The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-25 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.—MAIDSTONE, tiny 24.
Both Courts sat this day at ten o'clock. The number
of prisons r. in the calendar is forty-nine; and of this number
only one, a soldier, can read and write; eighteen can nei-
ther read nor write, and the remainder can only read im-
perfectly. The Quarter Sessions were only held a few
days ago, and this number of prisoners is consequently
considered very great; and it is a fact worth mentioning,
that the most serious offences, viz., cutting and stabbing,
and burglary, appear to have been committed by the most
ignorant persons. _ _

There are twenty-seven causes in the Nisi Prius Court,
three of these special juries, in one of which it is said that
Sir W. Follett is specially retained. Lord Abinger dis-
posed of a number of trifling causes in the course of the
day, but none of them were of any public interest.

CROWN COURT.
( Before Mr. Baron GURNEY.)
When the Grand Jury bad been sworn, his Lordship
proceeded to charge them, and observed, that although
the Sessions had so recently been held, he regretted to see
that there were a great number of prisoners for trial at
the present Assizes. His Lordship then said that he was
very sorry to find that in this county, as well as in all the
others, the dreadful crime of stabbing appeared to be very
prevalent. "In my early days," said bis Lordship, such a
crime was unknown in this country, and men were con-
tent, when they quarrelled, to rely upon the means of defence
with which nature furnished them ; but now-a-days, upon
the most trifling provocation, the dreadful alternative of the
knife is reset ted to immediately either party become
worsted." It had become highly necessary that the utmost
severity of the law should bo put in force is order to check
this diabolical practice. In the present calendar there
were two cases of manslaughter, arising out
i of such cir-
cumstances as he bad referred to; but n one of these
cases he had felt it his duty to direct that a bill for murder
should be prepared, because, in looking over the deposi.

PRICE sd.

tions, he found the case was of that character as to ap-
proach very nearly, if not quite, to that crime. It ap-
peared that although the prisoner and the deceased had had
some words together that the former had gone away and
deliberately purchased a knife, and upon his return he
had immediately inflicted a wound with it which caused
instant death. Under these circumstances he thought it
proper that a bill for murder should be preferred against
the prisoner, and when all the facts were brought forward, if
it appeared that the act was really committed before the
prisoner's blood had time to cool, he would have the bene-
fit of it. After some other general observations, his Lord-
ship dismissed the Grand Jury to their duties.
John Peace, aged 25, and John Brennan, 19, were in-
dicted for assaulting Henry Harris upon the Queen's
highway, and lobbing him of a watch.
Mr. CLARKSON defended the prisoners.

It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor, who
is a farmer's labourer, was at Folkstone fair on the goth of
June, and as he was returning home at night he was
knocked down and robbed, and Pearce was clearly proved
to have been concerned in the transaction, but the evidence
was not conclusive against the other prisoner.
The jury found Pearce Guilty and acquitted Brennan.
A previous conviction for felony having been proved
against Pearce he was sentenced to be transported for life.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MAN SION.HOUSE.

A young man named James Se/wood was brought
before the Lord Mayor, charged with having robbed
his employers, Messrs. Tarsey and Co., of Lad-lane,
warehouseman.

Mr. Thomas Tarsey stated that a communication
having been made to him that the house was being
frequently robbed by one of the servants, a search was
made on Thursday evening, and he had reason. to be-
lieve that the concern had been plundered to a very
large amount. Close to the place in which the prisoner
officiated witness found two small parcels tied up :in
brown paper, in the:prisoner's absence, one of these par-
cels he found to contain broad cloth, and in the other,
which he had not had time to examine, was, he be-
lieved, a similar article. The parcels were deposited in
the same spot until the prisoner returned to the ware-
house. After dinner the prisoner quitted the table be-
fore any of the other persons employed, and soon after-
wards left the house, and witness then perceived that
one of the parcels was gone. On the same afternoon
witness again looked at the spot and found that the
place of the absent parcel was filled up with another,
and he then put his private mark upon the two and
procured the assistance of a policeman, whom he con-
cealed in the house, with directions to act when re-
quired. The prisoner upon leaving the house was fol-
lowed by witness, and overtaken in Aldersgate-street,
carrying a brown paper parcel. " Selwood," said wit-
ness to him, " does this belong to you or to me?"
"To me," replied the prisoner, and they returned
together to the warehouse, where the parcel was found
to contain two yards of broad cloth, and to be one of
those which had been privately marked.
The LORD MAYOR asked the prosecutor whether
he could form any opinion as to the amount of pro-
perty of which he had been plundered ?
Mr. Tarsey said he had not the least idea of the ex-
tent. He was quite satisfied that another party was
concerned.

The policeman who took the prisoner into custody
said that 191. and some silver was found in the young
man's pocket.
The prisoner made no observation either in denial or
confirmation of the charge, and was remanded.

A young men, named Robert Styles was immediately
afterwards brought before the Lord Mayor on a similar
charge, preferred against him by his employer, Mr.
John Margetson, of No. 132, Cheapside, haberdasher.
Mr. Margetson said he bad received information that
the prisoner had been robbing him, and he went to the
prisoner, and told him what he believed to be the fact,
and he wished to search his (the prisoner's) house.
The prisoner immediately consented, and in his house
were found several articles which had been stolen from
the concern.

The LORD MAYOR—Are you sure that none of
these goods were paid for ? Mr. Margetson—We are
sure of it.

The prisoner did not utter a word, and was re-
manded for a week.

A gentleman waited upon the Lord Mayor for the
purpose of returning his warmest thanks, in the most
public manner, to the police, for the very great readi-
ness, zeal, and skill, with which they assisted him in re-
covering a horse and cart of which he had been rob-
bed. He declared that it was entirely in consequence
of the active exertions of the body that he recovered
his property, which had got into the very worst hands.
The LORD MAYOR was happy to hear such testi-
mony borne to the good conduct of the City Police, of
whose capabilities he was well assured, as well as of the
excellence of the system, and he wished the gentle-
man to speak to the City Police Commissioner on the
subject.
Sergeant Williams (of the City Police)—My Lord,
believe
a I
eT e hxi eu t vrLee
ot he
eßpryo
MAYOR—Oh, credit
Police.—(A
o e.yll managed,
ARa f:
al
athgoue the
hd
.a)w n well,
ldetection is due to the Me-
tropolitanboth a
mv establishmentsery
happy
that
the gentleman has succeeded in recovering his property.
TEMPERA NCE.—The wife of an Irishman, who works
at one of the most extensive wharfs on the banks of the
Thames, was brought up. Some respectable men, who
had seen her in one of the alcoves of London-bridge at
eleven o'clock on the preceding night in a state of
great excitement, placed her in the custody of a police-
man, in the fear that it was her intention to destroy
herself. She denied that she bad any notion of the
kind, but stated that her husband and she had quar-
relled, that he had blackened her eye, and that she
was merely going to put herself under the protection of
her brother.

The husband attended, and said that the whole of
the dispute arose from infernal drink. His wife, he
admitted, very seldom took a fancy that way ; but when
she did, no one in the world could stand her tongue—
it was "full of deadly poison."
The LORD AlAYOR—Have you got any children?
Husband—Yes, my Lord, three ; and she his every-
thing comfortable for them. There is nothing to pre-
vent her from being happy, or me either, it she would
keep down her tongue, and never drink to excess.
The LORD MAYOR—Then you are a member of the
Temperance Society ? Husband—l am, your Lord-
ship. I have been a sober man these six months.
The LORD MAYOR—And why, my good woman,
don't you join the Temperance Society with your
husband? Husband—l don't want her to become a
member, my Lord. A woman ought not to make such
an acknowledgment, but I was a drinking man. Thank
God I am cured.

The LORD MAYOR—Why, you have bard work to
do. You drink porter, I suppose, in moderate quan-
tities ? Husband—Not a drop.
The Loan MAYOR—Not a drop of beer or spirits?
Husband—Not a drop.
The LORD MAYOR—And do you find that you arc
able to work as well as when you were in the habit of
drinking ? Husband—A great deal better—no com-
parison at all.
The Loan MAYOR—And what do you. drink when
you are at work ?" Husband—Sometimes I take a little
ginger beer, but I never am thirsty. It is the beer and
spirits that used to make me thirsty. I never touch
any now, and I never want anything.
Mr. Nobler—Then nothing could tempt you to e-
turn to your old habits ? Husband—Nothing. I give
my wife a pound every week to keep things comfortable
at home. She can't deny anything I have said.
The Wife—l deny that I was in drink.
The Gentleman who saw the woman on the bridge
said that she did not appear to have the least symptom
of liquor about her.
Husband—She brought stones into the house to pelt
at me. Nothing but liquor could make her do that,
and nothing but liquor could make her tongue so dread-
ful. I don't like any now, but I know what it can do.
The LORD MAYOR—My good woman, I would have
you follow your husband's example.
Husband—Please your Lordship, I don't want to
bar her of porter or anything she likes in moderation.
I don't wish to compel anybody to follow my example,
but I know how different I am myself from what I
used to be.
The LORD MAYOR—WeII, take her home with you.
Don't raise your hand, to her, and I think I can answer
for her future caution and kindness. I shall be very
glad to hear that you have drank each other's health in
ginger-beer.—(A laugh.)
The above conversation was listened to with great
attention.
In the course of the day a poor bloated creature, who
was in the room during the last scene, was brought up,
charged with having been in a helpless state of intoxica-
tion on the night before.
The LORD MAYOR—Why, Mrs. M'Evoy, this is
the twentieth time you have been here before me for
getting drunk.
Mrs. M'Evoy—Upon my sowl, my Lord, it was no-
thing but starvation.

The LORD MAYOR—Why, buoger would not make
you drunk.

Mrs. M'Evoy—Oh, but a very little drop of gin a
top of the hunger would sure enough ; but I will never
get drunk again as long as I live if you let me go,
your Lordship.
The LORD MAYOR—What ! you'll promise me never
to drink anything but water ?
Mrs. M'Evoy—l will, upon my sowl, your Lord-
ship. I'll drink nothing but water if you order me ;
but may be you'd allow me to take now and thin a little
drop of ginger beer.—(Laughter.)
She then moved off with a low curtsey.

VaCas rhk tIoWNINti 1405itin# Tait
(Prom the Times.)
A Treasury Journal of yesterday :horning 'Wet the
melancholy fact, founded on " representations" from Ire-
land, that the poor and labouring classes of that country
are at present suffering the utmost distress through scar.
city of food and want of employment; that the dtficient
supply of last year is nearly exhausted ; and that the
gloomiest forebodings are entertained as to the prospects
of the ensuing harvest. This is a sad picture for any
humane mind to contemplate. But the motives, and in-
deed the accuracy, of the " representations," becomes
liable to no small suspicion, when we find it made the
preface to an unceremonious, and we take upon our-
selves to say, a false and stupid, calumny upon the land-
lords of Ireland, sneeringly called the "natural protectors"
of the people. It is said that by the resistance of the
landlords to the importation of " foreign flour" into the
country, the distress, approaching to famine, among the
poor has been in great part created ! The non-importa7
don of flour into Ireland producing a want of subsistence
among the labourers of that island, is something new in
national history. Why, who ever heard of the poor of
Ireland living on wheaten flour, or even tasting it, or wish-
ing to taste it, from one year's end to another? The
Treasury journal might as well harangue upon the dcmi-
nakedness of the Irish poor being caused by the non-im-
portation of diamonds into Munster, seeing that they are
just as much fed on flour as they are clad in jewels and
embroidery. Everybody knows (we thought, until now,
that every fool had known it) the national food of Ireland
to be the potato, as it is in all those parts of Scotland
where the supply of oatmeal fails.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
At the very moment when the Times, in defiance of the
broadest evidences of discrepancy and discord, vaunts the
" cohesion" and unanimity of the Tory faction, out comes
the declaration of the Duke of Wellington against the
claims put forward by the Church, and spreads still
more dismay and distraction amongst the ranks of those
desirous to rally under the prestige of his name. His
Grace read the bigot and intolerant zealots of the Church
a lecture whence they may derive most opportune instruct
lion. Ho told them broadly of the folly of expecting in
these times that the public money would be applied to
supply the deficiency of the Church, while it had
ample resources within itself for that purpose. He ex-
pressed his "astonishment" at the proceedings of the Uni-
versity of Oxford in petitioning against the Ecclesiastical
Revenues Bill—a Bill so well calculated to remedy the
evils universally admitted to prevail in the parochial sys-
tem of the Church in this country ; and he complimented
the Church and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in re-
commending a measure fraught with so much advantage to
the public and to the Church establishment, without ap-
plying for the assistance of the public money.- The Noble
Duke is but too often slow in perceiving the signs of the
times, and the advances of opinion, so that when he gives
expression to language of this kind it may be regarded as
the result of most reluctant conviction—and therefore it
must prove the more disheartening to the hopes of those
marauders who, under pretence of religious purposes,
would commit the grossest violations of common honesty
and justice. With the Duke's high sense of moral recti-
tude, it is utterly impossible that he can lend the sanction
of his name to the extravagant and aggressive pretensions
put forward by the Church.
(From the Morning Herald.)
We yesterday called the attention of the public to the
Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Bill which has passed
the House of Commons, and is now before the Lords ; and
we explained the serious injury to the property of the deans
and chapters which that Bill, if carried into effect, would
cause. The injury and spoliation of the property of the
deans and chapters are, however, not the sole points in the
Bill to be complained of. What will be the condition of
the unfortunate lessees of all the ecclesiastical property in
the country belonging to sole corporations, such as deans,
prebendaries, and canons? If this Bill should pass into a
law, by far the greater part of these lessees and their
families will be reduced to absolute ruin. They appear,up
to this time, to have been entirely unacquainted with the de-
tails cf this Bill, and of its disastrous consequences to them-
selves. By the 44th and 45th sections of that Bill, all the
separate propel ty of deans, canons, and prebendaries
will become absolutely and for ever vested, without any
further conveyance, in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners
for England, and their successors. These Commissioners
are not empowered by the Bill to grant renewals of leases ;
but if they had the power, would they grant renewals ?
The object of the Bill is to prevent any further renewals,
and to secure for the Church, by an act of spoliation, a
large increase in the number of livings. We admit the
increase of livings to be a desirable object ; but good ends
ought not to be attained by unjust means. The present
lessees hold their property by a tenure which has been
sanctioned by the usage of centuries—a tenure which has
been created by Acts of Parliament ; and they have had
that best security for the continuance of the tenure which
arises from its being the interest of their lessors, the
deans and prebendaries (who have hitherto had life es-
tates only in the property) to grant renewals. Under
these circumstances the lessees have expended large sums
of money in improving the Church property.
(From the Morning Po,t.)

They who read Plutarch, and have a fancy for study-
ing " parallels " in the characters of great men, must long
ere this have associated in their minds oar present Prime
Minister and Sir John Falstaff We have not time now
to run through the points of similarity, many of which
must spontaneously occur to every body ; but we beg to
suggest a point or two in which there is a union of simi-
larity with contrast. For instance, the fat Knight wits
followed by a very ragged regiment, of which the re-
putation was even more ragged than the garments. So
far the similarity is- perfect ; but " honest " Jack,
though not very scrupulous, had some shame on ac-
count of his followers. He would not march through
Coventry with them. Here we perceive a contrast.
Our Prime Minister has long ago got rid of all such
qualms as occurred to his prototype. lie has as bad as
opinion of his rogues as ever Falstaff had, but he has no
objection to march through Coventry with them. What
is it to him ? They count on the tnuster.roll as well Ms if
they were decent respectable men, fit for the Queen's ser-
vice, and as he fs sure of his pay, so long as he can keep
up his number, the count is all he cares about. Again,
we are told of the fat Knight that ho was not only witty
himself, but the cause of wit in others. Our Ministerial
chief is said to be a pleasant fellow enough, especially after
a dinner which he has not had the care and anxiety of
providing. We can well believe it ; and here again there
is a likeness to Sir John ; but as to the effect of his
pleasantry in others, we must own that the similitude
appears to fail, for a duller set than those he keeps
political company with never inflicted torpor on society, or
sent a Senate to its slumbers. If Lord Melbourne be
witty himself, he is not the cause of wit in others. Hero,
however, the association of contrast suggests another un-
doubted point of Lord Melbourne's character. It may
with the most perfect truth be predicated concerning hint
that he is not only unpopular himself, but the cause of un-
popultrity in others. Of his own unpopularity the sibills-
tions of the multitude when he is recognised in public must
have informed him with pretty considerable distinctness.
If he have any doubt about his being the cause of unpopu.
larity in others, let him ask his Private Secretary, who,
after the experience of the last eight or ten days in East
Cumberland, can most certainly confirm our report.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

(FRIDAY EVENING.)
POST.—Complaints have been made to us by com-
mercial men of the issuing, by some of the country
banks, of bills of exchange ffot having stamps upon them,
without the necessary explanation that the duty has,
where such is the fact, been compounded for with the
Government under a late Act of Parliament. It would
be perfectly easy to indicate this in one corner of the
bill, and there can be no doubt of the propriety of some-
thing of the kind being done. The public are not
familiar with unstamped bills of exchange, and they are
consequently less current at a distance than they are
intended to be. The impression of any informality in
the instrument would be at once removed from the
mind of a strangCr to the newly-introduced mode of
drawing by the addition of a few words, engraved or
otherwise, to the effect pointed out.

SUN.—The Foreign Exchanges were heavy again
this afternoon, and the rates for bills were generally
more against the drawers than on last post day.
Very unsatisfactory accounts have been received this
afternoon from the northern fisheries, the number of
whales taken averaging to each vessel barely two.
Throughout the day the funds have evinced a ten-
dency to decline, showing no symptoms of a rally at the
termination of business. This remark applies as well
to the value.
of the floating debt, which fell 3s. to-day.
The depression in Consols was about a per cent. As
the weather is by no means favourable it seems probable
that the Bear party will begin to show a bold front
again,
.indeed they have not already begun operations.
For immediate transfer Consols brought 91:1 to 91i,
and for the month of August 92 to 911, each closing
about the intermediate value. Exchequer Bills did
not range higher than 225. to 245. premium, and India
Bonds dropped to par and 2s. premium. Bank Stock
was rather firm at 175 ; the Reduced Three-and-a-
Half per Cents. were marked 1001 to 100, and the
Three per Cent. Reduced 92 to 92.
The Foreign Stocks all closed heavily.
The Share Market was very quiet, but where sales
were attetnoted lower rates were submitted to. Great
\Ves'ern Railway shares obtained 37 to 36 ; New 17
to 16 ; London and Birmingham 91 ; Blackwall 11 to
2 ; North Midland, New, 4 ; South Western 19i ; and
Hull and Selby 2s. premium. Birmingham and Glou-
cester shares were at Gs. discount, and Manchester and
Birmingham 9f discount. London and Westminster
Bank shares touched 4i premium.

- - -- -
SOMETHING NEW FROM ~,
COTLAND.—In the
llouse of Commons, Mr. Hume's motion to permit the opening
souf
citlbehoßurristisahs Atlhues e uhmo
usoen Su s
of
licensednda
y s"a ,
vi
cftteura
idivine
fseserviliecres, at
f
beer, and of gin shops, are now legally open to the public," was
negatived by a majority of 82 to 44. In London, the Zoolo-
gical Gardens, the resort of tke wealthy, are regularly open on
Sunday ; but the poor are forced into the refuge afforded by
sellers of beer and gin. If the present law is to be maintained,
it would certainly be much more rational, at the same time, to
t
permit the working population the enjoyment to be derived
from instructive exhibitions, such as that of the British Ma-
seurn. The proposal to shut up the Zoological Gardens on
Sunday Ras lately negatived
innocent
its
pleasures,
Tb
The
e relaxationa
inconsistency,
reto f
useoverwhelmingto permit
as rmwihwmteileal the poor
jhoarsitheyttyh;e
but Members of the Legislature—the class that, every seventh
htd
to enjoy
0 monopolisetakene oirsy,
an, o advantagetfe.gsuuac equally
themselves.y o
conduct requires sio comment.—Glaspors
Argus T
MIDDLESEX RA NSPORT.—This vessel, which
has been reported lost, arrived in safety at Sydney ; eight con-
victs died on the passage.