The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-16 00:00:00

LAN* FOR THE POOR.

(.From the Examiner.)
In our observations on the " priva'e arrangement" in
favour of LenLerd Waldegrave, we promised t watch the
issue of other prosecutions for the same offence, the parties
in which might not happen to be lords.
The first which bas occurred since the Waldegrave case
is the prosecution of Stephen Hodge, on the Western cir-
cuit, for assaulting a constable in the exercise of his duty,
and cutting him with intent to do him grievous bodily harm.
The judge in this case did not sugge t " a private ar-
rangement."
The trial proceeded, and it appeared that the prisoner
had a scuffle with the officer, in which he struck him with
some cutting instrument. The act of violence was not
wanton; it was committed in the heat of blood, and in
an attempt to escape from apprehension. It was not an
attack on the person of the officer fur the sport of cruelty.
The constable was not injured for life ; at the end of seven
weeks he was able to kayo the infirmary. The prisoner
was of course convicted, and Mr. Justice Erskine passed
sentence of fifteen years' transportation.
Such is law for: the poor I What law for the rich is,
Lord Denman has shown in a far worse case, and we may
now more emphatically repeat the words of Lord Weide-
grave's counsel, the.; he has reason to fad " greatly in-
&toted to the Chief Justice."

MALTA, MARCH, 1.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The continued drought has made it necessary, with a view
of saving as much as possible the water of the aqueduct for
the wants of the inhabitants, to send away the ships of war to
water in Sicily.
The Implacable and Beacon left for Syracuse for this pur-
pose on the 20th ult., and would have been fdliwed by the
Ganges and other vessels, as their stocks had run out, had not
some rain since fallen. _ _ _

The Inconstant, Captain Fring, arr:ved on the 23d ult.,
bringing 296 disposable seamen to fill up vacancies in the Me-
diterraneanfleet.

The Athol troop-ship arrived from Corfu, on the 18th in-
stant, with detachments for the West Indies, with which she
sailed on the 27th, but owing to contrary gales of wind she
bore up yesterday.
The French steam-packet from the Levant, which arrived
"on the 25th ult., brought Mr. Parsons, mate of the Vesuvius,
which vessel was fallen in with same day ninety miles to the
eastward of Malta. under sail from Beyrout, having expended
her coals. This officer is bearer of despatches for Sir Robert
Stopford, and brings likewise an Indian mail via the Persian
Gulf, despatched from Bambay on the 3d December. The Ve-
suvius did not get in until the 28th ult., when she was taken
in tow by the Great Liverpool, coming in from Alexandria,
whence she sailed the 23d ult., bringing the mail despatched
from Bombay, the Ist ult , by the Perenice.
The Pr.,metheus conveyed to Marseilles the overland mail,
and left this morning.
The Great Liverpool leaves this evening, and conveys the
passengers:—Mr.following and Mrs. Larking, British Con-
sal at Alexandria, on sick leave, and child; Major Douglas,
Capta,n Gray, Dr. Spence. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholson, Mrs.
Woodhouse, Mrs. Waddington and two children. Dr. Stephen.
son, Messrs. Hergog, Niegre, Rury, Konasis, Nisbet, Smith,
Frith, and three children; Little, Sackett, Aspinall, Cotton,
Taylor, Pattula, Gray, Welle, Evans, Gordon, and Lieutenant
Jerningham,R.N., Capt. Hathorn, RN., and four servan.s.
The ships in port are the Princess Charlotte, Ceylon, Edin-
burgh, Ganges, Thunderer, Bellerophon, Carysfort, Dido, In-
constant, Wasp, Magp'e, Gorgon, Hydra, Vesuvius, Alecto,
Locust, Medea, Confiance, Acheron, and Phoenix, all which
are fitting for sea. A report is current that one division will
' troceed to Naples, and another to the coast of Syria, where it
is more than probable that the Syrians may turn upon the Ot-
tomans with the arms so bountifully supplied them of late.
It is rumoured that Admiral Sir Robert Stopford talks of
breaking up his establishment at Malta soon after the 20th
inst., as before that period he expects to be relieved from his
command.
The Edinburgh has just received orders to bend sails ; her
destination is said to be Alexandria.