The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-22 00:00:00

NEW COURT.I

Frederick Williams, aged 22, was indicted for steal•
ing, on the 20th of September,- one coat and one cane,
of the value of 71., the property of the Right Hon.
Fox Maule ; a coat, value 21., the property of the
Right Hon. John Henry Viscount Templeton ; one
coat and one cloak, value 31., the property of Henry
Robert Fergu3on, Esq. ; and one coat and one scarf;
value 51., the property of John Benjamin Heath; Esq.,
in the dwelling-house of Henry Frederick Stevenson.
The pr:soner pleaded Guilty to the whole charge.
The COMMON SERGEANT told him that he had been
twice before convicted, and he now confessed to a
wholesale robbery, to which he was not induced by
want ; on the contrary, it was apparent that he was
an expert thief, and too clever to remain in this country.
The judgment of the Court was, that he be trans-
ported beyond the seas for the space of seven years.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LLOYDS.

VESSELS SPOKEN Chertah, Bahia to
Malta, 17th ult., off Sardinia • Alexandrina, Zante to
Liverpool, 26th., off Cape de Sardinia;
; Phillyra, Palermo
to London, and Patriot, Cephalonia to Trieste, 27th,
off Malaga; Guardians, Bristol to Trieste, 7th inst., lat.
35, lon. 10 ; P. H. Dean, Jersey to Malta, Bth, off Cape
St. Vincent ; Ocean, Naples to London, 12th, lat. 47, lon.
12 • Albion, Demerara to London, 17th, off the Lands
End, by the Atalanta, Shapley, arrived off Falmouth.
Royal William, Liverpool to Zante, 13th inst, lat. 48,
long. 8, by .thc Patriot, arrived at Plymouth. Acadia,
Liverpool to Halifax, 7th inst., lat. 51, lon. 21; Margaret,
London to Van Diemen's Land, 12th ult., lat. 10 N.
lon. 24 W. ; John Bull, Bombay to Liverpool, 16th, lat.
14, lon. 27 ; Orestes, Bombay to Liverpool, 18th, lat.
19, lon. 13; British Isles, 19th; Neptune, Newfound-
land to Lisbon, 30th, lat. 42, lon. 32 ; Wellington, St.
Jago de Cuba to Swansea, 10th inst., lat. 52 lon. 18, by the
Regular, Budd, arrived at Liverpool. Australia, Under-
wood, out twenty months, with 700 barrels, in April ;
Governor Halkett, Bradley, out four months, with 150
barrels ; Alexander Henry, Evans, out thirteen months,
with 200 barrels; Caroline, Williamson, out thirteen
months, with 500 barrels, by the Cape Packet, arrived at
Sydney, New South Wales. Countess of Mulgrave, of
Hull, 28th ult , off the Bird Islands; Enterprise, of
Whitby, for Quebec, Ist inst., lat. 46, lon. 58, by the
Ritchie, arrived in the Clyde. John White, of Sunder-
land, for Taganrog, sth ult., off the isle of Galita ; Mary,
Hudson, from Leghora to Plymouth, lat, 37, lon. t ;
Alfred Thompson, Bennett, 10th inst., lat. 49, lon. 10,
by the Atalanta, Allen, arrived at Cowes.

CATECHISM.—A set of tracts entitled " The
Superstitious Rites and Notions of the Church of Eng-
land," •. The essential Difference between the Church of
Christ and the Church of England," and " The Anti-
Christian' and pernicious Doctrine of the Church Cate-
chism, containing an Appeal to Parents on the sin and
danger of allowing their Children to learn it, or to attend
a School where it is publicly taught," have been circulated
where there are schools in connection with the Established
Church. These tracts are written, it is said, by Mr.
Thorn, an Independent Minister at Winchester. In the
first two pages of the last-mentioned book are the three
following assertions :-1. That the Church Catechism
does not teach the Deity of Christ. or of the Holy Ghost.
2. That it speaks of the Creed as composed by the Apos-
tles, and gives it the same authority as the Scriptures. 3.
That it merely teaches children that they are to say their
prayers—not that they are to pray.
The rolls settling the amount of the balances of
the Off-Reckoning Fund for the year 1838 have been re-
ceived at the East India House from the three Presi-
dencies, and are now in the course of payment. The
amount of the full share is 4911., the half-share 2201. 145.,
by which it will be seen that instead of the amount being
smaller, as stated some time since in the Bengal Papers,
tbcre is positively an increase. The succeeding divisions
Naval and Military
Gazette.
MAIDSTONE abded
iet
opnesc tteod
theto bere
gi larger,ntts. n consequence of the
MAIDSTONE HOPS,--111 the hop fair on Sa-
turday very little business was done, probably not
one hundred pockets being sold. The best qua.
lity hops were as much in demand as ever at
from 161. to 191. per cwt. Of this quality,
however, perhaps two-thirds have been already
sold. Very little demand existed for inferior hops, Scarcely
any of which were sold, the buyers evidently waiting the
issue of the duty, which is here estimated at present at
30,000/. This has certainly been one of the dullest
Michaelmas fairs within recollection.

On Tuesday, at six o'clock, an inquest was held
before Mr. Higgs, at the Ship, Vauxhall-road, on the
body of Richard Long, aged five years, who was acci-
dentally drowned on Sunday morning last, near the mouths
of the Westminster sewers. His grandfather, who had
just parted from him, beard a splash in the water, and
suspecting the cause, he went in the direction, and saw the
child's head just above water in one of the sewers. The
child instantly disappeared, and, although drags were
promptly put in requisition, the body was not found for
nearly two hours. Life, of course, was extinct, but it is
somewhat remarkable that the child in his last agonies had
bitten completely through the tip of his tongue. Verdict,
Accidental Death.
On Tuesday Mr. Cottiugham, the architect, who
resides at the corner of Ann-street, was summoned to
Union Vlall, at the his ante of the trustees appointed under
the Lambeth Improvement Act, for placing a board con-
taining a placard and a lantern, on the footway in the Wa-
terloo road, thereby creating a nuisance to the public. A
great deal was said about the injury to house property
which Mr. Cottingham's plan to get the prostitutes out of
his neighbourhood would occasion, and it was contended
that the placard causing an obstruction on the highway
constituted a nuisance, but no evidence having been ad-
duced to prove that the placard was placed on the highway,
the Magistrates dismissed the summons on the ground of it
formality. It was asserted, with some show of reason, tba,
as the unfortunate women must necessarily live somewhere,
if they-were driven out of their present homes, they would
settle elsewhere, creating a nuisance in a quarter now ex-
empt from the evil, and that therefore the laissez faire
policy would be the wisest and the most humane.
cause he had enrolled himself a
The Dublin Evening Post a day or two ago
contained an authorised denial of the assertion that Mr.
Luke Dillon had been deprived of the Castle custom be-
Dillon
has addressed a letter to the Editor of the Post, in which
a gentleman who had an
he says—" I received, through
be mentioned to yourself ), a distinct P
subject (whorsee name,
interview with Mr. Pooley on the
though not at liberty to publish at Repealer. Mr.
present, he desi s should
month under which
have the Castle order in the present
impression I was, from b
a su sequeu t interview, myself ;and
romise that I should
Tuesday morning a frightful the violation of his
no other inference could be drawn from
proscription
that its being refused, after his Excellency's recent. speech,
promise than its being a part of the threatened
of all Repcalers."
and John Mill-
in Sweeney-alley, Spitalfields, to James ears of age.
bury, one fourteen and the other eleven
making
fireworks,
They were at work with their father
nwder, by which
when there was a sudden explosion accident occurred
of gunp_ 0
no h pes are given
they received such dreadful injuries that -
of their recovery,
from the West Indies, aid the 23d Sth Regiments,
The 14th, 68th, 74th, and
-9 from Hali!
fax, are ordered to Canada. g h and 73d Re-
The 24th, 32d, 34th, 65th,
6"-'
home.
giments, at • present in Canada, are ordered
orders to relieve
The 64th, at Jamaica, are under
the 23d at Halifax.
--It is with deep
THE PILCHARD FISHERY' this fishery, on
regret we state that up to the present tim
'reihabitants of this
Regiment,
the success of which so many thousand 'relish_
with their
county are dependent for a nutritious
potatoes, has proved, comparatively,
mouth Packet.
Yesterday being
BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR,.
Battle of Trafalgar,
the Thirty-fifth Anniversary of the . Nelson,
the officers
and lamented death of Admiral Lord
Portstnouth Harbour
a total failure. —Fal-
to
on board :the ship
oe
and
thed
Docks, Royal
had
dinner
qua ho fell. At the
Victory, Nelson's ship, on board of w
are, the day was
Naval Club House, in St. James'.
scioufficers dining
also commemorated by the Naval .
ch Hospital who
to-
gether. Those pensioners at Greenwr
ac,
0,..,,
....
were in the engagement, were allowed
.e d • ~.ntliing
and a quart of ale, and one ounoe of tooaceo,
inner