The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-08 00:00:00

tHORNINC HERALD.]

Though use is described to be second nature,
and though even dirt is known to be agreeable
to those who become habituated to it, yet there
are some things which even long experience can-
not quite reconcile us to, and among these we
may number London noise, which the veriest
cockney in existence would be glad to be rid
of, of whom it may be said,"iu the words of the
poet,

" —.Evadere ad auras,
Noe opus, hie labor est."
Looking upon the rattling of carts and car-
riages, beyond their being a proof of wealth,
commerce, and prosperity, as blessings of a very
questionable description, we have been induced
to hail, with, as we now fear, somewhat too
eager an anticipation. Its abolition by means
of Mr. M'Adam's new system of road-making.—
We fear that we have been by far too sanguine
upon the occasion ; and that it is high time to
arrest the pulling up of any more of the pavement
of the streets, bad as it is, till the substitute pre-
sents a more promising appearance than it at pre.
sent puts on. Bishopsgate-street; Blackfriars.
bridge, the Old Bailey, and Regent-street,
present at this moment such miserable
scenes of mud, as induce us to exclaim, in
spite of the Poet's anathema " Hold
enough 1" —lf such as we at present see
it in the state of these Macadamized streets at
the cpmmencement of a winter, what is likely to
be their state at the end of it, when a succession
of frost and thaw shall have first penetrated
tol I i
fs neitiohoclilior‘tvetli vhitepistii n
these graves of horses'
ow ridiculous it
wilt be to see carriages stuck in the mud in
the middle of the street, and the drivers, ac-
cording to the fable, calling- upon Hercules
to help them out, or rather, perhaps, blas-
pheming the Colossus of Rhodes (roads), who
stuck them there ! For such places as Portland-
place, and most of the squares, the scheme may
answer well enough, but as applied to places of
much use and traffic, it has already proved itself
a complete failure ; and the inhabitants of Corn.
hill, Cheapside,and the Strand, must be content,
we fear, to pass the remainder of their lives in
the midst of noise and unpulverised granite.

Notwithstanding the heavy drawback to com-
merce at the port of Bristol, sae are informed
that several Bristol Dock Shares sold last week
for upwards of 1001. each share, being 801. more
than they would have fetched a short time since.
( Bath Journal.)
TIIE PLYDIOUTII BREAK.WATEII.—The account
we gave in our last of the damage which this
structure had sustained during the late gale was
strictly correci. Great quantities of stones were by
the violence of the sea thrown up from the south
side,rolled over the top,and plunged into the Sound
on the north side. The surface which before the
gale was nearly level, is now a complete mass of
irregular stones without form or order; the whole
appearance of the erection is quite changed. The
gales which have occurred since that on Tuesday
the 23d have also contributed to the destruction;
how far the real extent of damage may be we
are not enabled to state, but, if we might judge
from appearance, we should imagine it to be
grea t.—(Devonshire Freeholder.)
POST•OFFICE.—We believe that the impression
is very general that persons have a right to send
letters by stage-coaches and carriers, and in ge-
neral, otherwise than by post, provided they be sent
open. To correct this notion we think right to notice
a case which occurred the other day, which ought
to be generally known to prevent parties com-
mitting, in ignorance, similar offences. A
respect-
able mercantile house put up in a parcel 35 let"
tent, all open, and transmitted the same by n stage
coach. The parcel was addressed t respect-
them a corre-
spondent, who was directed to put wafers in the
different letters, and cause
to be imme-
diately delivered. An information having been
laid against the parties sending the letters, they
were immediately called on by the Post.rMaster-
General for
the' payment of the statutary penal-
tiest incurred, vii. 61. for each letter, and w hich in
he present .case amounted to 1791. The plea of the
having been sent open was urged, but was
flotitne
avail. By the Post-officeone-halfsta-
tutes,etdrstolof n
ofo
all penalties goes to the hi-
(lonian Mercury.) half to the King.—(Cale-
former, and the ()thin.

Several grarnPases,
or large fish of the whale
species, have lately been seen In toe Channel
about Dungeness, one of which was struck by a
man with a boathook from a vessel, when the
fish struck
the vessel's bottom violently with its
tail, and disappeared.

OLD BAILEY, DEC. 7.

CONDUCT OF TIIE SUMMONING OFFICER.

On Saturday last a disclosure of certain reprehensible con-
duct on the part of the officer appointed to summon juries for
Middlesex, came 'out by accident. When Mr. Ames, of
Lower-street, Islington, applied to be excused from serving in
thd evening, on account of urgent private business, the appli-
cation being refused, Mr. Ames stated that several of his neigh-
hours had been excused by paying a gratuity—hence he con-
sidered that those who never tampered with the officer should
be allowed a reasonable indulgence. This statement led to an
inquiry, when Mr. Griffith Todd, and several other gentlemen
of the Jury, fully established its correctness. The Court then
ordered the case to be brought forward this day, and gave notice
for the Summoning Officer and his deputy (the person charged
with taking bribes) to attend. At 9 o'clock this morning, Mr.
Serjeant Arabin, Sir James Shaw, and Alr:Sheriff Brown took
their meats : whereupon Mr. Shelton, the Clerk of the Arraigns,
inquired whether the officers whose presence was required were
in attendance ? when hp was informed that the principal was
in COurt, but his deputy was not.
Mr. Serjeant AItABIN then asked whether the gentlemen of
the Jury who on Saturday made the accusation were present, as
a long list of names had been given in ?
Mr. Wontner said he was informed that some of them were
coming.
The Learned JUDGE said that a number of persons made
statements the other day, which, although inculpatory of their
own conduct, insomuch as they had been induced to give
bribes to avoid a public duty, yet they had, by such statement,
acted, when called upon, in a most candid manner. Ile could
not, however, but express surprise that the parties were not
in attendance.
A gentleman in the jury-box said, that the jurymen who
were the principal complainants came principally from the
Islington district ; but there were several to attend from his
side (Chelsea) of the metropolis. Pursuant to the request of
the Court, he gave them notice yesterday.
Sir JAMES Straw then gave directions that officers should
be dispatched immediately : but the Judge said,. it was expe-
dient to know whether the parties implicated were in attendance
or not.
The Summoning Officer then stood forth, and stated that
the person who acted as his deputy (and who had been accused
of malpractices) left town yesterday for Bristol.
JUDGE.—How came it that lie left just now, when lie must
have been aware of the requisition to attend the Court ?
Officer.—l believe he is gone in consequence of the death of
a brother, or brother-in-law.

Alderman.—This conduct is extremely wrong. It is only a
fews days since this matter was before the Court, and it is impos-
sible but to think that the party whose presence is required must
have known of the fact; or, if he did not, it was the impera-
tive duty of the summoning officer, who is answerable for the
conduct of those he employs, to have informed him.
UnG E.—Officer, you were here on Saturtlay,and heard what
passed, and what the Court ordered. It was therefore your duty
to have produced your deputy, or have communicated with him
as a matter of course. Pray, Sir, have you seen him since Sa-
turday last ?
Officer.—(Hesitating.)—Yes, my Lord, for about three mi-
nutes, but "I said nothing about it.
Alderman.—Upon your solemn oath did you not tell him of
the charge brought against him on Saturday last. It seems im-
probable you should'have overloOked it *hen its importance to
you is so very considerable.
Officer.—lndeed I did not. _ _ _

Mr. Sheriff' IInGWN here interposed, and said, that he knew
how to deal with the officer who had been guilty of such
blatneahle neglect in not giving the information required by
the Court.
Ju DO E.—There is no excuse for such conduct. This sum-
moning officer was here, and heard what passed. Ile then
exculpated himself in the best manner be was able. The Court,
in order not to interrupt the pressing business then before it,
and in order ti allow reasonable time, postponed the investiga-
tion, and gave strict orders that the persons who were supposed
to have taken bribes should have been in attendance. It ap-
pears, however, that the parties have met, and the officer,
whose duty it was, for his own sake,"to have done so, has ne-
glected to tell his deputy of the matter. Ho knew the case de-
manded inquiry to-day.
The officer replied that he was not aware that it was speci-
&ally ordered for this day, but the Judge appeared to doubt
the assertion.

Sir J. Shaw again expatiated on the extraordinary and cul-
pable conduct of the officer. It was quite clear from the ac-
knowledgment of respectable persons, that bribes had been ten-
dered and refused ; therefore, as the matter involved the privi-
lege of all persons eligible to serve on Juries, and the dignity
of the Court, as well as the character of one of its officers, he
would again express his determination that the subject should
be fully investigated.
The CO UILT then conferred for a considerable time ; after
which,

SIT ;TAMES SHAW sllid, the Court had come to the deter.

mination that a public prosecution should he instituted against
the summoning officer, and that process of action should issue
forthwith.

The communication was deprecated by the officer, who re-
minded the Coutt that he hoped they would alter their deter-
mination, on account of having a large family.
Mr. Serjeant AttAn►x told him he had no right to complain,
as he had brought all upon himself by his own conduct and
wilful neglect. —The matter here terminated for the present.

James Cox, aged 17, stood indicted upon a charge of having
received a watch from -- Carroll (who was convicted a day
or two back for stealing the same watch), knowing it to be
stolen.

T. Poole.—l am a labourer, at Acton ; I gave a watch to
Mr. Foster to be cleaned.
Mr. S. Foster.--I am a watch-maker at Acton ; the last wit-
ness give me a watch to clean : on the following Wednesday I
went out between 3 and 4 o'clock, and left my wife at home ;
lett the watch hanging in the window; when I came home
about 5 o'clock, the watch was gone ; I saw It on the Saturday
after, in the possession of the constable.
Sophia Foster.—l am the wife of the last witness ; he left
me at home on the Wednesday ; after he was gone, Carroll
came in and asked what would be the expence of repairing his
watch ; I told I could not tell. About ten minutes after he
was gone, I missed Mr. Poole's watch ' • I did not see the pri-
soner at all; before Carroll came in, I had put the watch on
the counter. _ _

Wheatley.--I live with my brother, who is a
watchmaker at Hammersmith. I remember a cart stopping►
next door, in which sat the prisoner and Carroll; the latter
came into the shop, and was talking to my sister. I heard
him say he wanted to look at a gold seal ; she sent me for my
brother, and on my return with him, I met both Carroll and
Cox in the cart.

Wheatley.—f am watchmaker at Hammersmith. I re.
collect being fetched by my sister to the shop, and on my ar-
rival discovered that I had been robbed of a gold chain ; my
sister told me, the person who came into the shop had got into
a cart, in which was another man. I then pursued the cart,
and saw it in Phillhnore-place, Kensington ; the prisoner was
upon the pavement, out of the cart ; they were both taken into
custody, and searched ; Cox said he knew nothing whatever of
Carroll; they were searched by Bayley, the constable; there
was a watch found on one of them.

Bayley proved having been sent to take the prisoners,
and that he searched them, and found as above stated.

Daniel Harwell--I am hostler at the Ited Lion, Acton, and
saw the prisoner come in company with Carroll in a cart, to
bait the horses at the inn, as well as to dine.
This being the whole of the evidence on the part of the pro-
secution, Mr C. Pim.t.irs begged to submit to the Court,
that there was no case to go to the Jury, upon these grounds.
The prisoner was in this instance indicted- for receiving (and
not for the theft) the watch, knowing it to be stolen. Now, he
contended, that as it had been, Cox-had gone in the cart with
Carroll, and must have waited outside during the period occu-
pied in the commission of the theft, Cox must be considered in
the light of a principal in the crime, and not as a receiver.—
Under thaw circumstances, he (Mr. Phillips) submitted, that
no case had been made out against Cox to go to the Jury.
Mr. SerjeantAnanni having overruled the objection, sum-
med up, and the Jury found the prisoner Gnilty.
ki.ANSLAUGIiT M..... WiMam Sparks was charged with hay.
tug struck H. Smith, and thereby caused his death, The pri-
soner was sitting in a public-house, in the palish of St. Leo-
nod, Slioreditch, with a little dog in his lap, and the deceased
coming in, said, " That's a pretty dog." This led to further
conversation during which the prisoner hit the deceased upon
the bead, who ied within six hours.—Two surgeons, however,
who had open the head, said, that its appearance was such as
not to make the to say positively that, his death was caused
by the blow received horn the prisoner. The Jury, therefore,
under the direction of the Judge, acquitted the pnsoner.

EDINBURGH AND GLASOOW RAlLWAY.—Extract of a
letter from Glasgow, received yesterday, dated the 4th last, :
" A numerous meeting of Noblemen, bankers, and principal
inhabitants of this neighbourhood, took place yesterday, for the
purpose of regulating a great national concern, a railway between
this and Edinburgh which will connect the trades of the
German and Western' Ocean. The Duke of Hamilton took the
chair. I refer you to our papers of Monday next for the parti-
culars ,resolutions, &c, The shares I believe are all'filled up,
with the exception of 400, which will be left at the diposal of
the Committee. We are surprised with the number of applies.
dons from your capital."

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

ritelsEpeLetAabNieC
Jury,HOL OCCURRENCE.
and Mao
nvderayy night an inquisition was taken at the 'Wangled
garet Eldred,
Tavern, Brook-street, Ratcliffe, before J. W. ITNWIN, £SF,
aged
33,
wifenfonm:tri.eownsoefptlitieEbioddryedo,fa3,lrertse.n3elaarr;
surgeon.
Airs. Sarah Hollitt, sworn—l reside next door to the decelltett
in Glass-house-tields, Ratcliffe: on Monday night, the 29th
ult., the husband of the deceased came to me and requested that
I would come to his wife as soon as possible. I intmediet
elI
went, and on entering the bed-chamber found the deMs,
lying with her clothes on. I asked what was the matter, and
the deceit:4ld answered feebly, that she was very ill, and that it
was all the effect of passion ; I asked her why she put herself
in a passion, particularly when she was situated as she sal
(the deceased was in her last month of pregnancy') ; the ace.*
ed said that she and her husband had had a few words,. and
that she was more to blame than he ; that he had stayed nut
later that night than she wished, and that she flew at him di'
reedy he opened the street-door. I told the deceased that it
would have been much better if she had held her peace in her
present situation; deceased said she wished she had. No further
conversation took place at that time; I undressed her, put her to
bed, and sent for Dr. Harkness, who immediately attended. 1
remained with the deceased all that night. After Dr. Harkness
went away, the deceased said she was getting very ill, and desired
me to call her husband to the bedside; on his approaching
her, the deceased said, " Joseph, 1 hope the Lord will forgive
you and me, for one is as bad as the other; be kind to my
babes, for I am ►oing to that place from whence I shall never re.
turn." I desire the husband to go again for the doctor, and net
to come back without him. He did so, and Mr. Harkness On
attended. The deceased became more composed, and told me she
thought she had broken a blood-vessel. Shortly after this, she
,
asked me if I did not think it would have been better if she had
told the doctor she had been kicked by her husband. I per'
suaded her to' tell the truth, which she agreed to do. On Wed-
nesday she seemed somewhat better, but in the course of the
day she became worse, and expired about ten o'clock on that
night.
In answer to a question from the Jury, the witness said that
the deceased had told her before her death that her husband
tli
had given her a dreadful kick.
Mrs. Sarah Croker sworn.—On 3londay night I was als.ot
requested by Mr. Eldred, the husband of the deceased, to vim
his wife, and found her in bed as described by the last wit.ness:
All her care seemed to be for her husband and children, and
she ascribed the cause of her indisposition to the effects of pas.:
isoinonth.e
iilnnobrs,ewrsiTitelhafteratreqduanT.ity of bleod about the bed, and
reside at her head, and said that if she ever got over it, site hopetlett
Ie
dzensEleit.zia,
annedynnonhiinsyswesokrnin.—g Ihewraswhsaent taifloerdohnerTushesedsahyl,f
would give her grace to overcome her passion. I sareitil:oW
ceased frequently alter, and she never attributed any
conduct to husband.
;tau. e l Harkness
On
Johnl
Ina t clai ;
the lower parts of her person a quantity of coaelated 101_
~.,1„
the evening, I was called to attend the deceased, and foil_
,doet,,
but there did not appear to be a sufficient quantity to occen:
alarm. I administered such medicines as I mouldered
.easc_i_!,
ndasywseorninn—igllita,mabaoustuttgoea'enlocn' kanei(Sul
listed to do her good, and they appeared to have the
etla,u,',.`:
effect, as she somewhat recovered. I continued to att d n_1::
till she died. This deceased never in the slightest degree Allen
Honed her hasband's having kicked her. I have esantinecannot
body after death in the presence of Dr. Conquest, but that'
say that death ensued from the loss of blood alone, buta.lr„
in
pprr.cgcnaenntrqyt;est
to Tether with a laceration that presented itself on the part eve,s.
mentioned, produced her dissolution, as she was far advanc %
of Finsbury-square, aw rn.-1 %Via presertr,
with the last witness when the body of deceased was 01)niend
and on examining minutely the parts already named, 1,",,ed
there were considerable marks of violence. The parts a11u43.
tion about three-quarters of an inch in length. I
to were very livid and tumefied; there was also a small latent'
tensive extravasation of blood produced by the injury, vel
was the immediate cause of death. after
The. Coroner recapitulated the evidence, and the Jury,
~s,
a long deliberation, returned a verdict of ihforislooghter gaidnea
Mr. Lldred, the husband, who was immediately elWrchell
on the Coroner's warrant, and committed to prison.
found antleicii

GeorgeSuiciDE public-housel t n i
ignh t the
Viarnardilougru-street,
Illcios, the Coroner, on the body of Mr. Joseph PenrCe,
put u period to his life.—Mr. Robert Pearce, residing nit '.7,...
48, Greek-street, Soho, stated, that he was brother to t1,1„11:1;..
ceased, who was forty years old, and lived at No. 11.4,4rw0
dour-street. About nine o'clock yesterday moridn*, he nd
sent for to the house of the deceasedanti his rriviu he •‘3l -
, on a tie bud
him on the bed, still alive, but quite unable to sPeak* I weed
a mort dealierate wound in the neck, and his person was t'e*--'
with blood. There was a surgeon present,- who declared the
wound to be mortal, and in two or three minutes lifteructi
rival the deceased expired. It would appear that the deceit.
had been shaving himself when he committed the dreadinil
act, as theashaving apparatus was on the dressing-tablc,)BA.4
also a razor, covered with blood. About two months up
in a
was taken at .fr.
father died, since which the deceased appear,ed, ;11.1)/v„alS, and
melancholy state, and frequently complained °' ''''' ' dto
that he felt a defect in his intellect : his friends endeavoured .
he always seemed despond-
cheer him, but it was of no avail, Soho, before
whoI:
ing. Witness waswith
night, and left. him in his usual state of mmu.—v r,ul,o__
" That the deceased destroyed himself, being at the time in
nn
insane state. of mind."—lle has left a wife and two you g
children. n lir
M a LANCIIO I. Y ACCIDE II T.—YesterdaY evening a
...,,v_
ouisition was taken at the Bricklayers' Arms, Eliza-street, ;I;
Fields, Chelsea, before Tuomm, H Too s, Esq., DeputY (-4.1,
tier for 'Westminster on the bodies of John Paton flumpline ,
the
hint till eight o'clock
.the pr.icectlotg,
and Alichael Newsjaul, who came by their deaths under
,i
following melancholy circumstances :—Mr. John Saele"a
Emery, builder, stated, that the deceased men were cirri
by him as labourers, to take down a brick arch, at whin Ie y
nw apprehension
st i )
ei
sn ivn who o hour,
woef
r
were at work, when the arch fell on them and buried hero,-t
'Witness was standing near at the time, and had not the IT;
edbatini;greesii.nret,Tbhcooetrhmrogebouniratewteedredealu.
thisg 'Three
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Jury, after a few minutes consultation, returned a verdict
" Accidental Death," with a deodand upon the areh_..........,°164

COURSE OF EXCHANGE, December 7. i.
Amsterdam
Ditto, at Sight
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Antwerp
Haburg!)
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Paris, 8 Day's sight
Ditto
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Berlin 7IO ,°llf
„I
Frank Worn the Main
Petetsbargh 0
Vienna lO .
Trieste lO 9 Etreetirs
Madrid
...••••" fitfectiti
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35 Eggeti"
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...........
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Leghorn
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Malta 44i---Vellicet Hal. .. i .... 9r7 34-1
-Naples 39 Of.
Palermo
Lisbon
Oporto
IttoJatteiro
Bahia 49
Dublin .... 9i Cork 94 pet Cent.

BULLION.

0 Per flt.
Portugal Golil,in Coin / .0 0
3 17 9
[Foreign Gold, in Bars
0 o
New Doubloons . 0 4 lot
New Dollars..
0 t_.....2„......••-____—°
411ver Standard in Bars,

BIRTU. of
shoberdOn the,s."Bthulalns.".6,f the
die I::hytaot: John F. Monkhoose, 11'14"

On tl_fe2tl
of IfenryStapylton,
MARRIED. lf ;tittle
Temple, Esq., barrister at taw, to Mary Frances, eldest "3"Spq.
mt., at Norton, Marshall Robinson, of the,''," tor
of Norton, in the county of Durham ~
On the 4th inst., in the island of Jersey, lienrY 11'11r
rieft
RN., of Neath Abbey, Glatnorgansbire to Juba 111 e
10,
second daughter of George Struve, E5q..4.1) of St.

DIED Idler •
On Sunday morning last, in the 70th year of his art_ohtill,
severe and lingering iliness, the Rev. Lancaster iVeL tre.
upwards of 40 years rector of the parish of Lawton, Chetony
On the 20th-ult., at Barnet, Herts, ThomaK Booths
years surgeon of that place, aged 54. aged
On the 3d inst., at his house at Leatherbead, in Surrey,
72, Henry &pull, Ebq. -...•••••••••

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