The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-14 00:00:00

BOW-STREEI:

Mr. Adolphus, the barrister, appeared before Mr. HALL
yesterday, to prefer a complaint against two cabriolet
drivers, Nos. 309 and 1,455, for refusing to take him as a
fare, and leaving their vehicles unattended on the stand,
in Picket-street, Strand, for which they were fined 10s.
each, with costs. The case being proved by the Learned
Gentleman's servant, he said that having for a considerable
time been annoyed by the impositions practised upon him
by the cabdrivers and coachmen he was compelled on
several occasions to summon them before Magistrates, and
have them punished, in consequence of which they seemed
to have come to a resolution not to drive him, be the hurry
ever so great, for whenever he approached a stand every
one of them either deserts his horse, or drives away as if
they were at that moment called to another direction, but
he was determined to break the neck of such a system,
and he hoped that the conviction of the defendants would
serve as a warning to others in the trade.
Mr. John Alexander Weir, who was brought up on
Thursday in a state of insanity, and committed to Tothill-
fields prison, for the purpose of having him examined by
the surgeon, was again brought up to have an order made
out for his being placed under restraint in a Lunatio
Asylum at King's-cross The poor man appeared in a
more disturbed state of mind than when he was first given
into custody, and on a coach being procured for his re-
moval, he became so furious as to require the strength of
several policemen to keep him from injuring himself, and
every person who came within his reach. After consider-
able difficulty he was however bound hands and feet, and a
sufficient number of constables conveyed him to his des-
tination.

A number of butchers were summoned by Stowell, the
common informer, for obstructing the footway pavement,
by placing their chopping-blocks and stall-boards eighteen
inches from their doors. They were each fined in a pe-
nalty of 2s. and costs.
Mr. HALL said he would allow the informer half the
penalty, as the sum was small, which he certainly would
not do if it was so many pounds, nor would he advise him
to expect it at any future time, as the late Act empowered
him to award any part of the pen Llty he thought proper.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
Ireland has spoken out, in language more effectual for
the destruction of Tory hopes of office, than if her seven
millions of Catholic peasantry had assembled en her pleins,
and endangered the public peace by their numbers or
broken it by their acts. The voice which Ireland has
uttered proceeds not merely from her peasantry headed
by O'Conne,l, but from a large section of bar aristo-
cracy, with the flower of her peerage at its head. The pro-
ceedings of the great aggregate meeting of the Reformers
of Ireland, held to Dubin on Friday, composed
of names and numoers which must at any period com-
n►and attentive respect for the sentiments they might
express, will at this crisis produce a powerful effect
in both countries. To the demands of the large
portion of the supporters of Sir Robert Peel—
who denounce the Roman Catholics as unfitted by
their creed to hold office in a Protestant State, and who
have raised the " No Popery" cry as the rallying word
for opposition to the present Government because it
has refused to absolutely exclude those from office
whom the law of 1829 declares to be eligible for it—
to those infuriated and blinded adherents of a
policy which was sanctioned by law until the in-
tegrity of the empire was jeopardised by its exis-
tence, do we acknowledge our obligations for the ser-
vice they have rendered to a Liberal Administration by
the demonstration they have caused, and the powerful
appeal they have called forth to the sense of right
and justice which, however it may be laid asleep for
a season, will ultimately prevail. To that sense of right
and justice we fearlessly refer the examination of
the principles on which it rests, and the claims it em-
bodies :—" The great mass of the people in Great
Britain is Protestant, in Ireland Roman Catholic
whoever, therefore, attempts to set Protestants against
Roman Catholics, labours, in effect, to set Great Bri
tale against Ireland, and, by consequence, Ireland
against Great Britain."

(From the Courier.)
We have received a communication from tht!
" Church Pastoral Aid Society," by which we per-
ceive that the Committee consider the present to ,be a
favourable time for calling the attention of the public to
the objects of that admirable institution. When we
state that the Society's aid is extended to 240 Incum-
bents, in charge of 1,778,000 souls, giving an average
charge to each incumbent of 7,411 souls, the useful-
ness of the Society, and the benefits which it has
already conferred on the community, will be readily
acknowledged. But great as the, good is which it has
already effected, much remains to be done. The recent
fatal disturbances which have taken place in Monmouth-
shire, and the discontents which have been there engen-
dered, have been mainly caused by the want of that
religious and moral instruction, which it is the endea•
your of this Society to aid in supplying.
(From the Standard.)
This is a startling view of the Bill of 1829. If the
Catholic Emancipation Bill requires that Romanists
shall command place and profit, and indirectly
the Government of the empire as Romanists,
the law is not only intolerable for a Protestant, but
disgraceful for any civilized country,
Such a sects.
rian divine right, such a hiersiocracv, was never
before acknowledged among men. See what its
effect must be. Romanists hate Tories with a backbone
hatred. This hatred they conceive because the Tories,
tolesßomanists
as they call them, resist their. attacks upon the Pro-
testant Church ; but the Bill of 1829, which, more than
makin
g het'on offieliegei,blrci
office,eetouiresioile entitles
give thema office,
pe-
remptorilyce,
er
and as the Tories cannot be expected to give office to
their backbone enemies, the Tories must be per-
petually excluded from power. The Romanists have
been accustomed to call themselves with very little truth
the people of Ireland, but this version of the Act of
1829 would make them the people of the empire.