The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-18 00:00:00

KENSINGTON PETTY SESSIONS

A NATIONAL BENEFACTOR.—LateIy Mr. John
Pullin, the proprietor of the George Inn, Kensington,
was brought before Messrs. BAItLoW and PILKINGToN,
the sitting Magistrates, under the following circum-
stances :

Sergeant Matthews, T 12, "stated, that on the pre-
vious afternoon, about four o'clock, his attention was at-
tracted by a crowd of persons in front of the Crown
Inn, near the church, in the midst of which was the
defendant, sitting in his gig. On going up he found that
he was intoxicated, and that Mr. M‘Nair, the landlord,
refused to let him have anything more, advising him to
go home. The defendant then left, and soon afterwards
learning from a shopkeeper in the High-street, that four
ladies had been compelled to take refuge in his shop,
owing to the defendant's violent driving, and that a
female and child had been nearly run over by him, and
seeing him again driving furiously along, he stopped the
horse, and led the chaise to the station-house, when the
defendant was detained, it having been evident for some
time that his mind was affected.
Mr. Bestow—What have you to say to the charge ?
Why do you act so ?
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But such conduct must not be allowed.— I was serv-
ing the nation, and had been for some time. A little
time will prove it, and you will all rejoice, and be thank-
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Have you any friends here 9—Oh, yes, I have plenty
of friends.
Inspector Smith—The defendant's wife is in Scotland,
having separated from him, since which time he has beet:,
in a very bad state, not having been sober for the last
three months. He has been detained at the station
that something may be done to prevent his property and
business going to destruction.
Mr. BRLOW.—His friends had better get some re-
spectable person to manage his business.
Mr. Pullin—Oh, I have got a respectable woman,
and four other servants. You see it cannot be said
whether I was tipsy or not ; for that 1 have the madness
about me—a madness to serve the nation, so that I
have only done my duty as a citizen of the Queen's, and
the police have done theirs.
How long has your head been so ?—My head been
so ! It is as clear as yours, any how. I don't want to
be confined, for I have only done my duty, and the
iniraculum being over, I shall now be steady.
You must find two housekeepers who will be answer-
able that you will be steady.—Oh, I dare say there are
two here who will answer.

Mr. Cornell and Mr. Gray, two respectable licensed
victuallers in Kensington, said the alteration in the de-
fendant since his separation from his wife had been as-
tonishing. They only wished to protect his property,
and if he was, in default of bail, committed, they would
in a day or two visit him, when the effects of so long-
continued intoxication would probably be gone off, and
ho might be restored to reason and society ; otherwise
they felt certain ho would do some serious injury to
himself or others.

He was then ordered to find sureties for his good
conduct ; and his friends declining to become bail until
he was more collected, he was thereforecommitted.

PERSIA.

The Journal des Debats publishes a letter from Ispahan,
written in January last, by M. Charles Texier, who it will
be remembered was sent last year by the French Govern-
ment to explore the antiquities of Persia. The learned
traveller does not anticipate any favourable result from the
accrediting of a French Ambassador at the Court of the
It is impossible,
Schah. he says, to imagine the state of
debasement into which the Persian empire has fallen;
there is, properly speaking, no government in the country.
Any individual able to assemble a dozen men becomes a
chief of partisans. Murders are daily committed in the streets,
and, although the governor takes measures calculated to pre-
vent their recurrence, the disorders continue. The Schah
is left without any power, and whatever authority it
retained by the Government of Ispahan is vested in
the hands of his Grand Musteid. M. Texicr mentions
that the engrossing topic of conversation in that capital
was the disappointment of the Imaum of Muscat, whose
immoderate taste for a species of sourkrout called turchi
had bcen the cause of his losing the hand of the niece of
the Schah. The brother of this sovereign, after receiving
the dowry which it is customary in Persia for the son-in-
law to pay the father of his bride, was in no hurry to send
off his daughter to the Imaum,
whom he kept in good
humour for a time by supplying him occasionally with
some excellent turchi. The latter, however, on hearing
that the Princess had given a preference to one of her
cousins, swore that he would obtain her by force, and was
actually preparing an expedition to that effect. M. Texier
intended shortly to leave Ispahan for Bagdad, and to visit
on his way the ruins of ancient Suza, which, according to
Mr. Rawlinson, are situate in the neighbourhood of
Shouster.

A HINT TO FARMERS ON HEAVY LANDS.
—A Scotchrnan hired a farm in Norfolk, where his two pre-
decessors had failed. Ile began by draining, and forked some
of the. land twelve inches deep lasing the subsoil in ridges to
receive sun and frost. Ile was' laughed at by his neighbours;
but they now see he can grow
man,
plough with two horses, when three'lewarzel and carrots, and
and four were before
necessary ; and in reducing the number of cattle, feed his cows
anooxen,with better and abundant food•
The rrebisond steamer, which reached Constan-
tinople on the 20th ult., brought intelligence of a pacific nature
from Persia. It would appear that a reconciliation had taken
place between our Government and the Court of Teheran, and
that the Schah had given up fur the present all idea of an ex-
pedition against Herat, On finding that. Russia could not sup-
piitrt him against England, after the defeats she had sustained in
Circassia and iihiva.

TROY TPIE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
(From the Globe.)
To tax and please, any more than love and be wise,
is not given to mortals. It may, therefore, be regarded
as no insignificant triumph for the Chancellor of the
Exchequer's financial statement last night, that his lucid
and complete exposition of our situation in that depart-
ment was received with tokens of satisfaction which
its merits must have extorted from opponents who
cannot be suspected of having lightly accorded them
—the less so, as the Right Honourable Gentleman
branded with just severity the previous conduct of
those opponents in forcing forward premature estimates.
Of all the discreditable " obstructions" an Opposition
could cause to public business, that motion of Mr. Her-
ries, if not the most mischievous, was the most offensive.
Offensive—not as showing want of confidence in the
present Government, but as acting towards it as no
Opposition had ever acted towards any Government.
It would have been difficult to feel less confidence than
the Whig party felt and expressed towards the succes-
sive Tory Cabinets throughout the war. It would be
difficult to deserve less than some of these Cabinets,
especially as regards the state into which they bad
brought our finances. Against which of those Cabinets
did the Opposition of those days employ the maaceuvre
—the paltry, factious mancauvre of calling prematurely
for the year's estimates? The demand was as unpre-
cedented, as it was unjustifiable ; and—as the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer showed last night—inconducive
to correct information.

(From the Standard.)
Nothing can be more simple, not to say rude, than
Mr. Baring's financial scheme. It is only to increase
rateably the taxes upon the community 5 per cent. and
upon householders 10 per cent. We have our
doubts, however, of the efficacy of the ope-
ration for its immediate purpose, and of its clumsy
injustice there can be no doubt at all. Two
and two, it is well known, do not always make
four in financial affairs. Stijl less is it certain that
added to the 100 of already heavy taxation
will make 105 ; we should not be much astonished to
find it make but 90. As regards the justice of the
case, why are they who have had the advantage of the
many taxes reduced by " profl4ate Tory governments"
to retain these advantages, while their fellow-subjects
are to be taxed still more heavily. Why are the mul-
titudes, taxed to the last farthing they are able to pay,
to be amerced in new taxes at the same rate as the most
affluent ?—the poor householder, for example, no less
than 2s. in the pound. What will they say to this in Fins-
bury, Mr. Wakley ?—what in Lambeth, Mr. Hawe_?
what in the Hamlets, Sir Stephen Lushington? You all of
you lately promised a repeal of the assessed taxes ; for
this repeal, the Government which you have fastened
on the country, by your black-is-white votes, present
us with an additional burthen of two shillings in the
pound, and they tell us that they are at peace with all
the world. So much this day for the Reform taxes—
the retrenchment tribute—the fruits of economy--and
all else that was promised.

(From the Courier.)
The 10 per cent. additional on the assessed taxes is
itself bad in principle, but its oppression is immeasur-
ably enhanced by the accompanying " re-assessment."
Here we have the tribe of keust tax-gatherers let loose
again among our hearths and dwellings. The privacy
and Indepetadence of our households are to be again
invaded, as if in mockery of the antiquated and now
it seems obsolete boast of our forefathers, that an lint,
lishman's house was his castle. The amount of the im-
post is as a feather compared with the inquisitorial pro-
cess by which it is to he screwed up.
In the article of windows, which by the re-
mission of half the tax honest Lord Althorp
congratulated the nation would re-introduce air and
daylight once more into their habitations, how largely
will priv.:te interests he affected. Capital has been
much more extensively invested in building specula-
tions, and the consequence, favourable to health and
comfort, has been, that our population are no longer
crammed and piled one Lundy upon another from the
ec liar to the attic of the house in our large cities, as for-
merly. The rural suburbs have been invaded and co-
vered until they rival or exceed the old towns, their
sires, in magnitude. The glass industry has propor
tionately been benefited, and the manufactories ex-
tended, by the remission upon the old impost. Here,
therefore, not only are the interests of classes pressed
upon and damaged, but public convenience and economy
preyed upon, for, after all, it is from the pockets of the
people that the proceeds of this additional taxation must
be drawn in the long run.