The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-11 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

THE SPORTING ORACLE AND ALMA.
A'ACK OF RURAL LIFE., FOR 1841.
This Almanack has taken the start of all the
rest, and makes readers begin rather early to look
forward to gloomy November and cold December,
when the others generally make their appearance.
It has been placed under a responsible Editor—
" Vates," a name well known to the sporting
world, and contains a variety of articles
written by men of the same stamp, among others
" Nimrod," " Craven," and Thomas Hood. In
the Calendar are inserted the principal Fairs
throughout England, with, of course, the days
on which the different Races commence and
the chief prizes are run for. In addition to
the usual matter published in such works, it con-
tains also a complete list of the names, with
pedigrees, giren to all horses entered for the
Derby, Oaks, and St. Leger Stakes, and a great
variety of informationon racing matters, furnished by
the Editor. There are ten well-executed illustrations
engraved on steel, from pictures by R. B. Davis, be-
sides a frontispiece, representing the Queen and
Prince Albert on horseback, and a vignette, giving
a striking likeness of a tired fox." We may
add, for the information of our star-gazing readers,
the following announcement among the " Chrono-
logical Notes :"—" There will be a total eclipse of
the moon on the 6th of February, 1841, early in
the morning—twenty minutes past midnight—and
visible in every part of Great Britain and Ireland."
The eclipse will continue for three hours and a half.

MIDDLES 1:,.X SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)

(Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS and a Bench of Ma-
gistrates.)
George Lennox was indicted for stealing a hat of the
value of 35., the property of Henry Breeden.
Henry Breeden stated he was coming up Holywell-
street, about three o'cleck in the morning, in company
with a lady and gentleman, when the prisoner snatched
the hat off his head, and ran away with it. He was
stopped by a constable, near Temple-bar, and the next
day committed from Bow-street police-office.
Mr. PAINE, who appeared for the prisoner, said he
should call witnesses who would prove that the defend-
ant was a highly respectable man. He arrived in
town from Wales, about five weeks ago. On the
morning on which this transaction took place, he mis-
took the prosecutor for a friend of his, and thinking he
was paying very close attention to the lady, whipped off
his hat by way of a joke. He could assure the Jury
there was no felonious intention.
Mr. Sergeant ADAMS said he concurred with the
Learned Counsel, and the prisoner was acquitted.
Emma Coleman, a pretty child, aged eight years, was
indicted for stealing 31b. of bacon.
It appeared by the evidence that the prisoner and an
elder sister went into a grocer's shop, and in buying two
loaves the sister took the bacon off the counter, and laid
it on a chest near the door. The prisoner, in a few mo-
ments after, took it up, and placing it under her pina-
fore,
walked away with it.
The Grand Jury ignored the bill against the elder
criminal.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
Mr. Sergeant ADAMS pronounced a sentence of
transportation for seven years on the prisoner, and then
addressing her father, a very respectable-looking man,
said, his motive in passing such a sentence was to enable
the child to be placed in the Victoria Asylum, CWswick.
It was the first institution that her Majesty, when Prin-
cess Victoria, patronized, and was established for the
reception of such children as the prisoner, where they
received a moral and religious education, and were even-
tually apprenticed to trades.
STEALING PAPERS,—Benjamin Kelly, an intelligent-
looking boy, apparently about ten years of age, was in-
dicted for stealing forty-nine Odd Fellows, on the 24th
August last, the property of Henry Hetherington.
J. Croke, shopman to Mr. Hetherington, proved that
the prisoner came to his master's shop on the afternoon
in question, about four o'clock, and that he served him.
Henry Al'right, another shopman of the prosecutor,
saw the prisoner come into the shop on the afternoon
in question. He had something in a wrapper. He
saw him take some papers off the counter and put them
in his wrapper, and then he put some books on them.
He afterwards saw the other shopman give him some
money, and then the prisoner put his hand up and took
some more papers, and put them in his wrapper. Pri-
soner then left theshop. Witness told the shopman what
he had seen, and Williams went after the prisoner.
F. Willigms is in the prosecutor's service. Went
after the prisoner and overtook him near Waterloo-
bridge. Asked him what he had in his apron ; pri-
soner said " some Odd Fellows," witness said, " Where
did you get them ?" Prisoner said he had purchased
them of Mr. Vickress, and that they were his own.
Witness said, " You must prove that." I brought him
back, with the papers in his wrapper.
G. W. Vickress—ls a dealer in publications. Did
not sell any " Odd Fellows" to the prisoner o tithe
day in question.
The prisoner, in his defence, said that he had pur-
chased the papers at Mr. Vickress's, and had been served
by Mr. Vickress's lad.
The Jury found him guilty.
The father of the prisoner then addressed the Court in
mitigation of punishment. He said that he bad been a
medical man ;that it had been owing principally to his exer-
tions that the cholera had been subdued in London; that
since that time he had been in great distress, and had
been obliged to employ the prisoner and his other chil-
dren in the sale of penny publications to get a livelihood.
Mr. Stock, a surgeon, gave the prisoner a good cha-
racter.
He was sentenced to three months' imprisonment
with hard labour—three weeks of the time to be passed
in solitary confinement. THE GLOVE TRADE OF YEOVIL )—We last
ROBBERY BY A POLIEEMAN.--.4177/1.0.5b0/11, a police-
week published a paragraph to the effect, that the glove
man of the 1' division, was charged with robbing J. trade of Yeovil was active, through the receipt of several
Healy of eighteen shillings, his property, on the 29th extensive orders. We arc assured, however, by a Corre-
of August last. spondent (we regret to say), that such report " was ut-
J. Healy—ls a labourer employed at the Hanwell terly false and unfounded," and that the trade was never
Asylum. He is usually paid his wages on a Friday in such a state of depression as it is at the present mo-
night. On the night in question be was paid eighteen ment —Sherborne Journal.
shillings. It was very late before he got to his lodgings, The report that Mr. Smith who hunted the
and he was locked out. He went to the Green Man, Craven country, has undertaken to hunt the Pvchely, is
in tire Uxbridge-road, to lodge for the night. He had incorrect, as we know that gentleman lately refused an
put his money in his shoe for safety. When there offer of 2,0001. to do it, unless the gentlemen of the hunt
he unlaced his shoe and took out his money. The pri- would also be at the expense of renting the covers, the
soner, a policeman, came in, and witness, who had been amount of which is considerable; and the probability that
drinking, asked him to take his money for safety. Pri- Lord Cardigan may be induced to hunt the country at his
own expense, we hear, makes it improbable that any fur-
soner did so, and told him to come for it at the
station-house in the morning. The next morn- tmhaenr
Tnxetrhtaiotnesoun will be made to establish any other gentle-
ing, when he got up, he went and saw the prisoner CHARD.— VVe. understand that not less thin
and another policeman. He asked prisoner for his thirty applications have been made for a farm in an ad-
money. Prisoner said, " What money i" Witness joining parish ; fifteen of the applicants were most highly
said, the money I gave you last night to keep. The recommended, so that no little difficulty occurred in de-
other policeman asked witness what he meant, collared ciding as to their respective merits.
him, and said he would give him a mouth's imprisonment FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday afternoon,
for being drunk ;he laid hold of him, and dragged him between four and five o'clock, Mr. Foord,
S theithfi extensive
away, and prisoner escaped to a stable. horse-dealer, of Sharp's-alley, Cow-crss, meld, was
S. Tomkins keeps the Green Man. Recollects seeing returning bornefrom Barnet in a gig, when on reaching
the prosecutor give the prisoner the money on the even- the vehicle came in violent collision with a
countrywaggon, and Mr. Ford was thrown out with tre-
ing in question.
The prisoner in his defence said he had n®t been near mendous violence. lie was picked up quite insensibi le;
and conveyed as quickly as possible to his resl en.e, wcl" _
the Green Man on the night in question, and knew
he expired about nine o'clock the same evennik F
Mr. ol d
nothing of the transaction. He called was between thirty and trty years of ag::
Thomas Stringer, one of the horse patrol, who gave 'lle Poor-law Conumsioners have, we under-
him a good character. stand, given directions that visitors shall not be admitted
The prosecutor said, that is the man who laid hold into the schools for the training of pauper children, at
of me. Norwood and elsewhere, until the spring, as various im-
Mr. Sergeant ADAMS—Is that true ? Witness— provements in these establishments are to be carried into
No, Sir. He never saw.me, he could not, for I am a effect during the ensuing season.—Chronicle.
mounted man. I heard him come crying to the station- The Derby Reporter states upon authority that
house in the morning, and ask for his money. Mr. Punsonby, the Member for the borough, has no tnten-
Mr. Sergeant ADAMS—Then you were there at the tion to relinquish the represention of the borough, nor i
time ? Witness—Yes ; I was off duty. ever had.
Mr. Sergeant ADAMS—You were not mounted Our Dover Correspondent sends us the follow-
then ? Witness—No, Sir. in g :--<, Dover, Sept. 9.—A messenger arrived this
Mr. Sergeant ADAMS—Then how came you to say afternoon from Constantinople with despatches for the
that he had never seen you ? Did you drag him ? Foreign-office, and ratificationwiththe_ by the Ottoman
Porte of the treaty by the Four Powers for the settlement
Witness—No, Sir. He accused two other men before
of the Eastern question. It was stated by some of the
he accused the prisoner. passengers by the Government packet from Calais that
Mr. Sergeant ADAMS—What are the names of those
orders had been issued by the French Government for
other men? (Witness hesitated some minutes.)
placing both Calais and
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Prisoner—Champ. tlt is probable that the works of those towns are ordered to
paasirs an ;
indication of the determination Mr. Sergeant ADAMS—You had better hold your u
eretto assume a hostile attitude, it is
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versal cry of the landowners, whenever they have sup-
the men.
accuse them, but only know it from what I beard among
posed their craft to be in danger, that they and .their de-
The Jury found the prisoner guilty.pendants are the best
beenoften exposed in this publication, and
Mr. Sergeant ADAMS in passingcustomers to the manufacturers.
ample evidence wouldco have been given of its absurdity
The fallacy has
was one of the most serious offencessetnhteareColstaldidcothmies
before the Court. He was happy to say it was seldom
bed the. House of
quiry into the linmons
granted a Committee of In-
that a policeman stood in the situation of the prisoner,
the have refused operationto listen
of the Corn-law. What, however,
tionwht
but while the Court would protect the police against all
baring on their monopoly, to, when it was to have a direct
unjust attacks, whenever it was found that they abused
: record by the direction their authority for such nefarious have been conlpelledhtoe
purposes it would
always mark its sense of the offence by passing the inquiries ofthe htheNyir. Flume has giver! to the
always Import Duties Committee.—Ante. Corn-
severest sentence that the law allowed. The sen- law Circular.
trace of the Court tiaS that he should be transported Dr. In L. gerd recentl esented to the Right Rev.
for seven years. He might apply to the Commissioners Dr. Brown, Catholic Bishop of Lancashire, the identical
of Police or the Secretary of State for a mitigation of i ring which was worn by 6celebrated Cardinal Pole.—
vuaishment, and if they saw fit to grant it the Court Gateshead Observer.

FASHIONABLE INTELI:IGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

Edward Kennersley, Esq., and Mrs. Kennersley, at
the Berners Hotel, Berners street, from Huline, Walfield
Congleton; Mrs. Birch, at ditto, from Tunbridge Wells;
the Rev. R. A. Gordon, at ditto, from Wendover ; J.
Loft, Esq„ and Mrs. Loft and family, at ditto, from
Bath ; Sir Frederick and Lady Roe, in Piccadilly; Vis•
count St. Vincent and the Hon. Miss Jervis, at Ellis's

Hotel; Sir Charles and Lady Salisbury, Sir George
Talbot, Bart., and Miss Talbot, at Mivart's Hotel; Lady
MT.tilda Wynyard, Colonel and Lady Louisa King, at the
Pulteney Hotel ; Mr. Heneage, M. P., at ditto ; Lady
Munro, at Farrance's Hotel • Lord Lismore, at ditto;
Lord George Quin, in Berkeley-square ; the Do tiger
Countess Clarendon, in North Audley-street ; Lord and
Lady Jemitna Eliot, in Dover-street.
DEPARTURES.

J. -Lomax, Esq., and Airs. Lomax, from the Borncrs
Hotel, Berners-street, for Clayton Hall, Blackburn; R.
Ramsden, Esq., from ditto ; Mrs. and Miss Mitchell,
from Charles-street, Berkeley-square, for Brighton ; Mar-
quise de Madaillac, from ditto, for ditto ; Dowager Lady
Filmer, for Dover; General Buller, for Ramsgate; H.
Broadwood, Esq., M.P., for the Continent ; the Right
lion. Sir Charles Vaughan, for Ramsgate; Sir William
and Lady Newton, for Paris ; Lord Templetnore, on a
continental tour; Hon. General Upton, for ditto ; Rev.
H. H. Milman and Mrs. 'Ullman, for Walmcr, Kent;
Lady Fitzwygram, for Dover ; Count and Countess de
Conroy and suite, from the Brunwick Hotel, for the Con-
tinent ; Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. White and family, for
St. Leonard's-on. Sea • Sir Thomas Aubrey, Bart., for
Hastings; Sir John and Lady Orde and Miss Scott, for
Sussex , George Rokewode, Esq.. for St. Leonard's;
Colonel Rowles, for Dover; the Hon. Mrs. Fitzroy, for
Brighton ; the Earl of Charlemont, from Grosvenor-
street, for Marino House, near Dublin; Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Brand, for the Hoo, Welwyn, Herts ; Lord
Torrington, from the Hyde Park Hotel, for Yates Court,
near Mercworth, Kent; Lord and Lady Stafford and the
Hon. Miss Jerningham, from Queen Anne-street West,
for Norfolk ; Captain Hamilton, M. P., from the Pulteney
Hotel, for the Earl of Jersey's, Middleton Park ; Lord
and Lady Middleton, from Thomas's Hotel, on a conti-
nental tour; the Right Hon. Sir John Beckett, on a
Itour ; Lord Emlyn, for Cawdor Castle ; Sir Culling
Smith, flirt., for the continent; Lady Webster and family,
for St. Leonard's-on-the-Sea; the Right Hon. William
Dandas, for ditto ; Sir Eardley and Lady Wilmot, for
Hastings; the Earl of Leitrim and Lady Elizabeth Cie-.
ments, for Kildare ; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Beauclerk,
from Farrance's Hotel, for Bishops Court, Surrey ; the
Earl and Countess of Beverley and the Ladies Perry, for
St. Leonard's ; the Hon. rand Rev. Lowther Barrington,
for West Tytherley Rectory ; Lord Rokeby, for the con-
tinent ; Colonel Hughes, for Anglcaca ; Lady Charlotte
and Mrs. Lystcr, from Patterson's Hotel, for Rowton
Castle; Lord Ashbrook, from ditto, for Beaumont; Baron
de Robock and family, from ditto, for Ireland.