The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-14 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

CONTEMPLATED CHANGES IN THE POLICE
31AGISTRACY.—A rumour for several days current in the dis-
trict, that Mr. Hardwick was about to remove from Lambeth-
street to Marylebone Police Court, to supply the place of the
late Mr. Codd, having received confirmation, a strong and ge-
neral feeling of regret, not merely among the persons more im-
mediately officially connected with the 4epartment, but the in-
habitants of the various parishes in which that gentleman has,
for upwards of twenty years, been a Magistrate, was manifested.
Under the influence of this feeling the trustees of the extensive
parish of St. Mary, Whitechapel, deemed it to be their duty,
as a manifestation of the pubic sentiment and a testimony of
their respect for the high qualifications of that excellent Magis-
trate, to present him with a complimentary address previous to
his departure. In compliance with this resolution a deputation,
composed of several members of the trust, waited on Mr. Hard-
wick last week at Lambeth-street Police Court. John Scott
Smith, Esq., presented the address, to which Mr. Hardwick
made a very appropriate reply.
A man name(' George Robinson has absconded
from Droitwich Lunatic Asylum. He was a criminal convict,
removed from the Worcester Gaol to the above residence; his
height is about 5 feet 10 inches; his complexion light, having
a red mark on his face ; he is about 33 years of age.
EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE FROM NEW-
G nTE.—Yesterday morning, about nine o'clock. the turnkeys of
Newgate prison discovered that Richard Jones who was in for
trial as one of the accomplices in Ganley's murder, and also on
a charge of being connected with certain Ribbon, or Secret
Societies, had made his escape. He cut the iron bars of the
window where he was confined, and on doing that (it being a
top story)was enabled to get on the roof of the prison, on which
he crept, till, by means of a holdfast in the prison, to which he
tied a rope, he let himself down into the street and escaped.
The rope, about forty feet in length, was found suspended from
the wall; but no clue has as yet been found by the authcrities
to enable them to ascertain whither he is gone, notwithstanding
that the most anxious and diligent search was made through
the entire day,—Dublin Evening Post.
FATAL IRISH AFFRAY.—Monday morning an
Irish labourer, named John Newnham, expired in the Middle-
sex Hospital, owing to injuries inflicted on him about a week
ago. It appears that a quarrel ensued between Newnham and
a number of other Irishmen in Cato-street, and that a despe-
rate tight took place. To escape from the fury of his assail-
ants, he (Newnham) made his way down stairs into a yard,
when the rest of the party followed, and beat him with pokers
and bludgeons until his skull was fractured in a dreadful manner
and his face and body cut and bruised all over. It was ex-
pected that the deceased would have died before his arrival at
the institution above alluded to.
The carriers in all quarters of the country are
suffering severely from the operation of the Penny Postage.
The contraband traffic in letters was a pretty good paying part
of the business of country carriers formerly, and deep and loud
are the lamentations at the introduction of the Hill and Wal-
lace system of cheap postage.— Glasgow Chronicle.
The late John Wilkinson, Esq., of Ebury-street,
Pimlico, who died about the year 1534, after having acquired
nearly one hundred thousand pounds, bequeathed the sum of
forty thousand for charitable purposes ; the interest of which
is paid to his executors half yearly, to be given away to dis-
tressed and religious people of good character, in sums of ten
and fifteen pounds, and who have not received parochial relief.
His executors are Mr. Jacob Wilkinson, of Southgate, Middle-
sex, Mr. William Nash, and Mr. John Morley, of Pimlico.
Mr. Charles Kean has returned to New York
from Charleston, where his success was great, and the receipts
at his benefit amounting to 1,200 dollars. By this time he is
playing a farewell engagement at the Park Theatre, New
York. His health, however, it is painful to hear, is precarious,
and he has, in consequence, determined, under medical advice,
to sojourn awhile at one of the West India Islands (Cuba), in
order to acquire strength for his voyage to England, to fulfil
his engagement at the Haymarket.
DISCOLOURATION OF BODIES ATTER DEATH.
—ln the course of an inquest held on Thursday, at the Britannia
public-house, High-street, Camden-town, before Mr. Wakley,
'ALP., on the body of Mary Ann Stubbs, a fine infant, aged
five months, which was found 'dead in bed by the side of its
mother, the jury having expressed their surprise at the appear-
ances of discolouration it evinced, Mr. Wakley said it was not
to be wondered at, as no doubt the child died in convulsions,
which, as well as other causes, always had that effect. He re-
collected some time ago holding an inquest at Hendon, on the
body of a boy, aged seven years, who was found drowned. The
body was so discoloured that it gave the appearance of his having
been beaten to death. The boy, however, was in the water
with others, whom he dared to follow him, and getting out of
his depth, was drowned ; but, if any person had been heard to
threaten him, and he had been subsequently accidentally
drowned when alone, the party who had so threatened him
would have stood a very great chance of forfeiting his life on the
charge of murder. As regarded the case they had met to in-
vestigate, he would suggest that the only verdict they could
return was, " Found dead." The jury coincided, and returned
;verdict accordingly.
FATAL GIG ACCIDENT.—OR Saturday after-
noon, a horse belonging to Mr. Mullinger, of No. 5, Rodney-
terrace, Mile-end-road, took fright, and proceeded down
the Mile-end-road at a fearful rate. He was attached to a
light gig, and had not proceeded far before the gig came in
contact with some obstacle, and was dashed to atoms. The
road at the time was densely crowded, and the number of people
knocked down by the horse is stated to be upwards of twenty,
twelve of whom were carried to the London Hospital. Six are
dreadfully injured. The remaining sufferers are not much
hurt, excepting one, a Greenwich pensioner, who expired
shortly after his admission into the hospital, and whose body
now awaits the coroner's inquest. The horse was stopped at
the turnpike, and was taken charge of by the police. While
the sufferers were being conveyed into the hospital, another
horse belonging to some of the officers of that institution, which
was in the enclosure, took fright, but happily was checked by
coming in contact with the brickwork, and iron railing and the
Western entrance. lio.xerson was injured.
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to the hospital, being procured, the flames proceedi
cart were extinguished, but not before the property contained
therein, with the cart itself, were entirely consumed.
SINGULAR CHARGE AND CONVICTION.—
Samuel Lees, framework-knitter, of Sheepshead, was charged
by Elizabeth Mason with stealing a shirt, the property of her
husband. It appeared that the prisoner had worked for the
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night, and would leave Mr. Cresswell to deal with him as he
thought proper ; on which the " sapient Justice" sentenced the
poor fellow to three months imprisonment with hard labour ' '
—Derby Reporter.
DEATH FROM DRUNKENNESS.—On Saturday
night an inquest was held before Mr. Payne, the city Coroner,
at the Britannia, Golden-lane, Barbican, on the body of Mary
Whitcombe, aged 45, the second member of her family who had
comecoslebc,
to a premature death in consequence of her dissipated
habits. It appeared that on Thursday last the deceased went
pensioner to Chelsea College to obtain his pension, and
inThe next morning she had more gin. About eight o'clock at
.itthheacourse of the day they became very much. intoxicated.
night a neighbour went to her lodgings, and after knocking in
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ROUSE OF LORDS, APRIL 13.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool-
sack at Four o'Clock, when five of the Judges were in
attendance. They also sat on the Woolsack. His
Lordship then read the questions which the House had
resolved to put to the Learned Judges, relating to the
Canada Reserves Bill ; and the Judges having received
from his Lordship a copy of the questions, retired.
The gallery was not opened to strangers until a quar-
ter to five o'clock.
On the motion of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY
several private bills were read a third time and passed.
Lord KENYON presented petitions from places in
the County of Northumberland against any further
grant to the Popish College of Maynooth.
The Earl of ROSEBERY, in the absence of the
Duke of Sussex, presented several petitions from Cupar
and other places in the County of Fife, against the con-
nexion of the Church with the State, and praying for the
release of John Thorogood. The Noble Lord had been
charged by his Royal Highness to state that he did not
concur in the sentiments or prayer of those petitions,
although he felt it a duty to present them, as they
were respectfully worded. On his own part, be (the
Earl of Rosebery) also disclaimed concurrence with the
views of the petitioners.
ASSAM TEA.
The Marquis of WESTMINSTER presented five
petitions from Temperance Societies, praying for encou-
ragement to the growth of Assam tea. He had no
sort of doubt that her Majesty's Ministers would do
everything to restore amicable relations with China, at
the same time that they would not allow the ho-
nour of this country to be tarnished.—(Hear.) He
had heard a great deal said about the trade in opium,
but he was sure that it would be very difficult to per-
suade the people of the eastern coasts of China
to abandon the use or abuse of a drug to
which they had been so long habituated, and
it would also be very difficult to prevent adven-
turous traders from supplying a commodity, from the
traffic in which they derived such large gains. How-
ever if our relations with China should be interrupted
for a long time it would be a great advantage to derive
a sufficient supply of tea (which had become to this
nation almost a necessary of life) from our own domi-
nions. He had no doubt that with encouragement
Assam would soon be able to furnish a sufficient
quantity of tea for our consumption ; and having
tried the quality of the tea grown in that province
he could say that it was very palateable already, and
he could not doubt that it would before long be equal to
the best of Chinese growth. The demand for tea would
be greatly increased by the extensive progress of the
" temperance pledge," in all parts of the United King-
dom, and especially in Ireland, where the progress of
the pledge had been so great as to alarm the Noble
Marquis opposite (Westmeath) perhaps more than the
uncourteous allusion to the " bilious scion of the house
of Derby." He hoped the prayers of the petitioners
would have some weight, and that the Legislature
would give every encouragement to the growing of tea
in the East Indies.
Tile Marquis of WESTMEATH had heard that
the people who took the temperance pledge in Ireland
did really abstain from the drinking of spirits,
but he did not believe they had taken to the drinking
of tea.—(A laugh.) If the only manifestation at the
temperance meetings in Ireland had been that of a
desire to abstain from spirits and to drink tea, he (the
Marquis of Westmeath) would have been very little
alarmed.
The Duke of WELLING TON presented a peti-
tion from the University of Oxford against the Clergy
Reserves Bill.
Viscount DUNCANNON presented returns rela-
tive to the Clergy Reserves ; and also a copy of corre-
spondence relative to New Zealand.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY presented
petitions from Down, against the intrusion of ministers
into the Church of Scotland. The Noble Marquis, in
moving that the petitions should lie on the table, ob-
served, that as the recess was now coming on, he
wished again to call the attention of the Noble Viscount
to the situation in which the Spanish Legion was placed.
He felt no doubt from the statement that had been
made, both by the Noble Viscount and the Noble Earl,
that the earliest possible means would be taken with
respect to the subject, but he wished that some-
thing should be done to put an end to what he must
call the paper currency medium, that was going on.
The Noble Marquis proceeded to read a letter from
one of the unfortunate claimants on the Spanish Go-
vernment, stating that he held a certificate, for which
in vain he had attempted to procure payment, and which
had been handed from tradesman to tradesman till up-
wards of twenty names had been endorsed upon it.
Tbe Noble Marquis in conclusion handed Lord Mel-
bourne a long list of questions about Spain, which he
said he would expect after Easter to be answered.
The Earl of HADDINGTON presented a petition
praying for a settlement of the Intrusion Question in the
Church of Scotland.

CORN-LAWS.
Earl RADNOR presented a petition in favour of the
repeal of the Corn-laws.
Lord HATHERTON said he had been requested
by Earl Fitzwilliam to give notice that on Tuesday,
May 26, he should move a resolution upon the Corn-laws.
TITHE COMMUTATION.
Lord REDESDALE presented a petition from the
Rev. Mr. Story, Vicar of Camberwell, stating that he
had commuted 1,160/. tithes for 1,100/., in considera-
tion of the greater facility for collection which he antici-
pated, whereas he had found that so minutely sub•di-
vided had the tithes become, that instead of having, as
before, been levied on about 300 persons, they were now
levied on upwards of a thousand—in many cases in sums
not above a shilling or two ; and 2001. was absorbed in
collecting expenses.
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY presented
a similar petition, and expressed a hope that some re-
medy would be applied.
The MOST REV. PRELATE then presented a great
number of petitions against the Clergy Reserves Bill.
The Bishop of LONDON presented several peti-
tions against the Clergy Reserves Bill in favour of
Church Extension, and against any further grant to the
College of Maynooth.
The Earl of WINCHELSEA presented several
petitions from East Kent in favour of Church Extension,
also a petition signed by 7,000 inhabitants of Liverpool,
against tho Irish Municipal Corporation Bill.
Lord MOUNTCASHEL presented a similar peti-
tion from the City of Dublin.
The Marquis of WESTMEATH said he under-
stood the Noble Viscount (Melbourne) to have given
his consent that the Dublin Corporation should be
heard at the bar, and as Counsel would appeal to the
evidence that had been given on the subject, he thought
it should be printed.
Lord DUNCANNON made an observation that
was inaudible.
The Marquis of WESTMEATH said that was ex-
cessively droll. The Government did not know whe-
ther any evidence had been given, or where it was to
be found. Good God, what an exhibition before the
country !
Lord MELBOURNE asked what documents the
Noble Marquis wished produced, the Report having
been printed, and being before the House ?
The Marquis of WESTMEATH said there was
not a single word in the Report relating to Dublin, ex-
cept a statement of one of the Corporation as to when
he expected to receive his salary.—( Laughter.)
He thought it was the business of her Majesty's Go-
vernment, when they were proposing a measure, to have
everything ready for the inrormation of Parliament.
Lord CLONCURRY said that if evidence were
heard in favour of the corporations of Ireland, he
trusted the same favour would be extended to the com-
mons of those corporations who had been robbed of
their vested rights by the patrons of those corporations,
and that inquiry would be made upon that subject also.
The Marqus of WESTMEATH agreed that that
would be a most proper mode of proceeding, and he
thought that a Select Committee of the House should
sit in the case of every individual corporation.—
(Hear, and a laugh.) The Noble Marquis then gave
notice that to-morrow he would move that there should
be laid on the table of the House a report of the evi-
dence taken before the Commission of Inquiry with re-
spect to the Corporation of Dublin.
The Earl of MOUNTCASHEL said, in allusion to
a remark of the Noble Lord opposite (Lord Cloncurry),
that if he meant to charge him with having appropriated
the property of any Corporation, he would rebut the
charge as he never had any thing to do with such pro-
perty.
Lord CLONCURRY said that he had not wished
to allude in particular to the Noble Earl, but he thought
the Noble Earl might be a good witness on the occa-
sion—(A laugh)—and that his evidence might afford
valuable assistance to the House.
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FRIVOLOUS SUITS ACT AMENDMENT
BILL.
Lord DENMAN, in moving the second reading of
this Bill, begged that the discussion upon it might be
postponed, and intimated that with regard to trespasses
the Act was not to apply, restricting the costs todamages
of forty shillings and upwards, which, however, he
thought was a provision calculated in most cases to re-
press vexatious litigation, and discourage frivolous suits
brought only for the sake of costs.
Lord WYN FORD said he would, in compliance with
the request of the Noble and Learned Lord, postpone
the objection he entertained to the Bill, but he doubted
much if the measure would be rendered effective by
merely denying costs to plaintiffs who had not a certain
amount of damages.
The Bill was read a second time.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE postponed till
after the holidays certain important petitions he had
to present respecting Irish Corporations.