The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-10 00:00:00

COURT OF ALDERMEN.

A Court was held after the Common Hall was dis-
solved, according to custom.

Sheriff WHELTON took occasion to complain that
the Governor of Necvgate had not made a sufficiently
early communication to him of the statement made by
Courvoisier of the murderer's intention to destroy
himself.

Sir PETER LAURIE deprecated the accusation of a
man in his absence, and moved that the subject be re-
ferred to a Committee, which was accordingly done.

THE JEWISH MISSION TO

DAMASCUS.

Copy of a letter signed John Brittain Shenston and
William Henry Black, to Sir Moses Montefiore, the
benevolent head of the mission to the East in favour
of the persecuted and calumniated Jews :
London, July 3, 1840.
Sta,—We, the undersigned, being ministers of the
two ancient congregations of Christians observing the
seventh day, Sabbath, in London, deeply commiserating
the afflictions which your persecuted Jewish brethren
in the East have lately suffered, and still are suffering,
beg leave to assure you of our joy that you have under-
taken the humane and pious task of endeavouring to
obtain their reliaf. From the first time we heard of
these calamities we have offered public prayers in their
behalf, and we cease not to implore the merely of
heaven upon the scattered sons of Abraham for whom
sit e especially feel it our duty to make intercession
always.
Fully convinced of the falsehood of those calumnies
which have been cast upon your nation by those mali-
cious persons who have imputed to you practices in the
exercise of your religion that are abhorrent to human
nature, we thus bear our humble testimony of good
will towards you, and we fervently hope that Divine
.P.rdoevrti daeknicnee nainayd,hbortihnggivo abundant
you
back
ag a
nsuccessin
safety to yourand
triumph to the shores of Great Britain.
Committing you to. His protection who alone can
make you thui ttit-proitP6r:"
We remain, yourd'very faithfully,
(Signed) JOHN BRIT'TAIN SIIENSTON.
WILLIAM HENRY BLACK.
To Sir Moses Montefiore, &c., &c.

COPY OF SIR MOSES MONTEFIORE'S REPLY.

Grosvenor-gate, Park-lane, July 6, 1840.

REVEREND SIRS—I have the honour to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter of the 3d inst., in which you
are pleased to bear your unbiassed testimony as Chris-
tians of your good-will towards myself, of your disbelief
of the false and calumnious charges made against my
brethren, and of your assurance that your prayers have
been, and will be, continually offered up in behalf of my
people.

Permit me to assure you how deeply I feel this token
of your kind sympathy, and to say that I esteem and
highly value the prayers of all good men, and you may
rest assured that my own intercessions will be offered up
with your's, that He who alone can make me prosper,
will grant to me and my mission his Divine protection,
that I may return in safety to this happy land, having
succeeded to the full extent of your most benevolent
wishes.—l have the honour to be, Rev. Sirs, your very
faithful servant,

(Signed) MOSES Morn. zFlonE.
To the Rev. Messrs. J. B. Shenston and W. H. Black.

Yesterday Mr. Child, the partner of Mr. David W.
Wire, who accompanies Sir Moses Montefiore in this
mission to the East, for the service of the persecuted
Jews, waited upon tha Lord Mayor, and received his
Lordship's signature to copies of the humane and spi-
rited resolutions which were passed on Friday, the 3d
instant, at the Mansion-house, amidst such loud and una-
nimous acclamations. The resolutions were then sent
to the Ambassadors of all the nations represented in
England, for the purpose of being forwarded to their re-
spective Governments.

CONDITION OF THE DEAF AND DUMB IN
EA RLY 'TIMM—The majority cf those who are in the me-
lancholy condition of being deprived of hearing are either deaf
at birth, or become so during the period of infancy, and hence they
are necessary without the faculty of speech. The helplessness oc-
casioned by the want of the power of oral communication, did not
for many centuries gain them that degree of attention end com-
miseration which it seems so powerfully to demand. Among
some nations, in axcient times, these unfortunate beings were
the objects of a species of proscription, being supposed to la-
boor under the curse of Heaven. By the laws of Justinian,
those:who were deaf and dumb from their birth were incapacitated
from making a will, or from emancipating a slave, and were
subject to other civil disabilities. " St. Augustine declares,"
says Mr. Baker, " that the deaf and dumb are shut out from
obtaining religious knowledge ; and many respectable ecclesias-
tics, in the time of the Abbe de l'Epee, openly condemned
his undertaking. The benevolent Abbe also informs us, that
parents considered it a discredit to have deaf and dumb chil-
dren ; and they believed that they fulfilled every claim such
offspring could have upon them, by merely supplying their ani-
mal wants, concealing them from the eyes of the world within
the walls of a cloister, or in some other obscure abode. He also
asserts, that in some uncivilised countries the deaf and dumb
were in his time regarded as monsters, an i were put to death
as soon as their calamity was ascertained."—Curtis' Advice to
the Deaf.
THE DAYS OF QUEEN ANNE.—Mr. Grant-
ley Berkeley's new novel, entitled " Sandron Hall ; or, the
Days of Queen Anne," seems to address itself in an especial
manner to that appetite for the exciting and the adventurous,
which has recently been raised to such a dangerous pitch by
the " Jack Shepherds" and " Oliver Twists" of the day. It
traces the career of a young man of family and fortune through
all the phases of a " London life" during the days of Queen
Anne, including his adventures among gamblers, players,
gypsies, thieves, swindlers. and swash-bucklers of all degrees
and denominations. On tne other hand, the hero's high con-
nexions bring him into contact with all the celebrites of the
Court circle—from the Alwcenas of Strawberry-hill downwards,
together with all the wits of the time—Swift, Addison, Steele,
&c., &c. The design is as bold as it is comprehensive ; and it
seems to be filled up with considerable spirit. The notorious
Colonel Charteris plays a conspicuous part in the story.
FEMALESUICIDE.—Wednesday,Emtna Brown,
a fine young woman, 20 years of age, died at the London Hos-
pital from the effects of vitriol, of which she swallowed a large
quantity. It appeared from what could be learned from her
relatives, the!, she had left her parents to live with a young
man, and in a quarrel which she had with a neighbour the
latter threatened to inform her husband, as he was supposed
to be, that she was in the habit of seeing other men in his
absence, she in a paroxysm of rage swallowed the fatal draught.
Another young woman, named Mary Brown, is on the point
of death in the same institution from the effects of oxalic acid,
which she had swallowed. It appeared that an illegitimate
child which she had was taken away from her by its father,
and that had such an effect upon her that she resolved upon
self-destruction.
On Monday last Mr. W. Mutton, of Northgate,
in this city, now in the 72d year of his age, walked from Lon.
don to Canterbury, being a distance of 57 miles. He started
frsm Smithfield market at five in the morning, and reached
Canterbury the same night.—Kentish Gazette.

The following letter from a labouring man details
some strange proceedings on the part of the law offi-
cers of the Crown. We do not vouch for the correct-
nes sof all the statements, but the very circumstance that
the writer and his friend are not brought to trial, leads
us to infer that there is something wrong. If only one
half of his statements are correct, he has been most
cruelly treated, and we readily publish his letter in
order to force on an investigation :
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—For nearly six months I have been hunted
and harassed by the agents of the Government. I was
arrested, examined, and conveyed to prison on the 19th
of March last, brought again up for re-examination
on the 23d ; thrust back• again, or, if you please, re-
manded until the 30th ; re-examined again, and com-
mitted to Newgate for trial, on a charge of having like
the great Nazarene reformer, spoken seditious words at
the Trades' Hall, Bethnal-green, on the evening of
the 14th of January, two days prior to the infamous
outrage committed by the police on a peaceable assembly
in the same place ; after a fortnight's imprisonment, du-
ring which 1 hal to submit to many indignities, I was libe-
rated on bail of 5001., and two sureties of 2501., each.ta
appear and take my trial at the April Session. I attended
seven successive days for that purpose, being ever anxious
to prove to a jury of my countrymen, that I had not been
guilty of any crime either morally or legally ; at the
close of the Session I ascertained that the case was re-
moved into the Court of Queen's Bench, and that the
undefinable and indefinite crime of having spoken sedi-
tious xords was not all they had against me. On my appli-
cation to the Crown Office for a copy of the indictment,
I found myself coupled with Charles Hodgson Neesom,
and conspiracy and riot added to sedition ; the two
latter charges which this indictment contain, the police
force are guilty of, and if tried before God and Mei,-
country, will not stand acquitted.
Ever since the removal of the case into the Court of
Queen's Bench, I have been visited by policemen, act-
ing in the capacity of lawyer's clerks, giving me
notice after notice of trial. The thing has been
procrastinated two Terms in the Queen's Bench.
Myself and Mr. Neesom attended this Court four days
last week, but no opportunity was afforded us of meeting
those conspirators against our liberty and lives face
to face. We were informed that if we would plead
guilty, that is if we would become guilty of lying, in
that Court where all are sworn to speak the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth, the Attorney-
General would discharge us on our own recognizances,
with an understanding that we should not be calved
up for judgment, which (lifer we rejected, knowing our-
selves innocent, and our accusers guilty. We were then
informed that our case would stand over till next term.

Mr. Editor, why is justice thus delayed—why are we
to be thus harrassed, and our homes ruined ? Does the
Bit of Rights sanction these things? I think
not. Yet we are subject to them. We should
not have had reason to complain of the law's
delay, had they any confidence in themselves. The
Attorney and Solicitor-Generals, with three other learned
gentlemen to assist them, would not have been afraid
to attack two poor working men. Their offer of mercy
to us, was not intended as mercy for us, but merely for
the POLICEMEN, who would have had to answer such
questions as would have developed their lives, charac-
ters, and behaviour, of which some of them would not
be over-proud. These plotters and their employers,
Mr. Editor, arc brimful of loyalty, but it is like the
loyalty of the Samaritan nobles to Jezebel. I reserve
things for the day of trial.
Sir, I shall feel obliged by your allowing this to be
inserted in your widely circulated paper, that the public
may be apprised of the further procrastination of our
trial, which is no doubt intended to wear out the pa-
tience of our friends ; as, being working men, they are
aware that of ourselves we cannot bear the expense of
bringing up witnesses. so as to make them proper re-
muneration.—l am, Sir, your's most respectfully,

. -
GEO. E. BOGGIS.
5, Fleming-street, Kingland-road,
Bth July, 1840.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Brighton Gazette.)
PORTSMOUTH. —The Ring dove, 16, Commander Stew-
art, was at Bermuda, all, well, on the tith May, having re-
cently come from Barbadoes to receive her orders to pro-
ceed to England. It was expected that she would reach
Spithead by September next. The Satellite, 18, Com-
mander Robb, would also shortly leave the station to be
prid cff. ,At the above data the Vice-Admiral was in port
with his flag in the Winchester frigate.
The Alban steamer, recently commissioned at Woolwich
by Mr. King, is nearly ready for sea ; reported for service
in the West Indies.

Letters from the Childers, 16, Commander Halsted, of
the 15th April, from Trincomalee, state that the crew had
suffered much from dysentery, and the heat of the climate,
which had been most oppressive. The vessel was refitting
in haste, to proceed to Calcutta to join the squadron des-
tined for Singapore.
The Fly, 18, Commander Loch, may be shortly looked
for, from the Brazil station, with a large freight of dollars,
&c., and to be paid off, having been upwards of four years
in commission.

The new brig Albatross, 18, building at this port, will
shortly be launched. The Seatlower cutter, Lieut. Ro-
billiard, is refitting, to retbrn to her station at .►ersey.
The naval obituary for the last quarter reports the de-
mise of three Admirals, eight Captains, eight Comman-
ders, twelve Lieutenants, three Masters, five Surgeons,
four Assistant. Surgeons, and five Pursers. In the corps
of Royal Marines are one Colonel, one Major, one Cap-
tain, and one First Lieutenant.

The Thuntierer, 84, Captain Berkeley, reached Malta,
from Lisbon, on the 20th Julie, and the Asia, 84, Captain
Fisher, was shortly to quit the station for England, to be
paid off, having been upwards of four years in commission.
The Admiral, Sir Robert Stopford, was on his way to the
Levant, and would call at Vourla Bay.
The Cambridge, 78, Captain Barnard, is at Spithead,
from Plymouth, destined for the Mediterranean, to relieve
the Bellerophon 78. She takes out the Hon. Ralph and
Lady Abercromby for Genoa, calling at Lisbon; also
marines and boys for Sir Robert Stopford's fleet.
The Nautilus, 10, Lieutenant Beaufoy, ready for sea in
Plymouth Sound, is to return to the Wert Coast of Africa
to complete her term of service.
The Sapphire end Athol, troop ships, recently from Que-
bec, are employed in conveying the 58th regiment from
this garrison to Leith, for duty at Glasgow. They will
return with the 78th regiment.
Lieut. Charles Richards, 1826, Flag Lieutenant to Rear
Admiral ( Superintendent) Bouveric, is advanced to the
rank of Commander.

AT SPlTHEAD—Cambridge, 78.
IS HARBOUR—Britannia and Victory (Port Flag ships),
Vanguard, Royal George yacht, Excellent, Siaflower,
Echo, and Flag tenders.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
(LLOYD'S.)

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

Arrivals.—Lady M'Naghten, Ewing, from New South
Wales, in the Downs—sailed from Sydney 16th of March.
Arrivals at Sydney (New South Wales).—Tamar,
Northwood, Feb. 22, from Calcutta ; Her Majesty's fri-
gate Peacock, Hudson, returned to port with part of false
keel gone; Curlew, Watson, from Port Philip; Medway,
Griffin, put back leaky, bound to London; Briton, Eager,
24, and John Pcrie, from Newcastle; Union, Webster,
from London and Rio ; Earl Grey, Surfien, 25, London
and Cape; Augusta Jessie, Sparkes, from Dublin, and
sailed 13th March for Norfolk Island; Her Majesty's
ship Buffalo, Wood, from Quebec and Hobart Town ;
Melrose, Nicholson, 25, from Port Adelaide ; Sophia,
Johns, 26, from London and Cumberland ; Osgood, from
Liverpool ; Bengal, Carson, from Portsmouth; Skerno,
from Newcastle; Woodbridge, Dobson, from Shecrness
and Cape ; Hannah, Liddell, March 2, from Kafi ;
Sir William Wallace, March 9, put back leaky ;
with 160 barrels of sperm oil ; Marian Watson B,iscoe,
from Hobart Town ; Abbcrton, Calt, from Sourabaya ;
Sally Ann, Cummings, from Port Nicholson; Hannah,
Barker, from Wangaroa ; Competitor, Pritchard, from
Liverpool ; James Holmes, Johns, from Adelaide ;
Regis, Brend, 11th, from Sourabaya ; Harlequin, Kyle,
and John Dunscombe, Hampton, from New Zealand;
Rapid, Devlin, from Launceston, U. S.; Ship Yin.
cennes, Wilkes, from a cruise ; Bee, Davis, from Kias-
sara ; Dcrset, Robertson, from Port Philip ; Jewess,
Johnson, from Port Philip ; Indemnity, Roberts, from
Launceston ; Abercrombie, crew from Hobart Town ;
British Sovereign, Spurliag, 12th, from the South Seas ;
Martha, Lancaster, from New Zealand ; William, Thom,
14th, from Launceston ; Anna Watson, Stewart, from
Sourahaya; Jame a Stewart, Doghcrty, from whale fish-
ery , - Nautilus, Alloway, from Norfolk Island.

THE HEIGHT OF IMPUDENCE.---SOlllO time
ago a fellow was charged in the Glasgow Police Court, with
stealing a herring barrel from a Person in Stockwell-street.
After the charge had been proved, the principal accuser thus
addressed the Magistrate :—" Deed, Sir Bailie
is neathing to
somer
the man at the
a is
;H the stealing o' the barrel'e stole my sign-broil last week, and
vi hat
does your Honour think he did wi t . Magistrate—. That
greathis
t,
ireokgs. rogue;
would be hard for me to say." Witness—" Neel, Sir, I'll
tell ye. He brought it into my ain shop, wi' my ain name
on't, and offered to sell me it, as he said he thought it would
be o' mair use to me than onybody else."—Laird of Logtrn.
SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. JOY, QUEEN'S
Con NSEL. —We regret to learn the sudden death of the above
named gentleman, which took place at his villa, Brompton, on
Tuesday last. The learned gentleman hid sat down to dinner
with Mrs. Joy, about seven o'clock, in his usual health and
spirits, and while he was taking his fish, the butler perceived
him suddenly turn very pale, but almost in an instant after his
colour returned. However, no sooner had that occurred than
he fell back in his chair, and seemed to froth a little from the
mouth, and heave with slight convulsions for a few seconds.
The butler instantly conveyed him to his bed-room and untied
his neck-cloth, &c. Medical attendance was procured with the
least possible delay, boa it was of no avail, for life was already
extinct. It is impossible to convey a notion of the grief into
which the melancholy event his plunged Mrs. Joy and her die-
, cmaohde young family.

Betting-10 to 6 agst J. ffv ;sto 2 agst Teleta (tkn) ; and
5, to 1 agst Menelppa.
Capote made pl3s, toliowed by Teleta and Jeffy to the Duke's
stand, where Jelly and Bob Peol jnined• Capote, a fin, race,
and ended in Jeffy bvating Bob Peel by a Lead, and Capote by
a length, nothing else was near.
Sweepstakes of 10 sous. for 2 yrs old, Est 111 b, and 3 yrs 9st,
new T. Y. C. The winner to be sold for 200 sovs, if de-
manded, &c., (5 subs.)
Mr. Edwarit's Remnant, 5 yrs (E. Edwards) I
Lord Liel.field's fby Sir Hercules, out of Ulriest, 3 yrs., 2
Mr. Newton's b by Dr. Syntax, out of Fanchon, 3 yrs
General Grosvenoi's Blue Pill, 2 vrs .
Betting 3to lon Remnant. Lord Lichfield's filley made
the running to the ropes, where Remnant took it up, and won
cleverly by a length, a beautiful race for second was won by a
head only.

SECOND OCTOBER MEETING, 1842.
The Garden Stakes of 100 sons, T. M. M.
Duke of Rutland's Flambeau, 4 yrs, Bst I Ilb ; Lord G. Ben
tinck's Grey Ithlton, 3 yrs, ist 21b ; Lord Lichfield's Feather,
4 yrs, Est 41b.