The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-06 00:00:00

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
( From the Times.)
A dispute has arisen between the Colonial-office
and sonic of the emigration-mongers upon the meansof
regulating the exportation of emigrants to the British
colonies- It had been observed that in those new
countries where land is to be had for little more than
the trouble of taking possession, ro settler is content
to labour fur a master ; that each longs to be an owner
of much more than he can 'cultivate—that, conse-
quently, much of the land is wholly neglected—and
that even the portion wrought is rather scratched than
tilled. It was hoeind that this lack of labourers was a
difficulty not easily to be remedied ; since no colonial
propietor was Ruling to incur the expense of importing
iimbandmen, whose whole object %you'd be at the ear-
liest possible moment to throw up their contracts, and
quit the working for the pyoprietary class, thereby in-
creasing instead of diminishing the disproportion be-
tween the appropriated land and the labour. It was
then inferred, that if the Crown, the universal owner
of the soil, were to raise the sale price of the
lands, and employ the proceeds in the impor-
tation of labourers, the requisite proportion be-
tween the land and the labour would be restored ;
inasmuch as capitalists would not pay great prices for
allotments which they could not work, and labourers
would be obliged to continue for some time in the
earning of wages before their savings would enabh
them to become cultivators on their own account.
This principle was adopted by the Government, arc(
the " Emigration" or " Colonial Land Board," ap-
pointed by and under the Colonial-office, has already
obtained, from the sale of Crown lands, considerable
sums, the balance whereof remaining in each respec-

At the Hull Sessions on Saturday last, a man, who
cslls himself John Arthur Robarts, was convicted cf ob-
taining money under false pretences, and sentenced to
seven years transportation ; there being several other
charges against him of similar offences practised during a
residence of about ten months in Hull. The result of
his trial has, however, brought a more serious circumstance
forward. At the time of his apprehension a considerable
nue,er of watches, SUIT.O plate, and a variety of
wt Ilery, were found, either in the possession of the pri-
soner, or in that of a female with whom he coliabi'cd ;
zeta
it now appears, that they arc both implicated in cit.-
cumstanees connected with the murder and robbery ()I
Mr. Westwood, the watchmaker in Prince't-street, Soho,
either as accessaries to the crime, or at least as possessors
of some of the stolen property. lospector Beresford,
of the Metropolitan pollee arrived in Hull previous to
the Scssitos, and in the event of Robarts haling
been acquitted, was ready with a warrant to apprehend
lint on the above charge. His being convicted renders
that proceeding unnecessary, and Inspector Eleresford
returns to town with some of the watches, a large case
of jewellery, and several miscelLineous articles, found
at the lodgings of the prisoner's late female com-
panion. This woman, from admissions made by her
paramour, there is reason to suspect knows some-
thing about the death of Eliza G,imwood, whose mur-
der in Wellington-terrace, Waterloo Bridge-road, hvs
remained so long a mystery. She calls herself Mary
Corey, and accompanied the prisoner from London to
Hull. About three months ago she preferred a charge
of forgery against him, to the edicet that he had drawn
15e1. of her money from the bank of Jones, Loyd, and
Co., by means of altering two or three checks she had
signed for 5/. each to larger sums. There appeared no
doubt of the fact, but she did not appear at the se-
cond csamination. The exposure, however, opened
the cy ao-vtral persons who had been -Wipe:t-
hy the prisoner, : and to • whom he • had represented
himself as a •‘ barrister-at law, and an
Court of Chancery." Having circulated a false. ac-
count of his having recovered an estate in Seotl- nd
for a poor person at Beverl-y, the credulity of others
being or fancying themselves entitled to property was
excited, and on their visiting the great lawyer, a few
pounds were easily extorted from them. The prisoner
being convicted en one charge of this kind, the ends el
justice were considered satisfied, especially as matter of
more seri ius import seemed to attach to the convict.
It is believed that the prisoner is a native of Reading—that
his real name is Rubinson or Robertson, and that he is or has
been by trac!ci a watchmaker. During his residence in Hull he
has assumed a higher cia,racter, though with little pretension
beyond an immoderate degeee of assurance. He has been a
leading character among the Socialists, and always showed
a desire to become a public character. His trial on Sa-
turday occupied seven hours, in consequence of his long
and irrelevant cross-examination of the witnesses, and
his
addressing the Jury for nearly an hour in his assumed cha-
racter as a barrister

SINGULAR CASE OF HYDRO-

PHOBIA.

An inquest was held before T. C. Maynard, Esq., Co-
roner, at Sunderland, on Wednesday last, on the body of
W. Brown, whose death had been caused by the bite of a
dog, which he had received seven weeks ago.
H. Bell, cousin to the deceased, said on the 19,h of No-
vember I was in Middleton's shop with my cousin. His
doF, which was a cocker, was in the shop. He struck it,
and it bit him on the right hand, on the fleshy part of the
thumb. The wound bled a little. He became ill on Sun-
day last, having complained on the Saturday of a stiffaese
in the hand. Ile took his tea on Saturday as usual. On
Sunday night he was very poorly, and complained of sick•
ness. On the Monday morning Mr. Thompson was sent
for. The deceased died at ten minutes past eight yester-
day morning. We have never seen the dog since it bit
hint. He beat it with a stick, and it ran out of the back
door into the low street. We had the dog about six
weeks, but had seen nothing peculiar about it : it was ac-
customed to snarl and bite. The deceased would have
been 33 years of age on the l'lth et' January, and was un-
married. The dog was black-spotted and white.
Mr. Thompson, surgeon, deposed—l was called to at-
tend the deceased about half-past eight o'clock on Monday
mottling last. My young man had previously dressed his
hand when he received the wound. I found him vomiting
and complaining of a severe pain in the stomach, which he
stated was caused by eating an unbaked pie, at Seaham, on
Friday. He had an ihteme pain in the stomach, and had
a difficulty in swallowing liquid in particular. I sent him
a mixture and some pills, but on returning found he could
not swallow the mixture, though he had taken the pills.
It was half an hour after when I called the second time.
He was trying to suck the mixture through a pipe-
stopper,
but could not. He at length effected it by
taking a cup of tea. From that time the aynip-
toms increased, particularly the difficulty in swallowing,
and the aversion to water. I bled him to relieve the
pain, and called isf Dr. Brown abuvit thneo o'clock
in the afternoon. Eighteen leeches were applied
over the pit of the stomach. Dr. Brown agreed with
me that it was a case of hydrophobia. I continued with
him till seven o'clock yesterday morning. There was a
violent sighing and a heaving of the diaphragm, and it
sometimes took two or three persons to hold hien down.
He was quite sensible, and called for U 3 to hold him down.
The convulsive efforts latterly returned nearly every
minute, and his dread of water was intense. Whenever
he saw or felt it it convulsed his wholo frame. He died
about eight o'clock yesterday morning. I have no doubt
he died front hydrophobia. He never, while he was ill,
spoke to me of the bite in the thumb, but lie mentioned
it to me several times while he was well. It was then
healed. It did not appear to have been a severe one.
He said to me, when I was looking at the marks of the
wounds on his hand, " You do not think anything of that,
do you?'
The Jury returned a verdict of " Died from hydro-
phobia, occasioned by the bite of a dog."

THE THUIsDER STORM OF

SUNDAY.

MEETING OF THE VESTRYMEN OF CHRIST

CHURCH, SPITALFIELLIS.
On Monday, at eight o'clock, a numerous meeting of
the vestrymen of the parish of Christ Church, Spitalfields,
specially convened, was held in the vestry-room of the
church, which is situated immediately under the tower of
the steeple, for the purpose of receiving the Report of
the surveyor as to the extent of the damage done to the
spire and the tower ,by the electric, fluid on Sunday
morning last. There wcrc present the Rev. W. Stone,
the rector ; Nlessrs. Morris and Stone, the churchwar-
dens ; Mr. Brushfield, the chairman of the board of guar-
dians of the Whitechapel union, and most of the princi-
pal inhabitants of the parish.
Mr. Morris, senior churchwarden, having been called
to the chair,
Mr. TAYLOR, the Vestry-clerk, read the Report of the
snrveyor, Mr. Waller, which was as follows :
g. REPORT AS TO THE DAMAGE DONE TO THE SPIRE OF

CHRIST CHURCH. SPITALFIELDS, BY TIIE STORM OF TIIF.

3D INSTANT.
" From the general view I have been able to take,
without the assistance of ladder and scaffolding, I am of
opinion that, although the damage done to the spire is con-
siderable, much of the stone-work being shattered and dis-
placed, yet, as the spire maintains its perpendicular posi-
tion, and as there is no appearance of extensive vertical
fracture, there are no grounds for any immediate danger;
and I am further of opinion that the damage can be reed •
fled without rebuilding the spire.
" To enable me, however, to give a more decided
opinion, I beg respectfully to submit that it is absolutely
necessary to have ladders, stages, and scaffolding erected
within the spire, at least from its base upwards. Exter-
nally, also, it is very desirable ; but as the latter mode
would be attended with great expense, I am of opinion
that, if confined to the interior, I shall be able to make
such an examination as will enable me to give an opinion
upon which reliance may be placed; and I will further
submit that this should be attended to immediately, as
wet and frost penetrating the ,fractured portion of the
stone-aotk may produce serious mischief.
"JOHN WALLER.
" To the Churchwardens aS Christ Church, Spitalfields.

" 68, Aldermanbury, Jan. 4, 1841."
Mr. 131tustiFIELD moved that the churchwardens be re-
quested have an internal examination of the steeple
made without delay, in order to ascertain with certainty if
the spire be in Is safe state, and that Mr. Waller be re-
quested to report thereon.
Mr. WAITE seconded the resolution, which was agreed
to unanimously ; as was also the following :—" That a
vestry meeting be called at the earliest possible opportunity
to receive the report, and to make such further arrange-
ments as may be necessary."
Thanks were then pa,sed to the Chairman, and the
meeting broke up.

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fins been expended ir—.7"—tte expo-rtation of
labourers thither. It is on the propriety of that
deduction for local government that the main schism
has occurred between the emigrationists and the
colonial administration ; and the money question,
the financial pressure, has here had a strong opera-
tion in keeping Ministers right. Tne demand for
the application of the whole fund to the exportation of
labour being strongly pressed upon them by some of
their Radical supporters, they would have been but
too much reason to expect the compliance of Govern-
ment, had not this been happily made impossible
by the pecuniary circumstances of the case. The ex-
penses of the local governments were increasing, and
with them was increasing also the indisposition of Par.
liament to vote the money of the mother country for
defraying them. Ministers, therefore, in this one
lucky instance, had no choice but to do what was
right in despite of their supporters. The emigration-
ists, opposing the Government on this subject, are of
that very common, not to say vulgar, class of modern
philosophers, who, when they have got hold of a princi-
ple, insist upon working it to the last extremity. Because
the colonization of our transmarine possessions can
in no way be so safely and speedily advanced as by
making the land defray the means of its own culti-
variation, therefore it is concluded that every shilling of
price diverted from the freight of labourers is lost to
the interests of colonization. In this philosophy man
is regarded not as a creature having passions, affece
tions, moral faculties, and powers—formed foe society
and destined for heaven—hut as a mere implement
of husbandry, a self-impelling steam-plough, and the
number of hands makes the sum of the colony. Go-
vernment, law, police, roads, bridges, wharfs, embank-
ments, public buildings, the practical sciences, the arts
of life, the schools of human and Divine instruction—
all those main necessaries of our earthly existence are
omitted in the provision of the philosophical etnigra-
tionist. No doubt all these things cost money, awl
make at first a large deduction from the fund which
you desire to employ so exclusively upon the freight of
human cargoes, but without them the cargoes are good
for nothing when delivered. You might just as well
refuse to bestow any part of the fund upon the
victuallir.g of the voyage, or upon the provision of
dwellings or tools for your labourers at the place of
their destination. The principle which should be im-
pressed on the minds of all who take an interest in
colonization is, that the mere locution of a certain pro-
portion (y labourers upon a certain allotment of land
will nut make a colony. Such a plantation, without
some Common institutions and objects, some moral and
religious connexion, to bind, and at times to bring toge-
ther, the scattered inhabitants of the wild country, is but
one degree, if at all, above the state of the hunter-tribes
of North America. The emigrants may have better
tools than those aborigines, and follow tame flocks of
sheep instad of wild herds buffalke,;.butior any '.Ming
that raises man above his animal condition, the friend
of human nature will search in vain among the English
coloni,ts, if the Government shall ever fall into the
views of those who think that the only legitimate ap-
plication of the land-fund is to export the maximum
of hands. The State has no right, under the pretence
of relieving a crowded population, to send a portion of
it beyond the reach of moral improvement and reli-
gious instruction. With the wealth which our manu-
factures have brought to us, we have contracted corre-
lative duties to the population which they have bred ;
and we are not entitled, for the sake of relieving our-
selves from so much more of our incumbent pauperism,
to huddle out a mass of people without those provisions
which constitute the necessaries and very eh talents of a
civilized community. In older countries, the amount
expended on public objects is defrayed from taxation
upon private property ; it is the good fortune of new
colonies that there is unappropriated land, the land of
the public, available for this purpose, without the levy
of taxes. But if the State is content to waive all pre-
sent benefit to its exchequer in the sale of the public
land, the least which that land can be expected to yield
is the sufficient and complete maintenance, social as
well as physical, religious ns well as civil, of the rising
nations that are planted on it.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
We must once more entreat all the Liberal electors
of Walsall to think only now of returning Mr. Smith.
Those who may feel offended at the proceedings
adopted with regard to Mr. Lyttelton, would do well
to reflect, that it a mistake has been committed, no
good can result from committing another. It would be
a grievous mistake to leave any means untried by which
the return of Mr. Gladstone can be prevented. We
would entreat those supporters of Mr. Lyttelton, who
may be offended at what has taken place, to consider
that Mr. Smith would in every respect be a suitable re-
presentative for aVaisau. If', then, they withhold their
support from Mr. Smith, they are responsible for the re-
turn of Mr. Gladstone. It will not do to say that if the
Radicals and advocates of tree trade had stood by Mr.
Lyttelton, Mr. Gladstone would have been defeated.
Mr. Lyttelton is no longer in the field, and the
fault of others cannot justify any portion of the elec-
tors entertaining Likral opinions, in disregarding the
positive duty of supporting a Liberal. They would
not be more culpable were they to vote for Gladstone,
than in refusing to vote for Mr. Smith ,if they thereby
secure the return of the former. If faults have been
committed, the fitting time for going into them is not
when the enemy is in field. Were we in the situation
of those supporters of Mr. Lyttelton, who conceive
that gentlemen to have been ill-used, the reproof we
should administer would be to exert our utmost ener-
gies on behalf of Mr. Smith. It gives us much satis•
faction to learn that the enthusiasm of the men of
Walsall has been roused, and the best hopes are enter-
tained that that place will have the distinction of re-
turning a stanch advocate of free trade to the House
of Commons. Much will it rejoice us to find that the
estimate we had been taught to form of the spirit and
independence of the men of Walsall is below their me-
rits. Their return of Mr. Smith at this time will have a
most salutary influence. We need not add, that
every manufacturing town in England is now looking
anxiously r toomw at rhde
s \Na lal,
of antia
n theyadvocate
after a Tory had been fifteen days in the field, end made
himself sure of victory from the faults committed by the
returns 1 would derive fresh
Liberals. The Radicals and advocates of free trade
will, unquestionably, support Mr. Smith. If he fail to
be returned, the circumstance will serve to widen the
breach elsewhere between the different divisions of
Liberals. We entreat the Whigs of Walsall and its
vicinity, who possess influence in that place, to reflect
" THE NAVAL SURGEON," BY THE AUTHOR on the possible consequences elsewhere of any back•
OF CAVENDISH," "THE: FLYING DUTCHMAN," Sze. This wardness on their part at tel time. Let the past be
new production of the author of " Cavendish" will add forgotten—it cannot be re -alle
• The effect of such a
greatly to the already high reputation he has acquired, as generous course of conduct cannot fail to operate most
one of the foremost of our nautical novelists. Since the beneficially. Once more, then, we call on all the Li-
days of " Ro&rick Random," the condition of medical berals to unite, and act cordially- The return of a
officers on boa-d ship, it need hardly be said, has mate- Tory, through the blunders of any portion of the Li-
rially changed, and from the consequent alteration of cir- berals, will reflect disgrace on all.
cumstances, we can scarcely expect that a modern " Naval
(From the Morning Herald.)Surgeon" should entertain us with a description of adven-
tures as racy as those which befel Smollett's celebrated The following paragraph is copied from the Lincoln
hero; yet their present position does not prevent our I Mercury :
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nautical doctors from having presented to their observa, " The picture W. Ullatorne, D. a, Vicar-General of
tion perhaps a greater variety of extraordinary and stirring New Holland and Van Diemen 's "ad, gives of the suffer_
pictures of life at sea than all other naval officers united. ings of the convicts at the penal settlements of Norfolk
The truth of this remark will be confirmed by a perusal Island, Moreton 133 Y. and
Port Arthur, is truly horrifying.
of these volumes, which abound with remarkable incidents The convicts work in chain-gangs, and are subject to the
and peculiar characters. The book is likely to become application of the lash at the will of the overseer, and at
a very popular one, for the intricate nature of the plot will night and on Sundays are locked
up in square portable
pique the curiosity of the mere novel reader—the sea de- ' boxes, 16 being crowded together a space considerably
tails will have a particular charm for those who admire , less than two feet square for each person the food on
-nautical romance—and the public generally are likely to Norfolk Island is salt meat and maiz e bread; and, mark
take a more than ordinary degree of interest in the per_ : the recklessness of life induced by the dreadful sufferings,
wi-Och prlncipalc!l:lracter3 c-f 11.0, v,i;ck, '5) indifferent bad even life become, that murders were
as they arr moatk drawi.i from the bc com:-,‘lft,tl bier ,!,1 wards declar-
ts Vi Ole that 11-, had tiO against his victim, but that
which have attached a considerable degree of notoriety to his sole object was to obtain his own release. Lots were
some of his works, even cast; the marl on whom it fell committed the deed,