The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-24 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

At the Devizes Assizes an action was brought by
Mr. Wright, Master of the Pewsey Union, against the
Rev. William Bleeck, Rector of Huish. The Rev. Gen-
tleman charged the plaintiff with improper intimacy
with a young pauper girl, and in one of his letters con-
taining other grievous charges (for what it appears there
was not the slightest foundation), he expresses his anxiety
for " the moral and religious training of poor perishing
souls " under the care of such " an unprincipled head."
The jury gave 200/. damages.
The suit instituted by the Rev Dr. Dillon against
his young wife for adultery, came on for hearing in the
Consistory Court, when some very suspicious circum-
stances were stated by the Judge respecting the object
of the suit. " The charge," said Dr. Lushington, " must
be viewed with great suspicion, and he wished his mind
satisfied that the husband himself believed it, and had
brought a true case before the Court." What Dr. Dil-
lon is this ?

At Marlborough-street, yesterday, two lads were fined
ss. each for playing at cricke tin Hyde Park, with a warning
from the Magistrate, that if the offence were repeated,
the full penalty, 405., would be inflicted:
—' At the final examination of the Wakefields in the
Bankruptcy Court on Thursday, it appeared that the bank-
rupts had sold out 45,0001. stock, besides misapplying
33,0001. of monies left in their hands for investment.
It was altogether a very melancholy case," said Sir C.
F. Williams, the Commissioner, " and had it occurred a
few years ago the bankrupts would have been liable to
transportation for 14 years."

SPORTING.
The annual July regatta for Eton comes off to-
morrow, when Prince Albert will be present.

PUZLIC OPMTION.

The Tory Journals already begin to quarrel about the
spoil. They have not yet caught their hare, and they
are wrangling how she shall be cooked. As they think
themselves the great authors of the Whig discomfiture,
they properly suppose they have a right to the prize,
and if they cannot make their several editors Ministers,
they have at least claims that the favourite of each should
fill a high place. One is for Buckingham, another for
Lyndhurst, and a third for Lord Roden. Sir Robert Peel,
or the Earl of Aberdeen, or whoever may be called to
form the Cabinet, will have an arduous task to satisfy
the claims of all the cormorants who will surround him.
The leading organ o►f the Tory party, the veracious
Times, coolly gives the lie to the statement of Lord
John Russell promising that he will give the Government
no factious opposition. Rather than perform this pro-
mise, it asserts, Lord John would consent to brush Mr
Roebuck's shoes, or perform the ho-tow to Mr. O'Connell.
Our readers ought to know that the ho-tow is a Chinese
punishment, especially inflicted on renegades and calum-
niators.

The Morning Advertiser expresses great sympathy
for Sir Robert Peel, and fears he will be torn to pieces
before he can put his Cabinet together. The circum-
stance of the long exclusion of the Tories from office
will only make them more greedy and doubly ravenous,
and to quiet the growling of the pack, to whom he

cannot throw even a bone, will require courage and tact
gye:ttot,r than Van Amburg has yet displayed among his
wild beasts.

According, to.the Ckronicle, the Church is to join
with the rabid crew in worrying the unhappy Actmon.
The Puseyites are open-mouthed for his destruction.
The war first waged in the Times (through Catholicuf,
alias Mr. Newman), mul,afterwards in the British Critic,
the great organ of the;Paseyites;- still rages.
" We ci6ll- formed:of benefits de7
rived from a Tory Admvulistration," savi the Cork South-
ern Reporter. "We are told very significantly that the new
Minister will astonish his own party by his liberalit
We know not whether we ought to laugh, or be indig-
nant at what is certainly folly, and may be dishonesty.
A Liberal Government composed of the Leaders of the
Tory faction ! It is a ridiculous absurdity—a base and

dangerous deceit."

The Wiltshire Independent sarcastically attacks the
new trick of the Tories to deceive working-men into their
toils. Their shift has bees to bolster up their bad cause
by pronouncing that Mr. Cobbett—who was always re-
garded with respect, or almost adoration, by the middle
and working classeS, especially the agricultural portion—
was a friend -to taxation on foreign corn. The Inde
pendent shows the statements to be shamefully garbled,
with interpretations put upon bits here and bits there.
" I," said Mr. Cobbett, in 1819, "I AM for OPEN ports

Fon corn."

The Dublin_ Pilot is violent at the prospect of Tory
rule. " There is preparing for Ireland," it says, " a
bloOdy persecution of her religion, her clergy, and her
people. Col: Jackson's Justice for Ireland'—the six-
inch howitzers—will not be an empty threat, but a truth
betrayed."