The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-22 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

Charles France, aged 24, and Elizabeth Smith, wore in-
dicted for stealing eight sheets, ten silver spoons, a pair of sal.-
cellars, a bed, two blankets, and a variety of household furni-
ture, the property of Mary Ann Haldan.
Mr. Bodkin was counsel for the prosecution ; Mr. Payne de-
fended the prisoners.
The evidence was very conclusive, most of the property
having been traced and identified.
The Jury having, without hesitation, pronounced a verdict
of Guilty, they were severally sentenced to seven years trans-
portation.
During the course of the last week, great delays have been
occasioned by the non-attendance of Alderman, many of whom
it was hinted by a member of the bar, were amusing themselves
on electioneering matters, &c. The delay is sometimes too
bad, and it is much to be regretted that public business of such
an important nature should be neglected by those who ought to
set an example, by scrupulous attention to the magisterial
duties imposed upon them.
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ACCELERATION OF THE DUBLIN

MAIL.

The London evening mail was conveyed, for the first
time, on Tuesday morning, on the Chester and Crewe
and the Birkenhead and Chester Railway, and pat
on board the Post-office mail steamer, on the Cheshire
side of the river, a few minutes after six o'clock.
The train which brought the mail did not bring any
passengers ; a circumstance of which Lord R. Gros-
venor complained, on Friday evening, in the House of
Commons, his Lordship being then ignorant of the an-
nouncement from the Directors of the Grand Junc-
tion Railway Company, that, on and after to-day,
passengers as well as the mails will be conveyed on the
Chester and Crewe line. We believe that, on Wed-
nesday morning, the steamer, after having taken on
board the London mail, • was detained until the mail-
bags brought by the morning train from the north
were conveyed across the river. These bags are, we
understand, brought to this town by the same train
which brings the London evening mail ; so that, if the
steamer is detained for tbeir arrival, where is the
saving of time expected to be gained by conveying the
evening mail by the new route ? Of course, if our state-
ment is correct, either the northern mails must be expe-
dited from the point whenee they are run upon the rail-
way on :this side the river, or the steamer from the
other side must sail without them, and thus delay letters
and papers from the north one day in their arrival in
Dublin. From conversation with gentlemen practically
acquainted with the small steamers, we learn that the
grand subject of complaint with the passengers has been
the inconvenience caused by having, at certain times of
the tide, to be conveyed to and from the steamers in
small boats, while horses and carriages have been de-
layed for hours in landing and embarking.e• This
inconvenience arises from the want of a landing
stage or slip on the Liverpool side of the Mersey; an in-
convenience which is not felt on the Cheshire side, where
the slips run so far out that steamers can come alongside
at any time of the tide. Let the Corporation erect, with-
out delay, a slip with the same capacity opposite George's
Pier, and the Post-office Authorities, there can be little
doubt, will restore the mail-boats to this side. Mean-
while, if the new arrangement has for its object the rapid
conveyance of the mail, rather than of passengers, be-
tween London and Dublin, could not the Post-office
people run a special train, consisting of an engine and a
carriage, down to Liverpool or Birkenhead? The journey
might be accomplished in seven hours, and the steamers,
instead of leaving the Mersey. after six, might quit it
shortly after four o'clock, and, in average weather, reach
Dublin early in the afternoon. That would, indeed, be
an acceleration worth boasting of, and give great satisfac-
tion to all Ireland.—Liverpool Albion.

SINGULAR APPEARANCE OF THE RIVER.
—Yesterday morning between eleven and twelve o'clock a
very ludicrous and rather painful sight presented itself
on the river between Westminster and Blackfriars-
bridges. From the prevalence of a very strong
westerly wind the tide ebbed with unusual strength,
and near Waterloo-bridge the river was almost ford-
able. Many of the large Woolwich steamers, freighted
with holiday folks anxious to witness the launch of the
Trafalgar, were unable to get away at all, and those
who did had to bring up before reaching Waterloo-
bridge. Below this bridge three of the large red-
funnel steamers were aground—one off the square
shot tower on the Surrey shore, and two on the
Middlesex side. Some of the small boats were no
better off. The Twilight was aground, literally crammed
with passengers, at the foot of Waterloo-bridge stairs.
A Richmond steamer also got ashore at the same time!
It was a most
overloaded ; it was said that some of them intended to pro
painful sight to witness the small boats Fo
seed to Woolwich: if so, such perilling of human life
cannot be too strongly reprehended.
A Company is in the course of formation at
Hull for the establishment of a trade with the South Sea
Islands.
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If the world is to be held together by lies; the
old, which are already current, are just as good as the
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