The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-13 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

On the parish authorities of St. George sending the
fireman to receive the -elagistrates' award for attending
with the engines on an alarm of fire, Mr. Hardwicke in-
formed Lacy, who attended for St. George's parish, that
his colleague, Mr. Maltby, and himself, had taken the
subject into their consideration, and had come to the
conclusion that the -usual mode of making-awards in that
Court was not sanctioned by the Act of Parliament.
They had taken the opinion of Sir William Polka, who
entirely coincided with them. Instead of making the
award, as fomerlv was the case, the Magistrates, for
the future,s onhi expect the churchwardens and over-
seers to institute the negessary investigations, and ap-
portion the rewards accordingly. This alteration had
been made in St. James's parish, and, for the purpose
of securing neiformity in the proceedings of the Court,
a communication ought to be made to the vestry-clerk
and the parish authorities' of St. George's, acquainting
them with the decision of the Magistrates. -
Turner, from St. George's, said that it was not
likely that' the present churchwardens of that parish,
Lord llallaway and the Honourable Mr. Clive, would
trouble themselves about fires. They would refer the
matter to the overseers, who would refer it to Lacy, who
would bring the case before the Magistrates in precisely
its present shape.
Mr. HAnnwiex said he must have the autho-
rities of St. George's, through their vestry-clerk,
made acquainted with the decision of the Magis-
trates. The Magistrates would in future have nothing
whatever to do with the-granting of the rewards—that
must be the act of the parish themselves, and all the
Magistrates would do . was to affirm what they had done.
The case was then postponed.
Mu. GUNDRY AGAIN.—Mr. Gundry, the gentleman
who has recently made himself so notorious by his eccen-
tricities, was again brought under the notice of the
Bench by a respectable-locking female, who applied for
a warrant against him.
The applicant said she was servant to a gentleman in
the Albany, where Mr. Gundry also had chambers.
Mr. Gundry had taken offence at something, and had
lately pursued a system of annoyance towards her,
, abusing her grossly and threatening to do her some se-
rious mischief

Mr. llAnnwlcK asked if she had been struck by Mr.
Gundry ? The applicant said she had. Mr. Gundry
had also threatened to stab her, and had stabbed the
door through which she had made her escape in a num-
ber of places.

Mr. flAnnwwit directed thatia summons should imme-
diately issue.

HATTON GARDEN.
A Pr.oxislsG FAMlLY.—Hannah Jerry and Sarah
Judd, her daughter, a fine young woman, eighteen years
of age, was charged with stealing in the dwelling-house
of Mr. Francis Hancock, butcher, of Thornhill-street,
Islington, 12/. in gold and silver, a quantity of jewellery
and plate, and much other valuale propert. Mc:.
elder prisoner is the mother of sevberal childreyn, all °1
whom turned out badly, the danghters having at IT,
early age become prostitutes, and the sons thieves. 1)1'
appeared that about eight mouths ago the fascinations(,
the younger prisoner Induced a respectable young
tzitei
to offer her marriage. No sooner was the knot d
however, than the bride, having obtained from her lonuist:
band sixteen sovereigns, formed an excuse t?,,Voveive;
After waiting with all a bride's impatience "
o'clock at night, he went in search of her,
that his faithful rib had started, campanyon:',
JILS Oniy
flame, to Gravesend to spend the honvw
°iper. A few
share in the transaction Ling to pay thetleP prosecutor's
weeks back she took apartments
irnisoner came home
house. On Friday last. the elder
Ps observed coming
a:1(111 learnednnlci
ov4u.lithofittehre in)rliodseneouttolrangbendfrteoroms,i,laeinviarced.i3 tlfYras.ftlle raNnvchoicckh
the elder prisoner took her
er drawers, and find-
the s olen property
ippnrogoliceneeceaadlreeltn3l,, fiboit4l.lll,l‘,‘,:lotolrinti to
the,eadmi:eincre
was found on the
ORSH 7
UGHTlin.— George ocThy, the
Crtattou °F ''A-;an, was brought before Mr. Cot-
driver of St causing the death of Mr. Alex-
•
ander Is,“
They were com__rnitted__f;rr,t.r;aTi.REET;
tingham,
deceased, who was
a 30. ie
d.
that:Cr,s aatfini tldhe afflicted
Friday attxl ha
N:Ntiltt-iir:oe(aieda.fness, w
as
cross.
a Iliall•road, when he was knocked down by
ing by the defendant, by which his ribs were
a van at
la so dreadful a manner that he expired shortly
crushede
aaante:i.raeletetira in years
where he was carried immediately
after the accident. The accused, who immediately gave
his address, and apppears by the evidence to have ren-
dered all the assistance in his power and to have shown
also much concern at the unfortunate occurrence, was
committed to take his trial for manslaughter.
Susan &Lib% it young female in an advanced stage of
pregnancy, was charged with attempting to throw her-
self into the Thames.
Prishoz6iee.Tr°P.e.r.tyll

James Henderson stated that Itc is a porter at the
London and Westminster steam-boat pier, and that on
Tuesday morning last, while he was standing on the pier,
he'observed the defendant walking up and down as if she
were waiting for one of the steam-boats. All on a sud-
den, • however, she plunged off the pier into the river,
and the tide running down at the time she was carried
away, and sank twice. before he could disengage the boat
alongside the pier to go to her assistance. When she
rose to the surface the third time he caught her by the
hair, and succeeded in preserving her from being
drowned. As she was in a state of insensibility she was
'conveyed to Lambeth Workhouse, in the infirmary of
which she had remained until she was considered sufli-
cientlY recovered to be brought to this Court.
In reply to the interrogatories of the Magistrate the

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pas to th:: Quecn ager ; that she quitted the service
of that gentleman three weeks ago under the apprehension
that the family would discover the pregnancy, and that she
then came to London and took lodgings in St. Martin's-
lane. Before entering the service of Mr. Fletcher she became
acquainted with a man named James Bennett, a private
in the Coldstream Guards, now stationed at Charing-
cross Barracks. On Monday last, having obtained leave
of absence, he promised to take her into the country to
visit his friends. With this expectation she accompa-
nied him to a public-house in the Kent-road, where he
left her, with a promise to return immediately. Find-
ing that he did not return she made inquiries, and
learned that he had gone into the country without her.
Despair and grief at her forlorn and abandoned situation
at length impelled her to attempt self-destruction. Her
father, a farrier, residing at Issington, in Hampshire,
was wholly ignorant of her deplorable condition, and
she had no friends in London to whom she could apply
for bail. The unfortunate creature, who seemed to feel
deep contrition at the attempt she made upon her own
life and that of her offspring, was, instead of being.com-
mi tted to the county gaol, sent to the workhouse, where she
is to be kept until herfriends are apprised of her situation.
Mr. Cottingham gave Henderson a letter to the Secre-
tary of the Humane Society, recommending him strongly
as entitled to the reward for saving the life of a fellow-
creature.

PARIS CORRECTIONAL POLICE.

It was three o'clock in the afternoon, the rain fell in
trrrents, there was no possibility of the petit pied
mignon of a pretty woman trusting itself to the perilous
DilV gatjon of the streets ; equally itnpossible was it to
adventure the gossamer textures of a graceful, light,
aro; fashincable toilet in the teeth of a weather the most
brutally intemperate, the least gallant and considerate
in the world. To remain at home was, alas! inevita-
ble ; and, at the very hour when fashion sanctions the
promenade of elegraat Parisians, the fairest dames of
the Chaussee d'Antin were compelled to remain stretch-
ed at full length on a paressease, and seek in the demi-
soninzell of the boudoir, or the profoundly lethargic
perusal of the last new► novel, oblivion of the horrid
weather and the enjoyments which it rendered impos-
sible. Such was the resolution taken on one
of those unnatural days which have upset the seasons
of late by a charming young widow, not yet advanced
beyond her 20th year, as in her own eyes, and the re-
flection of her mirror, she looked the fairest flower that
adorned ber elegant boudoir in the Rue Hauteville.
Too young to hate recourse to vapous; megrims, or
books of piety, when the sky was thick and overcast,
the gcnlille widow took refuge, from the assaults of the
demon enroll, in a languid Oriental siesta, and a new
romance, which had become with much complaisance an
accomplice in the designs of Morpheus, had fallen on
the carpet ;rorn the rose-tipped fingers of the belle
dcrnieuse.

She had E.lept thus for about half an hour, when
a young ar,d pretty soubrelle (none else figure in ro-
mances or police reports) gently opened the door,
and penetrated upon the extremities of her toes,
like Mademohelle Taglioni in La Sylphide, into the in-
terior of the boudoir ; the rustling of her garments was
shifficient to awaken the exquisitively sensitive mistress,
" You were sleeping, Madame?" " What is it you
want, Annette?" " A gentleman, Madame, wishes to
speak to you." A i,,rentlernan-? Do I know him ?"
" I don't think you do, Madame. He calls himself
Monsieur Caesar, and says that he has an affair of the
utmost importance to communicate to you." "Is he
young?" " From seven-and•t.venty to thirty years old,
sports primrose kids, rather a fine figure—" "Show
him in."

While the soubrette proceeded to announce to tha
visitor that he bad permissioh to present himself to the
mistress of the mansion, the buxom widow threw a
rapid glance at the mirror before her, drew her morning
gown jauntily over her shoulders, retouched her auburn
ringlets, and soon appeared sufficiently satisfied with
herself to dare to expose her person to the inquisitive
looks of a stranger. At last she assumed a graceful
pose on the divan, and exclaimed " Faites entrer."
A gentleman dressed in the most outrageous styli of
fashion, cravatted, pinched up, ringleted, and perfumed,
entered the boudoir with something of an embarrassed
air, saluted the lady with the most profound respect,
and expressed himself in these terms :—" I cannot be
deceived, Madame, it was certainly you that I had the
honour of seeing yesterday in the Tuilleries garden"—
" Monsieur, en effet, I was yesterday at the Tuilleries?
but may I ask —?"" I was perfectly certain I-was not
mistaken. It is impossible, ti.ough one should have
seen it but for a moment, to forget that enchanting
grace, that"--" Pardon me, Monsieur, it is surely
rot for the purpose of paying compliments that you
have taken the trouble to"--" No, Madame, it
is a genuine service that I am about to render
you." " A moi, .Monsieur " Did you lose no-
thing yesterday in the course of your promenade ?"
"I do not think it." " Pardonnez moi, you lost
this charming little beast." With these words the
strange gentleman drew from his coat pocket a very
pretty little white poodle, with a long silken coat, a
love of a little darling, and a true chien de Marquise.
" Monsieur," said the lady, though her teeth watered
the while, " you are deceived ; this dog does not be-
long to me." "Els Lien ! Madame, he belongs to you
from this moment, if you will only permit me to do you
the homage of presenting him to you." " You are too
good, Sir. Nut having the honour of your acquain-
tance, I cannot think----"

Madame, it depends only on yourself whether I
shall has e the felicity of being known to you ; if you
should but deign to authorize my occasional visits"
" Monsieur,"raid the young widow, rising with a pretty
pout, " your visit and your request arp both extremely
singular ; I trust that this pleasantry may not be
further prolonged."
The lady rang for her femme de "chambre, who
straightway appeared, having probably taken liberties
with the key-hole, and ordered her to show Monsieur
Cmsar to the street-door. The latter, however, burn-
ing with shame, and irritated by his discomfiture, was
very far from toeing zealous in yitl ling obedience to the
lady's, orders. " Madame," he exclaimed, throwing
himself on his knees, a l'Opera Comique, "pardon a
ruse, which was dicated by the most violent love, the
most sincere affection. For many a long month I have
adored you, and to secure the happiness of being but
for a few moments in your presonce, t have conceived
the plan of offering you this charming little dog. 06,
for the love of --, do not refuse him
The offended widow repeated her command to the
gentleman to quit her apartments, a:Ad carry his " nasty
beast" with himr Words were exchanged between
them with some vivacity, and with not a little spite.
The dog took part in the quarrel, and began to bark
with an importunate ztt.,, which provoked the lady to
such a degree, that t-he presently invited hire, with her
mignon foot, to pass to the other side of the door. But
the spunkp little annimal, surning round upon her in
wrath, recklessly attacked her debonnaire person, and
speelilp matte los escape, carrying with him a conside-
rable fragment of her exquisite robe of mousseline de
laine. Mr. Car followed :his dog, and the soubrette
foflowed Caesar, lustily insisting on being paid the price
of her mistress's " ruined robe."

The affair came at last before the correctional tri-
bunal. Monsieur Coasar's defence was curious. lie
alleged that his reason for not
paing the price of the
robe pulled u " fore
robe was that he was desirous of being
the express purpose of seeing once more the inhumanp
fair. Proud as his Roman rainesake, the defendant
volunteered to pay for a whole wardrobe, and even' to
give both his hand and his name to his fair antagonist.
But the latter repulsed with cold disdain the advance's
of a man who condescended to take his seat on the de-
fendant's bench of a pubic tribunal.
The unfortunate M. Ctesar was himself condemned
to 25 francs damages and 25 francs costs, as well for
violating
his neighbour's domicile as for being an accom-
plice in the degradation of her garmefits. Having de.
posited his rouleau of 5 franc pieces with an air, he
announced his determination of registering an appeal
against the judgment of the Court, not because he
eonsidered it too severe, but solely to have the happi-
ness of one more peep at the cruel widow in the Cour
Royale.

TAXATION AND REPRESENTATION.-Pre-
vious to his descent on England, William the Conqueror
assembled a council of his nearest friends, to demand
their advice and assistance. They all approved of the
expedition, aad promised to serve William with their
persons and goods. " But," said they, " this is not all—
You must ask assistance and counsel of the great body of
the people of the country ; for it is but right that those
who pay the expense should be called to consent to it."
Then William, say the chroniclers, convoked a great as-
sembly of men of all classes in Normandy, laid before
them his project, and solicited their assistance—then
left them, that they might deliberate freely. We per-
ceive by this that even so early as the days of the Con-
queror, people had got hold of the notion that " taxation
and representation should go together ;" or, to express
it in the language of those days,' that "it is but right
those who pay the expense should be called to consent
to it."

VOCAL MACHINERY OF BIRDS.—It is
cult to account for so small a creature as a bird making
a tone as loud as some animals a thousand times its size ;
but a recent discovery has shown, that in birds the lungs
have several openings communicating with correspond-
ing air-bags or cells, which fill the whole cavity of the
body from the neck downwards, and into which the air
passes and re-passes in the progress of breathing. This
is not all : the very bones are hollow, from which air-
pipes are conveled to the most solid parts of the body,
even into the quills and feathers. This air being rarified
by the heat of their body, adds to their levity. By forc-
ing the air out of the body, they can dart from the
greatest height with astonishing velocity. No doubt,
the same machiney forms the basis of their vocal powers,
and at once solves the mystery.—Gardiner's Music of
_Nature.

The returns for the City of Londonderry within
the limits fixed by the Irish Reforp. Act, are not fully
made up, but they appear to give a population of
15,179. By the Reform census, the population, within
the same bounds, was 13,000. In some neighbouring
parishes, it is understood that there has been an actual
tliminution, in consequence of the great number of per-
sons who have lately emigrated.—Lunerich Reporter.

THE UNITED STATES AND 1

EXA

So much attention has been paid in the City to the
question respecting the northern boundary of the
United States, that the southern boundary seems
scarcely to have awakened the interest it deserves,
which is the more remarkable, as the question con-
cerning the annexation of Texas to the United
States is one of very high commercial importance, and
may ultimately involve even the existence of the protec-
tive American tariff. When the Texans were wil-
ling to annex their territory they met with refusal
from the United States, chiefly, if not entirely,
through northern influence, for the manufacturing
party of the north, knowing their agricultural fel-
low-citizens of the south were opposed to the pro-
tective system, feared an increase of votes from
the south in Congress, which would weeken, if
no; defeat, the high tariff system. The offer gas
therefore rejected, and by this very rejection the ma-
nufacturing interests have found they have placed them-
selves in such a false position, that the tendency of
afraNs is more against the existence of the high tariff
than if Texas had actually been annexed, for while in
the latter ease they would merely have had a section of
their own Legislature against them, which they might
have driven to some compromise, by concessions to the
details of a tariff, they now find a formidable neighbour,
whose territory runs along a line of frontier, and who
is determined to have no tariff at all, as soon as the
state of the revenue will permit. Hence it is not to
be wondered at that the proposed annexation, which
was at first rejected, is now regarded not altogether
unfavourable, and same of the United States Journals
have evidently been in favour: of the scheme, which,
though frustrated, at the only time, perhaps, when it
was really possible to carry it out, has for upwards of
40 years been a project with the statesmen of the
United States.

To show the history of this desire for the annexation
of Texas, it is necessary to go back as far as the year
1800, when Mr. Pinckney and Mr. Munroe, the Pleni-
potentiaries of the United States, acting under the in-
structions of Mr. Madison, then Secretary of State to
Mr. Jefferson, addressed a letter, dated the 28th of Ja-
nuary, to M. Cavallos, the Spanish Secretary of State,
in which they say, " We have the honour to present
your Excellency a paper on this subject, which, we pre-
sume, proves in the most satisfactory manner that the
boundaries of that province (meaning Louisiana), as
established by the treaties referred to, are the River
Perdido to the east, and the Rio Bravo to the west.
The facts and principles which justify this conclu-
sion are so satisfactory to our Government as to sa-
tisfy us that the United States have not a better
right to the Island of New Orleans under the cession
referred t) than to have the whole district of territory
which is above described." Tnis was an effort to ob-
tain Texas, and on the 12th of March, 1818, Mr.
Adams, then Secretary of State, :n a letter to Don
Oois, the Spanish Minister, repels the suggestion of
any doubt that Texas belonged to the United States.
He said :—" You know, Sir, and your own notes furnish
themselves the most decisive evidence, that France,
while she held the colony of Louisiana, never did con•
eider the Mississippi the western boundary of that pro-
vince. She always claimed the territory which you
call Texas, as being within the limits and forming
a part of Louisiana." However, on the 22d of Fe-
bruary, 1819, the United States, to prevent the trans-
fer of the Florida to a foreign Power in the general di-
lapidation of the Spanish monarchy, agreed to recog-
nise by a treaty with Spain the boundary of the Sabine
River, under which Texas became a part of the Re-
public of Mexico.
Although this recognition has taken place there
was a strong feeling in the United States not to
abandon the claim, and the possession of Texas by
Mexico had scarcely been settled, when Mr. Gay, in
the House of Representatives, introduced a resolu-
tion—" That the equivalent proposed to be given
by Spain for that part of Louisiana west of the S thine
was inadequate, and that it would be inexpedient to
make a transfer of it." On the elevation of Mr. Adams
to the Presidency, almost his first act was an attempt
to recover Texas, and on the 26th of March, 1825,
Mr. Clay, then Secretary of State, instructed the
American Minister in Mexico that the boundary
was too near the United States ; that a change was
desirable ; and informed him that the President
wished him to sound the Mexican Government on the
subject, further instructing him to offer 81,000 000
far the whole country to the Rio del Norte. In
1831 a preliminary convention for the purchase of
the country for $5,000,000 was actually concluded,
but this was cancelled before it could be ratified.
President Jackson had previously attempted to ob-
tain it for $4,000,000, and even $5,000,000, by a
negotiation, which failed. In 1832, after the battle of
San Jacinto had compelled the separation of Texas
from Mexico, the Texan Government proposed to join
the Union. This offer, as before stated, was declined,
under the influence of an impression that the
southern portion of the Union would be rendered too
powerful, and it is a singular fact that Mr. :Adams,
who had been anxious to purchase Texas, now headed
the party who refused to accept it gratis.
This one act of rejection stands in singular contrast
with a line of policy pursued unremittingly for upwards
of 40 years to obtain Texas, sometimes by virtue of
alleged right, sometimes by way of purchase, the rise
in the offers of the purchase-money showing the in-
creasing anxiety to obtain the territory. Hence
the rejection had rather the appearance of a pa-
roxysm than of a deliberate act, and the United
States are now beginning to reflect with regret
on the chance of making an acquisition which they
so gratuitously threw away. The leading party in
Texas are strongly against all noticn of annexation,
and regard the previous refusal of their offer as a
fortunate escape. Should Texas adhere to her in-
tention of doing away with customs' dues altogether,
as soon as she can supply her revenues from another
source, it. would probably be for the interest of com-
mercial Europe that an annexation should never take
place, as an independent State with no tariff at all
would be the most formidable check possible against
the demands by a neighbour for a high tariff. A latter
in an American paper, which calls attention to the im-
portance of its annexation, makes the possib lity of war
with England an argument. This is only an illustra-
tion of what may be gathered from the general state of
the question, that the tendency of an annexation party
in Texas (if such there be) would be le3s towards the
maintenance of peaceful relations with European na-
tions than that of the party who advocate the inde-
pendence of the infant republic.—Tinzes.