The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-21 00:00:00

BU TV-STREET.

A youth, named William Hunter, was yesterday brought
before Mr. Twyford, charged on suspicion with attempting
to steal a parcel, containing a quantity of papers, from the
office of the South Australian Company, Adelphi-tertace,
Mr. Gliddon, Clerk to the Company's Secretary, said
that the prisoner had been employed as junior clerk in the
establishment.

Jefemiah Lovedale, messenger and office-keeper, proved
that, on Tuesday morning last, he found the parcel pro.
duced in a desk of the office, which did not belong to any
particular clerk. It was broken open, and when the pri-
soner came to business, on tieing asked it he had broken it
open; he said that he 11,;(1 done so with the intention of
reading over the contents, and had thrown the covers into
the drawer where the waste paper is usually deposited.
The preei contained some printed papers which had Leen
s2nt from the country to be forwarded to Australia, but
witness did not know what was the quantity, and he had
always observed that the prisoner evinced much curiosity
in looking into papers passing through the office, although
he could not -.ay it was his intention to have stolen the pro-
perty in ques-tion.
The boy admitted that he had broken open the parcel as
stated, in ori,ler to read the contents, which he intended to
do by the &at opportunity.
Mr. Glid.tion said that the parcel had been sent up from
the country by a gentleman, to be forwarded to a relative
in the colony, and as he did not know what it contained, be
would wait to aim tain if any portion of it had been de-
stroyed.

TWVFORD said that as it did hot appear to be the
intention of ti to prisoner to steal or destroy any portion of
the property, he considered it better to send him home to
his friatdx, w ho would deal with him in a more prudent
manner than sending him to prison.

.M.ijor Catiogan, of Breakbourne, Northumbet-
land, has started, on the Tory side, for the vacancy at Morpeth.
STATIONERS' AND PAPERMAKERS' P,ROVI7
DENT Soc twrir.—Tuesday a highly respectable meeting 9f
persons eria.d ged in the above trades, w-s held at the hall of the
Stationers:• company, for the purpose of establishing thii
Society. - A numb r of the most influential stationers at: .fl r signified their approbation of the obj%tts of the
meeting ; amongst whom were Sir John Key, Bart., Mr.
Aldermar Magnay, Mr. Alderman Venables, Messrs. Gros-
venor, C!Co., cater, and Co Messrs. Battye, Melville, and Co.,
and Mess .rs. N orris and Johnson. Sir John Williams (of the
firm of Williams, Cooper, Boyle, and Co., of WeA Smith-
field), ti :Rik the chair, and staled the nature of the Society,
.whieh was to establish a permanent fund for the assistance of
stati on, ,rs, stationers' assistants, master paper-manufacturers,
stati on E.rs and booksellers, stationers and printers, stationers
and bi .okbinders, being members of the Society, and their
widows, when in necessitous circumstances ; to be under the
=mg ement of a president, vise-president, four trustees, a
trees' at er, and a committee of twenty-one. Members to be
electc_d at the first general meeting. The first resolution was
moved by Mr. Alderman Venables, and seconded by Mr. Rowe,
the Mat ;ter of the Stationers' .Company. A number of other
resolu tip ns, in relation to the objects of the Society, were
moved, seconded, and carried unanimously; after which a vote
of the ailcs was passed to the Worshipful the Stationers' Com-
pany 1 or the use of their hall, and to the worthy Chairman for
his cc vduct on the occasion ; after which the meeting sepa-
rated.
H ORRIBLE POPISH OFFENCE.—(From a
Corm spondent. )—The Edinburgh .Stardard of the 15th inst.
start] es its pious readers with the following awful announce-
ment : We are ashamed to say it, but it is probable that in
no p. Art of the British dominions are greater
exertions made
for t b e spread of Popery ;" e. g. " On Monday last, the Queen's
nuP ti al day, divine service was performed at the Roman Catho-
lic c} :ape', Broughton-street, for the purpose (as the advertise-
w.en t expressed it,) of imploring the blessings of Heaven on her
Maj esty's marriage." Hew awful !—this Popery will be the
dew
.h of us. But as some alleviation of the afHiction which
thi ; alarming intelligence might occasion, the editor might
ha• ;e added that no such atrocity as praying fcr the happiness of
mu • Queen, was suffered to be perpetrated is any
apel of our Established Church. Church or