The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-21 00:00:00

14",VEN1NG EMT;ON

sent system, English or Irish, Parliamentary or munici- I
pal, there are great and grievous blemishes ; and the mis-
chief is, that the Whigs will not consent to the removal
of these blemishes because their existence is favourable
to their party interests. As it was in the case of Lord
Stanfey's Dill, so is it to the very end of the story.
Ministers know what ought to be done, and even some-
times talk of doing it ; but in comes some intriguer like
O'Connell, whose power and influence depend upon
fraud, and insists upon every facility for false swearing
or eersonation lilting left untouched! We rejoice, how-
ever, to see that in one department of the registration—
that cennected with the municipal elections—matters
have come to such -a pass as to render it clearly impos-
sible to eo en any longer. Same change in the law must
be made, and that in the very nsxt Session ; and we look
to the Conservatives in both Houses to see that jus-
tice is done in the measure which must scon be in-
troduced. In the two largest boroughs in England,
the city of London perhaps excepted—Leeds and Li-
verpeo), the municipal resistration of the present year
has utterly failed. After sitting for the whole 15
de ye allowed by law, :he Court in each borough was
obliged to break up, leaving its task unfinished ; and
consequently the ensuing electiens must take place
upon the burgess-roils of 1839. Nor is this sad. V/c
. sac no reason to conclude that the task will be easier
next year. Bat, should the same difficulty then recur,
the same lists (of 1839) must again be resorted to,
and the elections carried on with burgess-rolls of' two
years' standing, one-third of the people con'ained in
which would be dead or gene away ; while their succes-
s"rs, morally entitled,would be ex&uded from their votes.
Obviously, this is a state of things which cannot be per-
mitted to continue. At Liverpool the burgess-roll of this
velr contained 14 417 names. Of these no fewer than
7,303 were ohjected to. After 15 days' sitting, mere
than five thousand of these objections remained unheard.
Even if the Court had continued its sittings up to the
very day of the election—Nov. I—it is clear that the
whole 7,303 could not have been disposed of. At
Leeds the total number of objections and of new claims
wes no fewer than 10,099 P. Of these nearly 4,000
t. atAittetl unheard esellea the Court terminated iis
sit-
tin:•s. Nor may either party reproach the other with
hating created this monstrous state of thivzs. At
L'e: rpool the Conservative objections we,e 3,290 ; the
Radical, 3,804. At Leeds the Conservative claims
and objections were 5.070 ; the Radical, 5,0'29. The
bolt, then, b,2ing in the system, it is Blear that we must
rrqure an amendment of that system. But let that
awoedreent be an•honest one. Let us have no keeping
open the loopholes for deceit and fraud. Let us not be
treated with a repetition of the dishonest conduct of
Ministers in the matter of the English Parliamentary
reeistratton—conduct scarcely a whit p-eferable to
their trutiklieg to O'Connell in the discussions on Lord
btan!ey's Bill.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, OCT. 20.

(B,:fore Mr. Sergeant ADAMS and a Bench of

Magistrates.)
The trial of prisoners for the October Sessions com-
menced this morning. The calendar centained the
names of sixty persons, twenty-four of t-rhom were in-
dicted for felony.
SulklllAßY CONVICTION.—George Clayton, a child
of eleven years of age, was' placed at the bar, and in-
dicted for stealing seventy-six walnuts, the property of
Henry Perkins.
The prosecutor was a green-grocer in Church-way.
During his absence the boy got into the shop, and was
in the act of making off with the walnuts when prosecu-
tor returned. The child was given in charge to a
policeman, and taken to the station-house. The Jury
found him guilty.
The CHAIRMAN said that this was one of those sad
and short cases that so frequently came before the
Court, and must continue to do so while the laws re-
mained unchanged. It was lamentable that there was
no other way of disposing of infants, suo.l as the child
et the bar, than by convicting them as crimina!s. The
system of summary conviction of such offenders at pr. -
sent pursued by the police Magistrates was bad. Sum-
mary convictions in such cases did more rdschief then
anything that had come within the sphere of his obser-
vation, and the greater his experience was, the more lie
was confirmed in that opinion. During his recent visit
to Parkhurst prison, in the Isle of Wight, lie ascer-
tained, and was particularly struck with the fact, that
the greater nuir!i-er of the juvenile prisoners there had
gone the round of summary conviction at different police
ccurts before they were sent to the sess'ons, where
alone any step could be taken for their permanent re-
formation. In many instances before they came to that
court they bad already become hardened, and almost
incorrigible. The evils of such a system must be obvious
at once. In making these remarks he wiAled it clearly to
be understood that the blame did not rest with
the committing Magistrates. An idea bad got
abroad that such was not his opinion, but nothing could
be more erroneous. Tile fault was in the system, which
gax c to Magistrates no other powers to dispose of child-
ren than by sending them to prison. He felt almost
certain that the boy now before them would not hale
been there, and that the excellent Magistrate (Mr. Raw-
linson), from nhose office be came, would not have
i committed him fer trial had it been his first offence.
In answer to inquiries on the subject, one of the con-
stables said, that to his knowledge the boy bad already
been before Mr. Rawliason, for stealing five shillings
from his father.

Tile CHAIRMAN inquired if the boy's parents were in

court ?

The policeman replied they were not. Ho had sent
to his mother, who said she would have nothing more
to do with him ; her child must take the consequences.
The Cnatituatki inquired whether the boy could read
—lt appeared he could not.
The CHAIRMAN—Here is a boy at the tender age
of ercven years, who cannot read, whose parents
not even come down to the Court to learn his fate.
After some further remarks by the Bench,
The CHAIRMAN said that this recalled very forcibly
to his mind another defect in the present praiseworthy
experiments of Government at Parkhurst. He (the
Chairman) did not see why the State should be at the
whole expense of supporting that establishment, and he
hoped to sec a Bill introduced to Raliainent next Ses-
sion, to compel parents, who were able, to contribute
towards• the maintenance of their offspring while
confined there. The parents of many of the children
now at Parkhurst were well able to do so. The sen-
tence of the Court upon tie prisoner was, that he be
transported for seven years; and a recommendation
would be forwarded to the Secretary of State teat he
be r.-moved to that prison.
The CHAIRMAN inquired what the boy's father was ?
The policeman replied that he was a drayman at
Menx's Brewery
The CHAIRMAN said that the cost of each prisoner
at Parkhurst, including the officers and everything, was
only about 151. a year. There was no reason, for in,
stance, why such a man as that, who was receiving good
weekly wages, should not he made to bear the half, or
at least a part, of that expense.
The other eases-were of little interest. Tne Court
adjourned at five o'clock.

(From the Morning Post.)
There begins to be now souse hope that a certain
description of good, which scarcely could have been
calculated upon, may arise out of the alarm and lis-
t urbance which the proceedings of the French war pasty
have lately excited throughout Europe. We allude to
the widely and rapidly spreading conviction that the
gre:a evil of the present time is the presumptuous re-
‘olutionlry spirit which wars with the peace and good
order of national communities, and falsely calls itself a
spirit oi liberty.
".Liecage they mean when they cry li'serty,
F,r who loves that must first be wise and good,"

Toe war party in France have already shown that
xi:de they aff 'et a greater regard fur liberty and po•
pular rights than others do who demand that respect
sliould he
,paid to established institutions, they are
possessed with a most. savage, crud, and blood-thirsty
raga for dominotion which would not scruple to gratify
itself at the expense of a renew 'l of all the horrors
which disgraced France fifty years ago. Experience
has done nothing to reclaim the diseip'es of revolution.
The history of half a century has wade evid(nt the
miserable folly of the revolutionary principle, and
its utter inapplicability to the affairs of mankind,
so, long as these affairs are superior to the instincts
and habits of wild beasts. But the grossly de-
praved discip!es of the revolutionary school have learned
nothing from history. They have not learned even so
much as a particle of diffi ience or modesty. Their im-
pudence is as monstrous as if the world had not seen in
the events of the last half century that the greatest
scourges of the human race, the most pitiless, tyrannical,
remorseless murderers that ever made themselves con-
spicuous by their crimes, have been persons who
commenced their career as revolutionists. At this
very d iy the political successors of these dead monsters
st ii cry out " liberty," and at the same time raise the
yell of war. They pretend to be friends of civi-
lization, and yet they are swift to shed blood. They
affect an especial regard for the happiness of the human
race, and yet they encourage war, which ever falls most
cruelly and severely upon the poor and helpless ; that
is to say, the most numerous portion of the human
race. Nothing can go beycnd the effrontery of the
pretences of revolutionists except the atrocity of their
practises. These miser giants have been eztrried away
by the prospects which lately opened upon them
of running riot in blood. They lizve revealed them-
selves with a happily indiscreet haste, and the well-
clisposed throughout Europa hove taken the alarm,
In France itself, especially, even those who were at first
led astray by the cunning lies of the revolutionists about
the national honour of France having been insulted,
now begin to see how grossly they were imposed upon,
had to contemplate with wholesome dread, and justifi-
able indignation, the wicked devices of the promoters of
revolution and of war. They complain with just alarm
that all reverence awl all respect seem to be trampled
under foot by these revolutionists, who regard no esta-
Wished authority of God or of man, who scoff a!ike at
ulliglt:n. and the laws. Their own wild projects are
tht der.:ta. These they ignorantly worship—before
blase, they appear to bow down with the most besotted
and desperate idolatry.

COLLET OF BANKRUPTCY. 0CT.20

EXTRAORDINARY CASE

THE IMPERIAL BANKING COMPANY-IN THE MATTER
OF RICHARD LAW.

This was the day appointed for the choice of assig- 1
nces in the matt( r of this bankrupt, who was brought
up in custody from the Fleet Prison. He was secrc-
tary to, and one of the partners of, the Imperial Bank-
ing Company, of which a branch had been established
at 'Manchester between two and three years ago. The
petitioning creditors were Messrs. Wright, the bankers,
of Henrietta-street, Covent-garden.
The bankrupt stated, that, except as a partner or
shareholder in the Imperial Bank, he did not owe
20/. in the world, and that he was now in execution
for debts of the Company. He had no available as-
sets, as his furn•ture was sold, and the messenger of
the fiat had taken every thing except his watch. He
had, however, a hundred shares in the Company, but
as matters now stood they were worth nothing, and
there were no means of paying the expenses of the fiat.
The official assignee said the petitioning creditor must
see to that, but it was extraordinary that a fiat should
have been issued at all under such circumstances.
The Learned COMMISSIONER asked who was wind-
inl up the affairs of the banking company.
The bankrupt replied that their affairs were in the
Court of Chancery, but still his bankruptcy did not
vitiate his character of Secretary and Director of the
Company.
Mr. Jerningham, of the firm of Wright and Co.,
bankers, claimed to prove for 1,4471. 17s. upon bills ac-
cepted by the bankrupt for the Imperial B ink.
The official assignee (Mr. Johnson) said he could not
tell what consideration had been given by the bankers
for thew bills, es, from the very peculiar situation of
the bankrupt, he had no books or vouchers of any de-
scription to produce.
The Learned COMMISSIONER asked Mr. Jerningham
what consideration he had given for these bits ?
Mr. Jerningham said cash, by way of discount.
Did the bankrupt keep an account with you ?
He did. _

TETE QUEEN'S PLATE.—This . plate, which
was recently presented to her Majesty by Mr. Apsley
Pe'lett, is one of the finest specimens of engraving upon
pure crystal in Europe. In the centre is an exquisite
likeness of her Majesty, finished with a degree of feeling
and care rot often to be met with in works of art, even
~ en steel or copper. Around the brim of the plate is a
* • • , •sl frirze, copied from a work of the sculptor Thor.
waidsen ; the smallness of the figures in which, and the
elaborate minutem of the accessories, must have been the
result of great labour, directed by the highest talent. A
similar plate is exhibited by the courtesy of Mr. Apsley
Pc:lett, to the curious and scientific, at his manufactory in
Ilollend-street, Blackfriars, in the galleries attached to
which establishment many other interestine specimens of
works la glass
• are deposited. The valuable arid singu-
lady beautiful irvention of crcrustiug medallions and
other bodies in masses of glass has been patented ; and it
is gratirsiog to find, that all the models and" forms to
whirl' it is applied exhibit a perceptible advance in good
taste. Perhaps one of the most novel Adaptations of the
silent is that of encrusting in the very centre of a square
' b. ick" of glass the name of thlCbuilder of a house or
p esic building., or the title of the person who laid the
fi:st stone. It is certain that glass is less perishable than
stems or brick. and thus a better means of carrying down
to posterity the fact is more closely arrived at.
THE ASSESSED TAXES.—Aftter extensive in-
' cptilics and mature consideration, we have come to the con•
cluoon, that the more immediate causes of the prevalent
- di.scon:et as to the assessed taxes, are the statutory re-
gulations respecting surcharges. If a party, in furnishing
a Csoen officer with a list of the persons or articles on
arc ,unt of which he is liable to be assessed, omits any of (FURTHER PARTICULARS).
them, the officer is empowered, in terms of the statute, to The cause of the fire in St. Anne's-square is, it ap-
rectify the assessment, by assessing him anew "in double peares, still involved in mystery. That it originated
ere rates of duty prescribed in the schedules annexed to accidentally, and not from any malicious design, there
tto Act, on the amount of the duty so surcharged, which appears to be no doubt whatever. It commenced in the
sum shall be added to the assessments." This is a penalty warehouse of Messrs. Shawernss, whence it communi-
.
of cent. per cent. on the proper duty, which goes as a per- sated to the warehouse of Mr. John Gtegg, next to
(Fain; to the officer, ar.d from which, unless he chooses, that cf Mr. Hilton, and then arread is a northerly di-
th.:rc is gencrelly no possibility of obtaining relief, in rection to the buildings ocettpied by Mr. Matebetts,. si-
eves entirely free from all desire for concealment or era- tuated opposite to Hilton's warehouse on the one rude,
sion. As an encouragement to the officer to make sur-
and to Shawcroars's on the other. The flatetee off' the
charges in this manner, he receives by the statute, for his
whole four warehouses were at one rtibd illuminating
own use, the whole amount of the surplus duty, which the
Commissioners of Supply arc entitled to modike, but not thes ?therwise murky sky, pretenting to beholders a
beer further than one-half. He makes these surcharges most imposing sight of awful grandeur in the immediate
in en PSC, ssivrly summary manner, by merely entering neighbourtmod, awl of wonder and astonishment to
them in his book of aseessment, certifying it by his signae those at R distance of 12 or 14 miles. The fire corn-
tare to the contents, and then handing it to the collector,
rneneed at a little after four o'clock, teal it was not until
svi,ll the surcharges iii it; while a party, if he pleases nearly two in the morning that it was completely got
may make an appeal to the Commis...done' s of Supply. under. A few mintatta atter it broke out the engines
which, in the bustle of a eroeded and impatient Appeal emrt, it is generally and firemen were present, with six engines, all in werk-
imece.inle sufficiently to investigate.
—Air. Dimavalts >a li ing' order. ,
"'Plaid. ,warehouses in hap is I'll
LONDON Four are ains, except the
AND BRIGHTON itAILWAY --A Correspondent states that the aristocratic arrivals at, and outer walls, which
the Pret %lorm of wind may probably
dep-artures from, Brighton
at present eqesitho.ofthe
ecountenance
(even without the level with the rottna, if not in the meantime token
of Royalty:),
~ down. The Warehouses belong to Mr. Shawcrota) an
other elect' bathing or watering- places combined four or live extensive commission agent. His' less it attppesed t.. 3
Rarnsgete. Dover, Cheltenhamouthampton, and Lea.
mington Spa. In proof of this he recommends it at any'. be about 7,0001., but he is inetteert '''l
an amount which
laahionehle paper be takenwill cover him in the Notwich Union and Manchester
up, and that the ~ movements". Assurance Cisteetsaby. The whole of Mr. Mtstchctt's
of the places enumerated be,
an exact calculation in two
.co'Tpared. tie has himself, stock ix deattoyed. It consisted of cotton waste, ate'
instance.;, above stated. 1000
he says, made . , an
nstances, taken could not be worth less, at a moderate computati.othath
at random, and has found the
.result
He thinks t . his fact cannot fail gratifying to the nphis 0/. He is,
°thrill/ extensive ,
• • ,lrs of the London
pries , -and Brightoe Ray two. however, insured to neatly the amount
of loss, probably within 1,000/. Mr. Hilton is an
.--;nTohvesdeavueobotliter, Ha-
Tixes.merchant and commission agent, we believe.
Since the deeth of Mr. Powell, which took place a short
A CIRCASSIAN BEA UT Yi
Prue ago, he has taken the disposal of the twist of Mr.
fiza, was a lively, pretty girl of s xvteo..o
a first interviews, Peel, who is a large spinner at Tamworth. A
i e rsQler demure, as is necessar.
she
had no cause to but
few
(14" :ince about 6,0001. worth of twist was re-
no r:,) means ill-natured; indeed,
t7vticiadt frotho Mrt.helldwt:trrehoTushee oftr' etetnhat7elMpro.licPeoswucci-1
no, aware, as she must have been, that no girl in the
or command
. . . whole doifr'threetporvievraitneg stocka b.
ofl IS' rl.l
;neighbourhood could bide a cireeer scent!ltY
it
On the
thee: etrzdst 111,iuris out ea .of that stock hut the
totter uric,', than brrself—in short, though far far from reaa.
‘ie,admebneteireetffl
uranee in thiilikr°lnancibs-ec-sotenrsurmiffieede!
I,z,ing th,, th.-ft; idetil tvo should form of sublime and eeaad-
of 5,00(C/.
ecatned
•t.',l, yet, as things go in that country, every way entitled
to rank as a Circassian beauty. She had regular an
ininsutrhaeneseuntoFitiben.
amount
'pretty I
•eatures, Hue eyes, nits fair complexion ; her hair
office. The pro .
NO:1S of a light auburn colour, and hung in a profusien of 1
hl
_.
o.
.p.. perty entirely destroyed belonging to
-braided tbonnet of scar- 1-1
1 , r. Clear ael amount to nearly P-
ia
cloth'
tresses over her shoulders, from a
~
.1,0001., which is
insured to nearly the
trimmed andcrossed with broad ainlike.th
jeos of Shatvcsoas
e Albanian skull-cap. Her costume, being that e . s k-f all ti,,,,n, I files;, and ililton, a • d '
the Globe hire-office re insure in to the
(loth I !ee.pi reeidens, consisted of the bonnet of scarlet
silver studs *"eribed, a bodice of blue silk, nith a row ofwhich
will be sufficient to restore them, and the other .
in front • building
silver eifispa in the .., It girdle, fastened very low by large is inann, .
id There is not in the whole of these buildings
of strip, -1 set, ~., 'nal'a of shells, and beneath her anted a, much as a beam left, and tae on y
t* l
' ee leeee . .. article available
f„,„ ~,,., ~ . , Turkish trousera, or shako,. • '
i,..w,d aI • " ' ;7* :,. ,----' f t'i -r re ' •tistreezion is the bricks, wl , t
ke.l have be
'''..hiell it' :. -"'idt ia the•""rir'' "'"';-" •'..-"1 d'l:"'-' Iv", 'Ow n •,-c,:::: L,;.1 nii addi:I3nAI.SEISOMI)g. it is .
10 go ell!: os dc.r,r, tt,e . r",licn t,,,, 1, :112 ~(IcOvcr:id,,hut
tc.,` ' j
a,..id LiL,t, no lives were lust,
~,,,, , sats-
,- . 3 put 0
force, "-"ugii Sr.Ss
treorocce enppras.—Loy , "see..seed p et, ns or .
u arm'
s sac.
.r.
lof 'the borough police sited
Fear antonj the Circas- I genet Saw ley, another
- officer of that establishment,
but not dan-

Is there any objection made to this proof ?
The Solicitor to the fiat said no one was in atten-
dance who could answer the question.
The proof was admitted.
The only proof being that of the Messrs. Wright,
they had the choice of the assignees, and named Mr.
William Law, the brother of the bankrupt, to thnt trust.
Mr. Commissioner EVANS, upon inspecting a docu-
ment which was placed before him, asked it it were a
fact that almost aii the partners in the Imperial Bank
were either bankrupt or insolvent, and was answered in
the affirmative.

Tie bankrupt then left the Court in custody to re-
turn to the Fket, his surretder to the fiat not operating
as a release from the executions ender which he is inn-

pritoned.

THE FIRES IN 3IANULIESTER.