The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-15 00:00:00

BRADFORD.

BRADFORD, TUESDAY MORNING.—The election of a
'representative for this borough, in place of the late Mr.
W.. C. Lister, commenced this morning, a new writ hav-
ing been moved for at the earliest moment allowed by the
standing orders of the House of Commons.
The candidates to succeed the deceased Member are
Mr. W. Busfeiid, who sat for the borough in the last
Parliament. In opposition to Mr. Busfeild, the Con-
servatives have invited Mr. W. Wilberforce, late Member
Hull, to offer himself.

The election took place in front of the New Court,
where convenient hustings had been erected kir the
purpose.
Mr. R. MILLIGAN then proposed Mr. W. Busfield,
whom he recommended as an old and tried servant of the
electors.

Mr. J. LUPTON seconded the nomination.
Mr. J. G. HonsrALL then proposed Mr. w. "Wil-
berforce.

Mr. C. ACKROYD seconded the nomination of Mr.
Wilberforce in a short but appropriate speech.
Mr. BUSFEILD addressed the electors very briefly. He
commenced by regretting the event which had led to the
present meeting, and declared his attachment to progres-
sive reform, especially the reform of the Corn-laws. In
a detail of his political views, he referred to his past con-
duct in Parliament, and to his published addresses.
Mr. WILBERFORCE next presented himself, and was
loudly cheered.

A meeting of the Chartist non-electors was held last
night, to consider the most desirable course for the
Chartist electors to pursue at the election, at which it
was resolved—.

" That in consequence of the utter disregard of the
Whigs for their professions of respect for. public opinion,
in rejecting the superior claims of Colonel Thompson, -1,5
the most fit and proper person for representing this 4
rough, in defiance of the unanimous resolution of pub
-
lie meeting, it is quite apparent that till the Whigosf are
completely annihilated as a party, the attainment
e_
the
people's Charter will be frustrated, and for the ele_be
to remain neutral on this important occasion '
ns of a vo-
rrica • 7
the Chartist electors, as the most likely
highly culpable, therefore this meeting recoZ
to vote
catine, their cause under present circumstances, mend
ndd to
for the Tory candidate."

/EN EMPLOYED ON
STRIKE OF THE WcnockvENN.—On Saturday
THE NEW HOUSES or
we -"iroeress at both the new
employed on the works now
1%1,1'1'11;1)o:1r, the stonemasons
tthnelnumber of 468, struck
night, at the close of the
Houses of Parliament, to of refusing to return to
work, intimating their
Monday morning, in con-
Allen,
of the contractors. '['he
between them and Mr.
the workmen is, that Mr.
thllegnel
dhibsyconduct generally towards
Allen is too
particularlyar -
in not allowing them a few moments'
them,
labours to refresh themselves, which
causetsttieeilirfeonreoecmfempgoalrre's:ioann;ll;:rdl
arbitrary
(3:l'lYng
respite from their
they have been heretofore accustomed to have, under
pain of immo
d discharge. During the whole of
Monday the m
en were outside the buildinc, wLiting in
pectation that their grievances would be reme-
died, ehNut such not being the case yesterday morning the
whole of them came to the works in a body and took
away their tools, expressing their fixed determination
not to return to work unless Mr. Allen is dismissed
from his employment as foreman. A great number of
labourers are still employed in doing what little remains
for them, which [wing finished, if the absence of • the
mechanics is protracted, their discharge must also neces-
sarily take place. The progress of the works is, of
course, entirely suspended, and not the sound of a ham-
mer or chisel is beard in this immense range of building.
At each of the new churches at Bethnal-green.
Divine service is performed morning and evening every
day in the week, pursuant to a considerable bequest in
aid of the building fund, and the same is to be adopted
at all the other new churches in this parish, which are
to be named after the twelve Apostles. Service twice
each week-day has also been introduced at Shoreditela
Church. Two of the new Bethnal-green churches at
Friar's Mount and in Bir,hop Ilonner's Fields, ere nearly
completed, and will soon be ready for consecration.
Accounts were received yesterday at the tesi-
deuce of Sir John Conroy, at Kensington, of the death
of his second, son, late a Captain in the Coldstream
I Gaga& The event took place at Wiesbaden on the 9th,

EVENING SUN

SECOND EDITIO

THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.)
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank St ock — India Stock ....2461
3 per Cent Red. — :Ditto Bonds —pm
3 per Cent Cons B9i Ditto Old Annuities ...
31 per Cent Red — Ditto New Annuities...
New 31 per Cent 9Bi 'Ex. Bills, 1,000/. —2O 14 pm
New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001 l4 pra
Long Annuities tooxpire 1/itt Small l4
Jan. 1860.... — Bank Stock for Opg 1701
Oct 1859 lndia Stock for Acct...
Jan. 1860.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent... .Portuguese' 5 per cent.
Relgisi.n, 5 per cent 'Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian 80nd5.......... 681 Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent ll-.la
Chilian, b per cent — Ditto, ill etallic
Colombian, 6 per cent... , Spanish, 5 per cent 221
Ditto, 1824. Ditto, Deferred -.—
Danish, 3 per cent....... 80 French, 5 per cent. -f. —e.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. ,Exchange —f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 24 French, 3 percent —f. .--c
Ditto, 6 per cent, 11•:,25, Dutch, 21 per cent. ... 514
Peruvian,l32s, 6 per et. !Ditto, 5 per cent 1021
SHARES I
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 58
Grezt Western Railway (65 paid) ....
Ditto New Shares (50 paid 551
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
Gosport Junction Railway (50 pd) -, 51i
London and Brighton (50 paid)... 44
London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 101
London and Greenwich Railway (20 pd)
Ditto Scrip. (5 paid) 5l
London and South Western
Ditto Tenths (21 paid)
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) .. ...... 751
Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) ...... ... 181
North Midland Railway (100 paid)
Ditto New Shares (40 paid) ... 311
Ditto Third: (10 raid)
South Eastorn and Dover (38 paid)... 17

SURREY SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY.)

(Before Mr. PUCKLE and a Bench of Magistrates.)
►William Dungate was indicted for stealing, on the
14th August last, 120 pence, Ifio half-pence, and certain
quantities of bread and meat, the .property of Richard
Bashford. _

Richard Bashford, the prosecutor, is a grocer residing
at Battersea. On the morning in questiun he left his
house at six o'clock, and returned shortly before seven,
when he discovered that two papers of half-pence and
certain quantities of bread and meat had been stolen
from his cupboard during his absence. On his return
home he met the prisoner at a short distance from his
house, walking away.
J. Jordan—ls a carpenter, and was at work on the
morning in question on the house next to Bashford's,
and on looking into Bashfurd's house, between six
and seven o'clock he saw the prisoner there. He went
for a policeman, but Dungate was not taken into custody
at that time. lie knew the prisoner, for he had been at
work with him in the same premises. They had both
worked for Mr. Cox.

On his cross-examination by Mr. Coiner, the witness
said that he had on that morning told the prisoner that
if he came on the premises again, Mr. Cox had given
orders that he should be taken into custody ; that was
in consequence of a quarrel which had taken place be-
tween the prisoner and Mr. Cox. The boy Hutchins was
with him at the time. On their way to the Magistrate's
at Wandsworth, had had some conversation with the
boy Hutchins on the subject of the charge; had told him
to speak the truth, and had denied before the Magistrates
that he had had such conversation, but admitted it now.
He-had merely asked the boy about the day of the month,
which he had forgotten. Had worked for Mr. Cox 4'or
three years. Had previously worked for Mr. Spencer.
Had left him because he had no more work for him.
Had never been accused of stealing tools. Did not say
when he heard the prisoner was taken into custody that
he was glad to hear it. That he should like to hang him,
for he owed him him a grudge. Had never said any thing
of the sort.

their services when the work of agitation is to be
done. Whatever their motives may be, they • seem.
to be but imperfectly informed of the real causes of
the distress of which they complain. Were the Corn-
laws to be repealed to- morrow, and the same system
of over-production to continue, the condition of. the
industrious classes would not be ameliorated in the
slightest degree ; and when we contrast the misery
which is said to exist in our manufacturing towns
among the operative . classes, with the. overgrown
fortunes realised in a few years by the least libe-
ral of their employers, it is not difficult to un-
derstand to what origin the evil is to be referred.
Whatever modification of the existing Corn-laws may be
contemplated by Sir Robert Peel, he will not, we are sa-
tisfied, permit himself to be dictated to by people who
employ the phrase " provision laws" as a watchword of
faction; still less will he consent to allow such persons
to suggest to him in what manner he shall per-
form the responsible duties which have devolved
upon him. That there exists considerable distress in the
manufacturing districts cannot be doubted, but that the
extent of that distress has been grossly exaggerated for
factious purposes is equally certain. Sir Robert Peel
requites no stimulus from the Anti- dorn-law League
and its dupes to induce him to seek the earliest possible
opporttmity of applying a remedy to such a state of
things ; but the consequences of long years of Whig
misrule cannot be removed in a week.

Edward Hutchins, the boy, corroborated the evidence
of Jordan in every particular.
James Howard, a policeman, was told by Jordan on
the morning in question to take the prisoner into cus-
tody. He saw the prisoner walking away, and missed
him at the turning of a lane. The prisoner was walk-
ing, not running.
Police constable M'Mahon took the prisoner into cus-
tody on the 22d of August.
Mr. CORNER addressed the Jury for the pri-
soner, who had, since this occurrence, enlisted
in the Marines ; and on obtaining leave of ab-
sence from his commanding-officer at Woolwich,
bad come back to the neighbourhood where this had oc-
curred to see his father, which he would certainly not
have done had he been guilty of this charge. The
Learned Counsel also commented severely on the testi-
mony of Jordan and Hutchins, and put it to the Jury
whether they could convict on such evidence.

Several Witnesses gave the prisoner an excellent cha-

racter.

The CHAIRMAN summed up, and the Jury found the
prisoner Not Guilty.
Will:ant Edmonds a little urchin, who was scarcely
higher than the bar, was convicted of stealing a cheese.
On inquiry, it appeared that although at the time he
committed the offence he was in company with a, well-
known thief, yet he was not known to the' police, and
that his parents were bard working people. His mother,
a respectable looking woman, was in .Court, and
said she was not aware her son who she hal
always kept at school until lately, when he had
worked with his father, had any bad acquaintances,
and that he had been in custody fourteen days before his
parents were aware of where he was, during the whole
of which time his father had been searching for him.
The CHAIRMAN sentenced him to fourteen days' im-
prisonment in the House of Correction at Brixton, to be
kept in solitary confinement the whole time, and to be
once privately whipped.
Elizabeth Horsley was indicted for stealing 12 yards
of printed calico, the property of Eleanor Williams.
The prosecutrix keeps a drnpers' shop in Lambeth-
walk, and on the night of Saturday, Aug. 21, between
the hours of 11 and 12, the shopnutn of the prosecutrix
received in!brmation which led him to look outside the door,
a hen he observed that a piece of calico, which was ex-
hibited outside the shop on a chair, was gone. He saw the
prisoner walking away; apprehended her, and the calico
was found in her possession.
The CHAIRMAN,- in summing up, commented severely
on the imprudent conduct of drapers in exposing goods
outside their shops at so late au hour as between eleven
anti twelve at night.
• The .Jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended
her to mercy on the ground of the temptation which had
been thrown in ber way by the imprudence of the pro-
secutrix in permitting the goods to be exposed in the
street at so late an hour.

Two precious convictions having been proved against
her, she w sentenced to twelvl. month.; imprisonment,
with hard tabour.

The Court refused to allow the expenses of the pro-
seontion, on the ground that the incautious exposing of
goods in the street at so lase an hour was holding out
too great a temptation to persons in the situation of the
prisoner.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

rnost '2IIF. EVFNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
OLOBE.—That the Whig party is at an end, and that
the power of the Tory party is to have no end, except by
utter subversion at the hands of the Chartists or Radi-
cals, is the moral of the song of the " leading Journal"
again this morning. If this Were true, it would not
be matter of much rejoicing for the wiser Tories.
No party can rule for ever ; and if the end of the
sway of the party now in power is to be radical
revolution, unmitigated by the existence of any in-
termediate party, then their actual triumph may sug-
gest subject of awful apprehension fur the future.
Not many days back, a Radical Contemporary made
it matter of charge against the Whigs, that, for these
ten years past, they had stoo.-,k between the people and
the aristocracy, and declared the; when the Tories should
again lose rower the Whigs would not again be suffered
to protect the enemies of the people. It appears their lead-
ing organ is of the same opinion. The maxim "Delenda
est Car:11(1.9o"
has been carried out to Whiggish extinc-
tion. When the Tories fall. (as slliiusters must, sooner or
later),
they will throw us without reserve into the arms
of the Chartists ; and Sir Robert Peel will advise her
to send for-Mr. O'Connor, or Mr. Vincent. or
.7,[ajesty , h .
despatch Iluoson a longer journey for states-
P"siblY tdoistance, while the seals of office are held, ad
men a" air, single Wellingson of the Chartists,
interim, ..7 may not have sent to join the chiefs
whom the Tories
of his party at the Antipodes. Seriously, however,
we doubt _
whethyrWhi‘:ggism .(understanding by that
name the principles o; a body of statesmen neither
Tories, nor advocatese
ate of popular absolutism) is so
utterly
We doubt this the int a
the country as the Times repre-
sents exani
snore, because we never meet
.
who do not scout the very
with professed Conservatives
Tory principles. Well ! but
Id
idea of governing 0
principles is tantamount to
abandoning the old Tory d
if this is the way the Tories
adopting Whig ones ;
usurper, who ruled by person-
speculate on putting an end to the Whigs, they act on the
principle of that ancient usuri?
ause what constitutes
ating, a slain monarch. Partiesbcp,ut an end to in this
way are apt to revive again ;
; and those
parties is public action on common'principles
whose principles are acted on hold pow:er virtually, and
mast hold it finally. The more authentic morning organ
of the party in power says (adopting
the words of Lord
Howls's), that " a cautious out decided a
dysnce towards
liberal commercial principles may s
be exp-
cted from toe
present Ministry." We shall 'have personation, then,
sur-
after assassination. So much the better. if the 11.
pers act as well as they depose, they may pass for awhile
instead of them. if awls personate " liberal commercial
principles" without really carry them o;ir, ten the very
prstence of acting- on them lead back the public
mind to the consistent professors cf thugs. principles, and
restores them to their legitimate station.
STANDARD.—In obedif rtee to the frequent and
earnest appeals of the Liberal press to the inhabitants
of the manufacturing districts; to attempt by every
means in their power to obstpict and embarrass the new
Cabinet, a small and comparatively insimillint portion
of the householders of Manchester have signed a requi-
sition to the Mayor for a public meeting, having for
its professed object to take into consideration the
distressed state of that town and neighbourhood, and
the expediency of petitioning the Queen not to pro-
rogue the Parliament until a " full discussion" of
" the corn and provision laws has been entered into,"
the requisitionists being of opinion that those laws
" are the main cause of the prevailing distress." The
principal movers in this affair are Mr. Cobden and the
other Members of the Anti-corn-law League. Among
the requisitionists are many respectable and well mean-
ing persons, actuated no doubt by the best intentions ;
but by far the larger portion of them are obviously
of that order of politicians who are never chary- of

COLTRIER.—No further particulars have transpired
beyond what we were enabled to communicate yesterday
respecting the horrible attempt at assassination in Paris
of the Duke of Orleans, or one of his royal brothers who
tinned part of the cortege entering Paris in triumphal
procession with him. But this atrocious event cannot
but re-awaken the most paintid reflections on the moral
and religious state of a country where assassination is
reduced to a system, and trained assassins themselves
sympathisingly mourned over as martyrs, when, on pro-
vidential failure of pistol or dagger, the miscreants are
delivered over to the tribunals, and finally condemned to
expiate their sanguinary intents on the scaffold. In re-
viewing heretofore on various occasions the official
statistics of crime and education in France, we have nad
occason to show from irrecusable authorities that in pro-
portion as the modern theories of education without
religion have been adopted as the basis of legislation
for the instruction of the masses, so also has crime be-
come rateably on the increase. Of late, indeed,
the French Government have been made pain-
fully sensible of the fundamental error of their 'educa-
tional policy, and have laboured, not without success,
to retrace their steps by more specially associating
the clergy with the administration of a system
which has signally failed in all its promised fruits. But
the foundation being unsound—the tree being rotten at
the core—it were vain to hope by grafting on it more
wholesome shoots from a sounder stem to make it bear
meet fruit in good season. The whole system requires
to be revised and recast, with Christianity not only
for its basis, but as the pervading cement of every
part of the social structure. With this conviction
no one, we believe, is more deeply impressed than
that good man and able statesman, M. • Guizot
himself ; nor is the conviction confined to him alone,
for the philosophic mind. of France has been irresisti-
bly impelled to the same conclusions, notwithstanding
all the force of formerprejudice against what were deemed
and treated as monkish superstitions of the olden time.
The recent writings of M. Chevalier, one of the ablest
and most enlightened men of the age, and peculiarly a
creation of the school of La Jeune France, with those of
other equally distinguished men who might be named,
tend to show how decidedly they have been converted
from a cherished attachment to former speculative anti-
cipations of social perfection to be arrived at by means
of a system of popular education based on purely secular
principles of ethics or morals. The frightful results de-
veloped by the official returns of educated and non-edu-
cated France have produced this change of convictions ;
returns which confirm the melancholy truth of the ex-
traordinary spread of crime following on merely laical
instruction.

THE LATE FIRE AND LOSS OF

LIFE IN PICCADILLY.
(ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.)

About five o'clock on Monday afternoon a large por-
tion of the wall between the houses Nos. 86 and 87, fell
down with a frightful crash, carrying the various floors
along with it, but providentally no person was hurt,
the fronts still remaining up. Yesterday, it being
evident that the front of No. 86 would soon come
down, and probably bring with it the front of Nos. 87
and 88, a hoard was commenced round Nos. 86 and 87,
and supports were placed under the bow-windows of the
house of Mr. Nixon, No. 88, and under those of the
house at the corner of Half Moon-street. About half-
past five o'clock in the afternoon a loud crash was sud-
denly heard, and instantly that part of Piccadilly was en-
veloped in a dense cloud of dust, from which hundreds of
persons might be seen hastening in all directions. On
the dust clearing away a little. it was found that the
fronts of Nos. 86 and B.r had at last fallen ; fortunately
no one had been hurt.

Since the adjournment of the inquest it has transpired
that the name of the deceased was not William West,
but Moses West, in consequence of which some diffi-
culty has occurred as to the registering of the death,
to obviate which an application on the subject has
been made to Mr. Higgs, the Deputy-Coroner for
Westminster, who being aware that should it
turn out at the conclusion of the inquiry that the lire
had not been accidentally occasioned, the misnomer
might operate to the frustration of justice, has issued
another warrant in the name of Moses 'West, and on the
Jury re-assembling on the adjournment day, the inquisi-
tion will be again gone through (LI novo. The body will,
therefore, remain at the workhouse in Mount-street,
until again viewed by the Coroner and Jury._

The—other unfortunate sufferer, James Weaver, still
remains at St. George's Hospital in a most precarious
state.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian.)

MANCHESTER.—There was a decidedly better de-
mand for yarn yesterday than on the preceding Tues-
day, and though no advance was obtained, prices were
tolerably firm. In the goods market there was a
tolerable demand for fustians. domestics, and long-cloths;
but shirtings and printing cloths continue much depressed.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, SEPT. 13.
The flannel market continues good, yet not quite so
many pieces have been sold as upon former Mondays.
Prices remain still very low. There is no change in the
wool market ; yet prices are firm.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, SEPT. 14.—A fair amount
of business was done to-day, yet not so much as last
week. Nor is there quite so much confidence felt in
commercial stability, partly owing to numerous failures
in most parts of the country, and the foreign demand
being on the wane. The principal demand was in
middle and low priced woollens and kerseys. In plain
superfines there was more animation ; and in light
fancy goods, generally, the demand was equal to the
season. Prices are firm, and business in the warehouses
continues tolerable.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE:
MANCHESTER— TUESDAY EVENING.
The result of the St. Leger is really a stop-gap to all
business. The offers are so few that we must decline
giving any quotations. Bee's Wing is all the rage for
the Cup.

A CORN SHIP STRANDED IN THE RIVER
—On Tuesday considerable excitement prevailed in the
river below bridge by a report that the brig Isabella, a
Hamburg trader, laden with 1,400 quarters of wheat and
a considerable quantity or wool, had gone ashore near
the Shadwell entrance of the London dock, and had be-
come a wreck. It appears that the Isabella intended to
enter the London Dock and discharge her cargo there,
and was to have entered at the lower entrance at Shad-
well at high water yesterday morning a few minutes be-
fore one o'clock. The ship, however, had not arrived on
the top of the tide. and the dock-master and the lock-
men not expecting her afterwards until the next high wa-
ter, left the en trance and went home. About an hour after the
Isabella arrived cif the dock entrance; the tide had then
fallen considerably, and, as is usual with ships deeply
laden which arrive after the tide has begun to ebb, the
pilot and men attempted to moor her to the Dolphin,
off the dock entrance. By some mismanagement, how-
ever, the ship wa‘a suffered to drift between the Dol-
phin and the shore, and her heel caught the ground
abreast of Shadwell Dock Stairs, where there is a
causeway for the use of the ferry. The vessel grounded
at this place, and stuck fast, and at low water she
was left dry in a very awkward position, and was
very much " hogged" (back thrown up, and her
seams opened sufficiently to enable any one to insert
their hands in the openings. Her seams were caulked
as well' as the exigencies of the accident permitted,
and the Collin ;wood steamer was sent for four lighters
to keep her afloat on the rising of the tide, in conse-
quence of her leaky condition, and it was for some time
feared she would break up, and become a total wreck.
The lighters succeeded in lifting her, and she was taken
down to New Crane Dock, about 200 yards above the
Shadwell entrance, in the afternoon, with four feet
water in her pumps, where she commencedilircharging
her cargo into barges alongside. The ship is a perfect
wreck, and a great part of her cargo spoiled.
LEITH.--The reduction of duty upon wheat,
from Gs. Bd. to 2s. Bd., on Saturday last, produced, as
might have been expected, great excitement and specu-
lationo prefer
here.
themselves
whose stocks
of the
present
were low, r
and
e
of duty to waiting the chance of it falling to one
shilling
bond the whole of Saturday. The great bulk, however
(nearly one hundred thousand quarters), remains, upon
the expectation of being relieved at the minimum rate.
Seven entire cargoes changed hands on Friday, and
every tide is adding to the quantity already in bond.
The late ion. Alfred Assheton Harbord, who
died in the East Indies on the 9th of June last, was
second son of the late Lord Suffield by his first irarriage
with the Hon. Georgiana Vernon, only daughter and heiress
)e Go)rg(t, second Lord Vernon. Ile was bother of the
present Lord Suffield and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, wife of
:fr. George E. Anson, and was born 29th January, 1819.
fhe deceased was serving in the 3d Light Dragoons, in
which regiment he was Cornet.
Tt%o shepherds of the Pyrenees, remarked for
their skill and hardihood as hunters, lately killed an
enormous brown bear, an animal distinct
from the bla.ck
bear, which lives on herbs and roots, while the other is
carnivorous, and makes ruinous depredations among the
docks and herds. These men were employed two whole
days in the chase, armed only with single-barrel guns,
and to finish the destruction of their prey were obliged,.
after wounding, to assail him with the butt ends of their
nieces. They carried their game to Eau,x-Bonnes, and,
having sold the flesh to the restaurateurs, who regaled
their customers with it, put the skin over the back of an
ass, and paraded it through the town, making a gcod
.iollection. The animal weighed from 400 to 600 pounds.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HO USE.
An able-bodied young man, named William Lynn,
who has been for some time known to the police as a
person for whom " nothing could be too hot or too
heavy," was brought before the Lord .le.ydr, charged
with the double offence of picking a gentleman's pocket
and knocking a policeman down.
The person whose pocket was picked stated, that as
he was walking along. the street he was called to by
Pamplett, the policeman, who informed him that his
handkerchief had just changed hands. Upon feeling his
pockets witness found that his handkerchief had gone,
and upon looking at the prisoner, who was struggling
on the ground with the policeman, he saw that it had
got a new master. The prisoner fought hard on. the
ground, and endeavoured to get the policeman under the
wheels of a cab, but by the aid of another of the force,
was mastered. The prisoner, on his way to the place of
confinement, although guarded on each side, was deter-
mined to pay off his first accuser, and made a most
vigorous effort to fling Pamplett under the wheels of the
vehicles which were rapidly passing, but he was lodge.l
safely in the Compter, where he was recognised as
old guest.
The policeman'wbo assisted Pamplett said that the
struggles of the prisoner were of the most desperate
; kind, and several of the officers stated that the fellow
was a most determined and incorrigible rogue.
_ _

The LORD Mayon said it would be most desirable to
get, rid of the prisoner altogether, an event to which
they might reasonably look with some hope, as he vas
so well knpwn to be formidable as a thief and a fighter.
The Prisoner—l hope you won't commit me thi;
time. lAvas intoxicated, or I would not have done any-
thing of' the kind. 1)o let me off this once. I will never
attack the police again, I do assure you, my Lord.
The LORD MAYOR —NO ; you must go to a Jury. You
are getting too strong for us.

The prisoner, who declared that the police were pre-
judiced against him, was then committed for trial.
A young man, of good address and respectable ap-
pearance, named James Hall, was charged with having
robbed several tradesmen.
Mr. Walberen, of Watling-street, warehouseman,
stated that the prisoner applied for and received in the
name of Messrs. Smith and Monteith, of Oxford-street,
by whom he said he was employed, several pieces of
Saxony cloth.
James Lockyer, shopman to a pawnbroker produced
the pieces of Saxony cloth described by the last witness,.
and stated that they had been pawned by the prisoner.
The LORD Maroc—Who did the prisoner say he was
when he went to pledge this property ? I suppose you
asked him the usual questions ?—Witness replied that
the prisoner said, in answer to the usual questions, that
his name was George Evans, and that his brother and
he carried on business at Notting-hill, that they bought
the goods at Leeds, and that they were pushed for a
temporary supply of money. 'Witness entertained no
doubt whatever of the young man's honesty.
Mr. Hobler—He was very kind to give you the pre-
ference. He must have paesed a great many pawnbrokers'
shops to pay you the compliment.
The LORD MAYOR—Are you sure the prisoner is the
man who pawned the goods? Witness—No doubt, at all
of it. He said that we might go and see his stock at
Notting-hill if we chose.
Mr. Smith, of the house of Smith and Monteith, of
Oxford-street, stated that the prisoner was unknown to
the firm, and had not been sent by them for any goods.
The pawnbroker's man said that his employer was
willing to give up the goods at once to the prosecutor
without the ceremony of a trial at the Old Bailey.
The LORD MAYOR—No. I understand that the pri-
soner has been convicted already of procuring goods in
this way, and it is absolutely necessary to get rid of so
dangerous a character. You must be bound over to give
evidence to facilitate his departure from this country.
Mr. J. P. Foster, a partner in a hosier's house in
Wood-street, Cheapside, stated that the prisoner called
at the warehouse and' asked for and received a quantity
of kid gloves and hose, in the names of Messrs. Smith
and Menteith, of Oxford street.
These goods, which had been pawned, were also pro.
duced, and the prisoner was identified as the individual
who had pledged them.
The policeman who apprehended the prisoner said that
the prisoner had admitted that the goods were pawned
in the place where they were found.
Evidence as to another robbery of a similar descrip-
tion was also given.
It is proper to state that upon the first examination of
the prisoner it was mentioned by those who were plun-
dered that instead of meeting the facilities which they
had reason to expect in a respectable house when seek-
ing the means of bringing a moat dangerous offender to
justice, they encountered many impediments at the shop
of Mr. Dempster, a pawnbroker, of Blackfriars-road.
Indeed so strongly did one of the prosecutors feel upon
the subject, that he requested to know whether he could
be supplied with a search-warrant, the pawnbroker hav-
ing refused to let bins see the goods, although they were
acknowledged to be on the premises.
The LORD Mevon, upon being informed that so much
difficulty had been experienced, said he was surprised to
hear that a man who, as stated by Mr. nobler to be an
old tradesman, had so far disregarded the established
principles as to throw obstructions in the way of the
prosecution of such a delinquent.—The prisoner was
committed for trial.
A poor lad, about sixteen years of age, named Ed-
ward Chesterton, was brought up, in the absence of the
Lord Mayor, by the beadle of one of the hospitals, hav-
ing been discharged, after every skilful treatment in the
admirable Institution.
The boy appeared with but a small portion of the nose.
and with the skin of his forehead drawn over a silver
plate, which was so placed as to cover the upper part of
the head, and afford a double protection to the injured
skull. Great compassion was felt for Chesterton when
he mentioned the particulars of the dreadful accident
by which he was so dreadfully disfigured.
The facts were briefly as follow :—The ship Eliza-
beth Ann, bound from America to Plymouth, encoun-
tered a gale of wind in the river St. Lawrence, and car-
ried away her foremast. The boy was in the cabouse
at the time, and had just Put coals on the fire, when a
spar came across him, and forced him headforemost into
i the fire. The Captain heard his cries, and dregged bins
out by the legs, dreadfully burnt, and in great agony.
His nose was burnt off, and his forehead was stripped to
the bone, but the captain immediately got some flour and
oil, and poulticed the whole face, and all the crew treated
him with remarkable humanity. All that medical skill
could do had been done for him. The doctors at the
Hospital had contrived to make up a sort of nose for
him, and propped it up with wonderful skill, and they
had made him a silver forehead, against which he could
knock his knuckles as hard as he chose, and he was
thankful to God and to them, that after he thought his
whole face was burnt off, there was a good part of it
remaining. He felt particularly grateful for the preser-
vation of his eyes, which came off unhurt.
MR. NOBLER asked to what it was considered attribut-
able that the eyes had escaped ?—The boy replied. that
it was owing no doubt to the accident that he had just
before put coals on the fire, and his eyes when he
dashed into it came in contact with the fresh coals.
Mr. HOBLER asked him whether he still thought of
the sea ?—The boy replied that he was anxious to re-
turn to the business. He was in good health, and cared
little about being disfigued, as it was no fault of his.
Mr. HoneEn desired that the poor lad should be taken
care of in -the Hospital until the case should reach the
ears of some of the friends of humanity.
WORSHIP-STREET.
John Tucker, a stylishly-dressed person, who stated
that he was a solicitor's clerk, was charged with having
assaulted Harriet Holland, a comely and modest-looking
girl, 16 years of age.
The complainant stated that she was in the service of
a gentleman named Andrews, who resided in Cumber-
land-street, Hackney-road. On the preceding day she
attended her master and mistress to the house of one of
her friends in the City, and in the evening they sent her
home before them to make some domestic preparations.
As she was passing through Cheapside she was accosted
by the prisoner, who was an entire stranger to her, and
who informed her that he intended to spend the evening
at the Britannia Saloon, Hoxtoa, and invited her to tic-
' company him. She refused to do so, and repelled his
advances, but he continued to annoy her, and asked her
to drink gin with him at different public-houses. He
afterwards followed her to her master's house, and she
escaped from his importunities with great difficulty.
The complainant's master stated that on reaching
home he found the prisoner in his front garden, and on
asking what he wanted, there the prisoner walked away
without making any reply. The complainant, who was
in tears, and excessively agitated, opened the door, and
informed him that she had been insulted, upon which be
followed the prisoner and gave him into custody.
Upon being asked if he wished to say anything, the
prisoner admitted having kissed the complainant, but
denied that he assaulted her in any other manner.
He complained that after he was locked up the police
refused to allow him an opportunity of communicating
with his friends, or of apprising "his wife " of his
situation.
Mr. BROUGHTON ordered him to pay a fine of 505., or
to be imprisoned for two months in the House of
Correction.

LUCKY DREAM.—The form of the small shot
used by sportsmen are exactly spheroidal. The manner
in which this advantage is secured is highly ingenious.
It is said that a Mr. Watt, a native of Bristol, and a
plumber by trade, had a dream, in which he saw the
whole contrivance. A person appeared before him on
the top of a high tower, with a sieve in one hand, and
a ladle of melted lead in the other • the lead was poured
into the sieve, which lie shook violently, and the liquid
metal fell in drops like rain to the floor of the tower ;
but in its fall had recovered its solidified state. The
imaginary person then descended from the tower, and
examined some of the shot ; and among them Watt saw
everal that were not, either pettectly round, or had tails
to them. To separate these from the others, the man
removed the shot to an inclim.d plane ; those that were
round ran down the plank, while those that were mis-
shapen wriggled over the side. A perfect separation
was thus effected. 'This was a lucky dream for Watt,
as he sold his patent roi• 10,000/. ; and a similar
inethod is still employed by manufacturers.—Experi-
mental Philosopher.
A lad of only twelve or thirteen years of age
was returning, a few evenings ago, from Rheims to
Vieux, with a cart, and carrying a good sum of money
in a belt round his person, he was stopped by three rob-
bers, who demanded his money, and, on his refusing to
give it, threatened to put him under the wheel of his
cart. " Do," said the boy, " but you shall not have my
money." They proceeded to carry their threat into exe-
cution, the boy in the mean time calling in vain upon
his dog to assist him. The robbers alarmed, lest while
the boy resisted they should be discovered, at length
left hire. On his return home with his money the boy
gave it to his father, and then taking his gun shot the
dog, which had returned before him, observing to his
father that the animal was a coward and a traitor.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1841