The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-23 00:00:00

CROYDON PETTY SESSIONS.

(13-.4bre Mr. D. R. WARINGTON, and Messrs. REID,

ELYARD, and SUTHERLAND.)

A good looking young woman, named Martha Bar-
ber, was brought up in the custody of Sergeant Lox-
ton, of the R division of police, charged on suspicion of
being concerned in a burglary at 'the dwellinff- house of
the Rev. Mr. Gabler, of Norwood VIIII, °Croydon,
and stealing 1501. in Bank of England notes, a quantity
of plate, and other valuable articles, to the amount of
upwards of 4001. the property of that gentleman.
Mr. Richards, of Croydon, attended in support of
the prosecution. It appeared from the evidenee ad-
duced, that the prisoner was servant to the prosecutor,
but she had recently given him warning, and was shortly
to have quitted his service. On Thursday night about
twelve o'clock the prosecutor and his family retired to
bed, and about six o'clock in the morning tie prisoner
gave an alarm that the house had been robbed. The
prosecutor went down stairs, and found that a pane of
glass had been broken in the kitchen window, and the
kitchen door was also open, and he observed likewise
that there were marks of violence on the pantry door.
Upon further search he discovered that the
drawing-room had been ransacked of a variety of va-
luable property to the amount of 4001. The police
were called in, and upon their examining the premises
they were decidedly of opinion that the marks of vio-
lence were all simulated, and that the house had net
been entered by means of any external violence, but
that some person in the interior must have been con-
cerned. The prisoner was asked for the key of her
box, which she at first eppearcd reluctant to give up,
but on the box being opened an oyster knife was found
in it, and when the officer Lawson was about to apply
it to the marks on the pantry door, the prisoner told
him not to do that, and at the same time handed him a
screw-driver, which she said she thought would fit. He,
however, applied the oyster knife to the marks on the
door, and it fitted then exactly. Upon searching the
garden the marks of two men's naked feet were traced to
the wall, and in an adjoining empty house the desk of the
prosecutor was found broken open and the papers strewed
about, and the screw-driver which the prisoner gave the
officer appeared to hat e been the instrument employed to
break it open. It also appeared that on the day before
the robbery the prisoner inquired of a, oung lady who
was staving with Dr. Gabler, whether the handles of
a carvhl knife and fork were silver, and where they
were I apt. There were other circumstances of a
suspicic as character which induced the prosecutor to
give tlhl prisoner into custody, in order thr.t the matter
might undergo investigation before the Magfstra.e4.
The CHAIRMAN int:piled whether any of the stolen
propery had been traced.
Mr. Gabler said it had not, and unfortunately he
had not taken the numbers of the notes.

Mr. SUTHERLAND—Did you have a good character
with the prisoner.
Mr. Gabler—We took her into our service upon the
recommendation of another old confidential servant, but
I have since discovered that there have been some un-
pleasant circumstances in other plice3 where the pri-
soner has been in service.

Tile prisoner protested her innocence in the stronge,t
terms, and the Magistrates altar some ditheration said,
that it was certainly a case of very great snspicion,
but they did not think the evidence would warrant
them in remanding the prisoner. They should, tlbere-
fore, discharge her upon her entering into her recognizance
to appear on a futare day in case she should be required
to do so.

NEWFOUNDLAND HOUSE OF

ASSEMBLY.

(From the Newfoundland. Timis cf Feb. 17.)

The most prominent feature in the " sayings and
doings" of the House of Assembly during the past weak
was the passing and presenting to his Excellency the
Governor of an address praying for copies of all the
documents relating to the recent outrages at Carhonear,
upon which his Excellency founded certain language
which he deemed it his imperative duty to use in his
speech on opening the present session of the Legisla-
ture, by which address it appears that, (Unmet from
all the rest of the community, the House is in a state
of the most happy ignorance with regard to those evens
—that it knows nothing at all about them. It pro-
fessed to require further information before it could be
" in a situation to judge of the necessity of altering the
election law."

Tile following is his Excellency's most
_i(Ldiciou,s,snd
well.timeaio
to
this tactus rinctress--nnu would we
corn "set" it in letters of gold :
" Gentlemen,—The scandelms events which occurred
at two partial elections during the late recess—the
ferocious conduct of a mob at Carbonell-, by which one
of those elections was rendered abortive—and the neces-
sity of military interference and protection on these oc-
casions, are matters of general notoriety.
" I consider that the documents already before the
House are sufficiently demonstrative to prove those
evils—aud, in the exercise of my discretion under the
existing circumstances of the colony, I must decline
compliance with this address, believing that no good
could result to the community from the pub!icaton of
all the representations which I have rcce.ved on this
.subject.
"So convinced am I of the absolute necessity of an
amendment of the election law, that I avail myself of
this opportunity to state, that should, unhappily, no
legislative enactment be male during this session, to
secure the free exercise of th 3 franchise, and public
tranquillity in future elections, I will not undertake
the responsibilty of issuing prod ans Cons or writs for
the election of a new House of Assembly, or make my-
self accountable for the serious consegoences, the con-
fusion and bloodshed, so likely to ensue therefrom under
the present system ; hut, referring the whole affair to
the Supreme Government, I will, as in duty hound,
implicily follow such directions as I may receive in that
behalf.
" Government House, Feb. 12, 1841."

REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH

DEVON.

The Western Luminaryannounced to us on Tues-
day afternoon, that a new arrangement has taken pl ice
between the Lords of the Acres of the Southern
Division, by which Mr Montague Edmund New-
combe Parker will resign the representation of
the Division in Parliament, and the Lord Cour-
tenay will quietly welk into his seat. Tille is ail
just as it should be. My Lord Stanley, with a
franknes which is becoming to his order, tell us in the
recent Irish debate, that the votes were intended for
those who owned the acres, aid not for those who
dwelt on them. It hardly needed Lord Stanley's
candour to make this fact apparent in S:iuth
Devon ; the principle had been so fully established
before, that very few sane men were inclined to
doubt its operation. This arrangement, as we are
graciously informed by the Luminary, took place at
the Clarence Hotel, the very respectable house of
call in the Cathedral-yard, where the clergy are ac-
customed to cat their professional dinners, after the
solemn business at visitations. Who were pre-
sent, or by whom the initiative was taken in the
proccedinr, we know not, but it is announced that
family reasons have induced Mr. Parker to withdraw,
and family reasons seem to have found a very ready
successor in the person of Lord Courtenay. We
have not a word to say against this arrangement,
which is us fit a one, under the circumstances of the
case, as could be well imagined. Mr. Parker repre-
sents the priesthood of the county. On that principle
he was brought forward ; and on that principle will
his successor be nominated. Since the Luminary
appeared, we have seen Mr. Parker's announcement of
his retirement, and Lord Courtenay's acceptation of
the honour which this well-concoct-2d requisition is to
confer upon him. Lord Courtenay has ready amiable
qualities, and we have seen our good Bishop pass the
episcopal benediction upon him PS one honouring, by
his hereditary attachment, the established religion of
the country. We have a high respect for our
good Bishop's judgment, and fully believe diet the
Noble Lord is qualified to do the work which the
clergy require at his hands ; for, after all, although
the acres of the squires really carry the county, it is
the parsons who carry the squires, and the Church
reigns triumphant. Lord Courtenay possesses many
amiable traits of character, and has a laudable
ambition to devote himself to public business ; but
we warn the independent portion of the constituency
that with all his amiability and high sense of honour,
which we most frankly accord to him, he is the tecl,
and nothing but the too', of a band of bigot, who seek
to regain their lost power by trampling on every
principle of human independence. They have long
since learnt to walk over the franchise of the Reform
Bill, and through the agency of this Lord they seek to
recover their power over the people—for a time they
will succeed, but the day of reaction and of reckoning,
cannot be far distant. The men who struggled for the
franchise, and beat down the old boroughmongering
system, will not tamely submit to these aristocratic
juntas.— Western Times,