brought in, you make what entries you like in the ap-
plicant's bock, and by these entries they must abide.
The clerk make no reply.
I Defendant repeated that he had never benefitted more
1 than 91. by the loan society, and he left it to the Magic.-
trate to decide, whether they had not already got enough
I out of him.

The clerk entered into an explanation, and asserted that
the defendant had not during the whole time paid more
1 Is. or 12s. in fines, and what fines had been levied were
according to the rules, the nature of which defendant could
be aware of before contracting the loan.
Mr. BertnELt. was of opinion that defendant must have
known he was bound to abide by the rules, and he, there-
f ,re, considered that he was bound to pay the sum claimed.
Defendant was ordered to pay the sum sued for, and
costs, amounting in all to 325., in three weeks.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF Tills DAY.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
We have had within the last few days some edifying
illustrations of the boasted unity and vigour of the Tory,
or soi-doisant Conservative party. We have seen, in the
House of Lords, the Bishop of Exeter at loggerheads
with Lord Lyndhurst on the Irish Corporation Bill ; and
in the Commons, Sir Robert Peel at daggers-drawing with
Mr. Plumptre on the question of Maynooth Cullega.
" Verily it is a goodly thing for brethren to dwell togethei
in unity." There is reason to suspect that on the subject of
Lord Stanley's Registration Bill itself, there is anything but
unanimity of opinion between the Tories in the House and
their friends and advisers out of doors. The spectators of
the game, it has often been remarked, sec more occa-
sionally than the players. Our contemporary, the Stand-
nocbovui agus leymseenets reason for dropping the language
of signifi-
cantly termed " waantder "tulip"ognintghe iwiohpacts ofis
carrying
this nefarious measure. The Standard of last evening
has the. following passage, manifestly intended as a febri-
fuge for the ardour of the Tories in Parliament :—" Some
such Bill as Lord Stanley's must and will pass sooner or
later. For ourselves we should prefer to see it left
.for a
better House of Commons, as it would be thus a better
Bill." The grapes are out of the Standard's reach, and
therefore, like tEsop's fox, he pronounces them sour. He
has no wish to pluck the fruit of Lord Stanley's vine this
Session; he prefers waiting for "a better House of Com-
mons to ripen them. The present House is n t worthy
c honour of passing so divine a Bill.

EVENING EDITION.

(From the Times.)
It would be difficult to imagine greater skill or temper
than the Noble Member for North Lancashire has exhi-
bited during the guidance of his measure through a reeky
and sinuous channel to its present anchorage in the pre-
dominating favour of the House. The. roadstead may be
an exposed one, but there is good holding ground at bot-
tom. Lord John Russell has obviously felt i.is own con-
dition with regard to this measure to be mere precarieus
every day, and has therefore relaxed in the sternness
of his original hostility. At first he could scarcely mea-
sure the heat of his expressions. He cannot without diffil-
culty now inflame them up to party pitch. Nur
can we refrain from congratulating the Nobl: i'di.
nister for the Colonies, on this his approximation
at least towards a spirit of justice and impartiality
upon a subject of such transcendent importance. What
lie, a member of the house of Russell, a member, and a
distinguished one, of the aristocracy and statesmanry of
Great Britain, could or can ever gain for himself or his
ne•liiuenntryfaboytiopnl,ayiwngnosinoto
otnhley
hands
s i sot of add
natn apduvreprossee ansodemarst
to be—first, to tear away from IrelancL the crown of
England, and next to subjugate it under the triple crown
of Rome, and this, too, in the name of civil and religious
liberty I—what Lord John Russell could gain for his
country, or his own character, by pandering to a project
like ibis, we declare before Heaven our faculties do net
enable us to conceive. Yet with all this is intimately
blended the resistance to Lord Stanley's measure.
(From the Morning Herald.)
The Old Bailey Bench bids fair to beeethe a fashionable
lounge, and the languor and eu'l ceremony of morning tails
are likely to give place to the more exciteable visits to the
felons of Newgate—to the more stirring orations of a cri-
minal court. .The morning concert is positively put in dart
ger by the superior attractions of the morning trial—music
gives way to murder; and the strains of Rubini and La-
blache, with the wonderful fingering of a Liszt are eschewed
for the withering denuncia•ions of Adolphus or Bodkin,
and the professional sophistry of Charles Phillips. We
know no greater, no more melancholy evidence of
the spirit of the times—of a spirit insatiate in its
cravings for coarse excitement—than was presented by the
array of female rank that—would we could say it I—graced
the trial of the murderer Courvoisier I We ask, is the
delicacy, the tenderness of the female mind enhanced by a
familiarity with such scenes? Is it for woman to forego.
even for a moment, the native sanctity of her nature, and
voluntarily to associate herself with men convened for a
most loathsome, though most necessary, investigation ?
with men, who, however, indurated by practice, bronzed
by custom, are yet accessible to the deepest emotion,
when taxed to their last melancholy duty? Is it for female
tenderness to make a fashion of the bench, where the
gray-headed Judge weeps as he dooms his fellow-man ?
Is the Court of Death to become the place of bon ton? Is
beauty to sit with opera•glass to her dry ryes, scrutinising
the felon face of the arraigned murderer with the same
collected glance bestowed on the circle of a theatre?
Surely the proper sphere of woman is a far different place
—her duties of a purer and more sacred nature. Monday
week, it is said, is fixed for the execution of the murderer
of Lord Russell. On that day, the hangman—instructed
by the wisdom of the times—will give a practical leeuro
on the sacredness of human life, by taking life. Movdsy
week will be a holiday, a fete day, to all the licence of the
metropolis—the Old Bailey will be crowded with its thou-
sands, gathering to see a show, rot to take a warning.
The schoolmaster will give lessons from the gallows, and,
verily, a British populace will be instructed.

ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB.

GRAND SAILING MATCH.

The first prize given by this liberal club for the present
season was contended for yesterday by several of its mem-
bers. The Regal Sovereign steam-boat was engaged as
usual to accompany the yachts. She left London-bri:!ge
at ten o'clock, for Greenwich, where she anchored opposite
the Hospital, whence the start always takes place, for the
purpose of allowing the Commodore of the Club to Pre-
sent the prizes to be sailed for to the Governor, Agmiral
Fleeraing, who is its vice-patron, and at twelve o'clock the
yachta took their stations, preparatory to the start. The
following tivere the yachts, with the names of their owners :

,VENING EDITION•

GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 11
MANSION HOUSE:and TITHE-FREE LAND for SALE,
near CLIFTON and BRISTOL.
TO be SOLD by PRIVATE CONTRACT,
A commo limas and very desirable RESIDENCE, called
HENLEY HOUSE, with lawn, pleasure-grounds, gardens
well stocked with fruit trees, plantations, five cottages, and
upwar 's of one hundred and ten acres of tithe-free pas'ure
land, all in a ring fence, beautifully situated on an eminence
comminding extensive views of the Welsh hills, in a very eli-
gil 1! neighbourhood, and within three miles of Bristol.
Tha house ( ontains, on the ground floor, an entrance and
inner hall, with stone staircase, breakfast, dining, and drawing
roe ns, gentleman's dressing room, water-closet, servants'
I al , kitchen, and pantries, with. other extensive and very eon-
venient offices. there are capital underground cellars.
On the first floor are six best bed rooms, two with dressing
rooms, (lay and sleeping nurseries, water-closet, with back stair-
case leading to four servants rooms above. There are also two
men-servants' sleeping rooms ou the first floor, with a distinct
s' a rcase.
The detached offices consist of a dairy, laundry, and drying
ground, roomy coach houses, stabling for eight horses, a spacious
loe,e box, cart-stable, cattle sheds, barn, and other suitable
agricultural buildings. The premises are plentifully supplied
with water.
The grourn's immediately in front of and contiguous to the
house (through which the carriage drive passes), are well
timbered, bounded by thriving plantation', and form a park of
upwards of fifty acres, divided by a sunk fence and iron-railing.
The cottages are at the side of the road bordering the estate.
The whole of the property is situate in the parish of Westbury-
upon-Trym.
To be viewed by tickets only, and f. r her rarticulars known,
on a.iplication to Messrs. Osborne, Ward, and Sons, solicitors,
or Mr. J. Marmont, land-agent, Bristol.
N. B. If desired, the land may be reduced to about seventy
acres, lying immediately in front and behind the house, the
residue being in no respect essential to the enjoyment of the
mansim house and park.

DINNER TO DANIEL O'CONNELL,
Esq., M.P. At the request of several MEMBERS of
PARLIAMENT, the PUBLIC DINNER intended to be
given to Mr. O'CONNELL by the FRIENDS of CIVIL and
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, is POSTPONED from WanNEs-
nAT, Jaly Ist, to WrnsEsnAY, Ju'y sth, in consequence of an
unexpected notice of motion on an important question having
been gran in the House of Commons for the former day.
Tickets, One Gainea each, may be kad at the bar of the Free-
aaaaons' Tarn.
JAMES LEARY, Secretary, Dinner Committee.

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