The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1840.

and commercial relations—and to " deal damnation '
round the land," as if it were a tribunal, divinely
commissioned to judge men's hearts and thoughts,
may, or may not, in the case of any Church be in-
consistent with the . Christian Scripture ; but in the
case of the Church of England such pretensions are
inconsistent with the very fact that it is the
Church of England, erected by England, endowed and
supported by England, liable to be controlled and re-
formed
by England, existing for the benefit of England,
and having (as a national institution) no being, place, or
power but what it derives from England. The clerical
ultras of the Quarterly have devised a new Popery ;
which by one fiction they link with a past that never
existed, and by another fiction thrust into the place of
the National Church which it has no right to occupy.
Such a Church as that described in the Quarterly inherits
its alleged spiritual functions from the Church of Rome ;
or it becomes a proved impostor. And such a Church can
have no title whatever to immunities and endowments
which are enjoyed by the Church of England solely in vir-
tue of its nationality. Therewould, however,be little harm
in the concoction of so strange a theory, by a few(misnamed
Protestant) monks in a college. Wby should not the
theology of a Pusey, as well as the mythology of a
Bryant, have its day ? " The earth bath bubbles,"
and they may afford consolation to the earth-worms that
burrow in a learned soil. But such speculators as
Bryant do not persecute. They interfere not with good
neighbourhood. They assume not to condemn wise
men for wicked hearts. They throw up no barriers
against the instruction of the people. They assail not
the political securities of good government. They
aim not at bringing back Egyptian darkness upon the
land. They minister not to the worst and most vio-
lent passions and bigotries. They teach not the mo-
rality of hatred, the worship of persecution, or the
divinity of malevolence. Hence they are compara-
tively innoxious. The Churchman of the Quarterly
does all this. He and his tribe are a nuisance that
must be abated.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
The love of independence and (airplay is not extinct
in the City of London. The Livery, free men in spirit
and in action, will not, even at the eleventh hour, fail in
what is due from their intelligence, and the character
which they have established throughout the empire by
a series of services rendered in difficult and dangerous
times to the cause of freedom. They will not now da-
mage the laurels won by themselves and their fathers in
the good old cause. What are the questions at issue ?
Freedom of discussion—the right of every individual to
, invest his capital according to his own notions of advan-
tage, and the injustice of instituting an inquisitorial sur-
veillance over the mercantile speculations of a candi-
didate for civic office. The Dispatch newspaper con-
tains certain articles objectionable and offensive to
the opinions of many. These articles were con-
demned by Alderman Harmer yesterday on the
hustings —he does net identify himself with the
sentiments contained in them why, then, should
he be responsible for them ? Because it an-
swers the party purpose of a faction to excite the
religious feelings of well-disposed and timid persons for
their own party and intolerant purposes. All inroads
upon public liberty and private rights have commenced
with a show of reason, and in cases which afforded
cause of complaint ; but the precedent having been
established, that the right of discussion could be inter-
fered with, or the liberty of the subject invaded with
impunity, less questionable cases of transgression ar
selected for the purpose of unjust oppreseion. Le
Alderman Harmer be rejeeted for the otijectionabs
articles in the Dispatch, and how is the line of dc
Intimation to be hereafter drawn ? Will not the To-
ries say and insist that the religious opinions *of Dis-
senters disqualify them for civic offices? What chance
would an Unitarian have of passing through the ordeal
of this new Inquisition? Who will undertake to set
bounds to the demon of intolerance, when once let loose
upon the community. We call upon the Livery to
itraittle the monster at once, and with the courage of
intelligent men to do justice to a meritorious public
officer. Alderman Harmer disclaims the discussion
of religious subjects in a political journal, and repu-
diates what is objectionable in the articles quoted against
No religious man can, therefore, entertain any
,cruple to give him his support. It is a mere fiction of
aw to make the proprietor of a newspaper, under such
circumstances, responsible, for articles which probably
he never saw or read. Away, then, with these inge-
iiious devices , away with these false pretences ; away
with all this deceit. The attack is made against liberal
opinions, and the rights of conscience, under the guise
of a regard for Christian principles. Liverymen, be not
the dupes of men who will laugh you to scorn, when
they have succeeded in using you as tools to work out
their own ends. You will repent your inactivity when
it is too late. Strike the blow while it is in your power,
end have courage to be just to a faithful servant. He
who has served the office of Sheriff, of MagiArate, of
A!derman, with credit, is competent to discharge the
duty of L'ird Mayor. In supporting such a person you
run no risk—he is a tried man.
(From the Morning Herald.)
The origin of the fire in the naval arsenal at Ply-
mouth, which has caused the nation such a heavy loss,
is still unexplained. We asked, in the first instance,
whether a shabby ecconomy had anything to do with it ?
We suspected that whether the fire originated in what
is called accident, or was the work of an incendiary, it
could not have gained the head it did before it was dis-
covered, if a vile parsimony had not been busy in that
sort of retrenchment which cuts away the very pro-
tection of property to effect some paltry saving. And
so we find it is. The following testimony has been
borne to the rigid system of saving on which Govern-
ment has acted, and the " benefits' of which the coun-
try will have to pay so dearly for. " A strict inquiry
into the origin of the disaster will, no doubt, be institu-
ted ; but the miserable parsimony dour Liberal Govern—
ment, is, of course, the chief cause. Every ship in dock
used formerly to have a watchman on board at night to
guard against accidents by fire. This coat Is. 6d. per
night for each ship. To effect a saving of this paltry
sum the watchmen were withdrawn, and the ships left
to take care of themselves. The result is the national
calamity we have just sustained." A result which any
rational person would have expected from such a sys-
Now what is the amount of the cost to the na-
:ion of this splendid eighteenpenny economy ? The full
amount is not yet correctly known. We are told " the
full extent of the loss from this disastrous event cannot,
as yet, be ascertained ; but the Talavera 74, is reduced•
to a cinder—the Imogene frigate the same—the Minden,
74, greatly damaged, and will probably be broken v—
an immense quantity of timber (for ship-building) and
deals destroyed—the Adelaide gallery. with all its
valuable and interesting contents, totally consumed
—the docks of the two burnt ships very much da-
maged, and the working tools of several hundred
artificers (which will inflict on them much misery),
forming an aggregate of little less than HALF A MIL-
LION." We leave to ingenious adepts in " Cocker" to
ascertain, with arithmetical exactness the number of
eighteenpennies that have actually been saved by the
Whig economy plan, and the length of time it would
take to make that saving equal the loss which it has
caused to the country. This sort of cheap Govern-
ment is, it must be admitted, a very expensive thing.
Pence are saved while thousands of pounds are most
most wastefuhy squandered. If a Whi:4, Minister were
asked what Edmund Burke meant by the " cheap de-
fence of nations," he would most probably say " it was
the saving of some two or three eighteenpences a night
in the article of watching the ships in our naval arse-
Pals." When asked what the want of watching cost
the country, be would no doubt adopt Lord Palmer-
:ston's approved form of expression, when troublesome
inquiries are addressed to him, and say, " I have no
official information."

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(From the Times.)

The Cabinet Ministers held Councils in Downing-

street on Thursday and last night, and, if we are to
judge from the tenonr of the article in the Morning
Chronicle yesterday, hurling defiance in the teeth of
France, we have nothing left to do but to prepare for
)somediate war. But though the Chronicle ought to be
a uch better informed of the secrets of the Foreign-
ofllce than we can pretend to be, we have no hesita-
ioia in deciaring our conviction that the Cabinet came
o to such desperate determination as that which it so
Inequivocally announces. If her Majesty's Ministers
I tad done so, and at the same time resolved to proclaim
it; to the world by this hasty, blustering, and uncalled-
f )1.• manifesto, Bedlam would be a fitter place for them

o play their antics in . than Downing-street.
k kThere was the necessity for any declaration of
he it determination to stick to the letter of the
reaty of July ? Who accused them of any intention
_ o depart from it! Why, the very paper on whose
irticle they pretend to comment says, in so many words,
t bat they have determined " the execution of the treaty
s laould be carried out to its full extent ;" and upon
t Ills the Palmerston print pours forth a torrent of in-
✓ ective against the press, the Government, and the
p eople of France, and bawls out, " The treaty, the
• Tole treaty, and nothing but the treaty.' We have
a aver ceased to rebuke the intemperance and
in pjuertinence of the Parisian press, but we have
ne i er seen any article more wantonly insolent and
p coking than this. We have already stated our
or pit don, that the Quadruple Alliance will do well to
m .et ,t half way the advances which France has evinced
a .:disposition to make, and if by some mutual con-
e raisons, by the adoption of some fresh lines of de-
n ereation, the Eastern question. can still be settled
r all the five Powers, instead of by four to the
C. ;elusion of the fifth, let no dogged obstinacy, no false
pr ide, above all, no silly fear of being thought afraid,
stt Ind in the way of this desirable consummation. Who
tal ka of England
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mi 3/1.1:r more advantageous to all the parties conc,rry.d.
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common-sense view of the question, equally
' to all the contracting patties,

we have the best reason for believing, which is gene-
rally taken by the calm, sober, peace-loving people of
this country.

PROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
We cannot announce with the easy confidence shown
by the Capitole, the " known results" of " the English
Cabinet Council of Monday." Nevertheless, we an-
ticipate that the collective results of the deliberations
taken, whether in England or elsewhere, will con-
duce to the preservation of the peace of the
world. We feel no doubt of this ; England
has no covert or separate objects for which she
has any desire to disturb the peace of the world ;
her interest is to check inordinate aims at aggrandise-
ment, wherever those aims thwart the development of
pacific resources and intercourse. That other Powers
may have other objects is very intelligible ; the part of
England is that of precaution against the pursuit of such
objects, when attempted at the expense of the common
rights and the common interests of nations. For this
the policy of England is alternately clamoured and
sneered at, as exclusively commercial ; exclusively that
of a shop-keeping nation. Those who use this language
do not appear to be sensible of the compliment they pay
our policy, when they make this description of it. If
they could allege that we pursued the principle of
commercial exclusion—if they could pretend that we
sought to monopolise all the advantages of commercial
communication and intercourse, and exclude all others
from partaking them, they might have some colour for
their invectives against our " egotistical" policy. But
merely to say that we follow none but commercial
interests, when it must be admitted that we ask
no exclusive favours for English commerce, is virtually
to admit that we do not seek to conquer and despoil our
neighbours, that we ask them only for such advantages
as must be voluntary and mutual—that we do not seek
to enlarge our territories and extend our frontiers at
their expense. What is this, but to say that the weak
and the pacific need have no fear from us ; and that,
when the strong abuse us, it is probably because their
intentions are less peaceful ? We see no reason why
we should be ashamed of a shop-keeping policy ; and
we smile at the inconsistency-with which it is sometimes
disdained as pitiful, and at other times denounced as
the most formidable system of invasion.
(From the Courier.)

If Lord Ebrington has at length-made up his mind
to pass over " declared Repealei9," in dispensing the
future favours" of Government, and plucked up

courage enough publicly to announce that determina-
tion, bow does it happen that he has shown no disposition
' to remove from places of honour and trust those who
have openly joined the Repeal agitation ? Has any one
of the Magistrates or Deputy Lieutenants of Counties,
who have enlisted under the banners of Repeal been
removed from the Commission of the Peace ? Let
even-handed justice be dealt out at any hazards. If
non-official Repeaters lose the good will of the Govern-
ment, official ones ought not surely to retain it. If connec-
tion with the Repeal Association constitute disqualifica-
tion for office in all future candidates, afortioli it ought
to constitute a disqualification in persons already in the
enjoyment of office qnd its emoluments—for in the case
of the latter, their unfitness for office is enhanced
by the ingredient of political ingratitude. The evil, we
assure Lord Ebrington, is not to be checked or eradi-
cated by this ambiguous and equivocal mode of treat-
ment. It was not thus Lord Anglesey grappled with it,
and finally succeeded in suppressing it in 1833—but by
means of active and decisive measures, skilfully con-
trived and vigorously executed. The first "great blow"
struck at Repeal was the arrest on a charge of sedition of
1 its prime mover and his priacipal accomplices. Had the
Whigs the courage or the honesty:to have followed up
the blow then struck by the Irish Government, under
the advice of the Irish Crown Lawyers, and to have
brought up for judgment and punishment those con-
victed on their own pleas of "guilty," we should, we
make bold to say, hear nothing now of the renewed
clamour for Repeal. The salutary impression which
wa-aimed punishment leaves after it, would have effec-
tually warned them against a repetition of the offence
for which it had been inflicted, and Lord Ebrington
would have been saved the pain of announcing in 1840
that in future " avowed Repeaters would cease to be
appointed to places of honour or emolument."
(From the Standard.)
The origin of the fire in Plymouth Dock-yard still
remains unknown, so far at least as the public are con-
cerned. Upon the just principle, therefore, that we are
not to " presume wrong," we are bound for the present
to suppose the calamity accidental. The Globe, indeed,
intimates that the Chartists have been the incendiaries.
This we could not bring ourselves to believe upon far
stronger evidence than that suggested by the Melisterial
Journal'. The Chartists have done many foolish, some mad,
and a few wicked things ; but all their worst actions
have had a direction to the redress or vindication of
some real or imaginary grievance, not to the injury of
their country. Mr. O'Connell is the only person who,
upon the suggested approach of a vital struggle, ad%ises
to cripple the defensive power ot the United King-
dom. We are not going to charge him with burning
the Dock-yard, though we think him quite capable
of doing it, if he had half the courage ot •' Jack the
Painter," but we contend that the proofs against him are
infinitively stronger than those surmised against the
Chartists. The master of the Ministers has openly
proclaimed an Irish neutrality, at the least, in
the war upon the Queen's dominions threatened
by France, though he offers his half million of
armed men to put down the Chartists. This proves
two things—first, that
.Mr. O'Connell is the friend of
France ; next, that he is the enemy of the Chartists, and
AS the destruction of our navy can concern only ,a foreign
war, that Mr. O'Connell is more likely to have had a hand
in it than the Englishmen whom he would crush with his
half million. We may remark, by the way, that Mr.
O'Connell's treason has already produced soma effect
in encouraging France to proceed to hostilities, as will
be seen by the following extract from the Dublin
Freeman's .Journal:—
" Mr. O'Connell's remarkable letter to the Right
Rev. Dr. Blake, in which the Hon. and Learned Gen-
tleman alludes to the alliance with Russia, is copied by
all the French papers this morning, and made the text
for some observations by several."

We do not find that the Chartists have afforded
to the enemies of England any encouragement similar
to this.

ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR.

The polling re-commenced yesterday morning at nine
o'clock, and proceeded rather languidly until three o'clock,
when it closed. The crowd outside was considerable,
and the great majority were supporters of Alderman
Harmer, as were the greater number of those within
the Hall, every voter for Harmer being loudly cheered
as he left the Hall. There were numerous placards
exhibited throughout the day, but there was not a single
squib having the least pretension to wit or humour put
firth by either party. The books having been cast up
by the Secretary, the following was exhibited as the
result of the day's poll :
Alderman Harmer......
Alderman Pirie ......... 2,214
Alderman Johnson
The announcement was received with cheers and
hisses the latter of which predominated.
Mr. Alderman HARMER then stood forward to ad-
dress the Livery, and was received with loud cheering.
He said that when he addressed them on Wednesday
he had complained of what he considered an unfair
opposition on the part of his opponents—he had com-
plained of the way in which they had concocted a docu-
cument in secret, and he must protest against
it.—(Cries of " No, no.") W.,s there any
public statement that such elocnment was in existence
until Monday, and had not persons gone round on the
Saturday with this very document for the purpose of
obtaining signatures to it from those who were under
their influence ?—(Loud cheers.) That statement
had been denied. (Cries of " No, no.) Mr.
Meek had denied it, and asked him for the name of any
person who had been applied to, and in reply he had
told Mr. Meek that Mr. Baldwin had induced a gentle-
man to sign it. He had not said surreptitiously, as
had been reported, but " inadvertently," and he repeated
that when that gentleman discovered the nature of
the document which he had inadvertently signed he
struck his name out. Mr. Baldwin had that day in-
serted a letter in the papers—(Here the worthy Al-
derman read several extracts from the letter of Mr.
Baldwin in the papers of to-day). Mr. Baldwin said
that he had been actively engaged in canvassing to obtain
signatures to that documents.—(Cheers.) He had in
fact admitted the whole charge, and he (Alderman
Harmer) charged every man who went round with
that document, to obtain signatures before it was
published to the world, with acting unfairly ! It
contained written extracts from the Dispatch for
three years back, and these extracts ended
with September last before the election of Lord Mayor
for the last year.--(Cheers.) Now, after these articles
had appeared in the Dispatch, he had been returned
by the Livery of London to the Court of Aldermen
for the ,Mayoralty—(Cheers)—and once before that he
had been returned outof his turn—(Continued cheering)—
and they would never have heard of these articles if the
Dispatch had not opposed Mr. Walter.—(Great
cheering.) He did mot attempt to justify the articles
which appeared. He had said before, and he re-
peated it, that he did not consider a newspaper
the proper vehicle for the discussion of religious
subjects.—(Loud cheers.) Ile did not go with
those articles ; he was a true, honest, conscientious
Christian—(Cheers)—but he despised the abuses of
the Church—(Loud cheering)—fts he did every cur-
ruption existing in Corporations.—(lmmense cheering.)
Goo thing was evident, that the citizens of London
ought to elect their own Chief Magistrate, and not a
mere body like the Livery—(Great cheering)—and he
trustal the day was not far distant in which such a mea-
sure would be carried.—(Continued cheering.) Now what
did they think of the religion and morality of his oPPe-
nents ?—(Cheers and hisei.) IF they were mischievous
a. title:: th it appcaredin the Dispatch, what answer
„,hi they wrike for giving them further publicity ?
(Che.ri.) Mr. Walter, when taxed in the House of

Commons with being connected with the Times, denied
it.—(Cheers, and cries of " Shame.") He had not
the manliness that he (Mr. Harmer) bad, to avow
his connection with the newspaper ; and he thought
the Dispatch, with great credit to itself, might
contrast what appeared in its columns with that which
appeared in the Times.—(Great cheering.) He was
not at all desponding ; he did not appear to be so ; and
he could assure them be did not feel so.—(Cheers.)
There was plenty of time to reverse that majority
(pointing to the board on which .the numbers were stated.
Cheers, and cries of " We will")—and if they elected
him, they might depend upon it he would serve them
truly, and perform his duties faithfully.—(Cheers.)
A LIVERYMAN wished to know, if the worthy Alder-
man was elected, whether he would be favourable to
the abolition of the tomfoolery of the Lord Mayor's
show ?—( Laughter.)
Mr. Alderman HARMER said that no person liked
less show and pageantry than himself.
The same LIVERYMAN—I wish to know whether you
would be favourable to the Government bringing in a
Bill for the reformation of the Corporations of the city
of London ?

Mr. Alderman HARMER..--I said so just now.
The Hall then adjourned till this morning at nine
o'clock.

ALDERMAN HARM ER.

On referring to a pamphlet, published 33 years
ago by Mr. Harmer, we find that he showed at
that period, the same independent and humane
spirit that has distinguished him since he became
connected with the City of London. After the con-
viction of Holloway and Haggerty, well-known
names, he had reasonable doubts of their guilt, and
though and the public, were all
againsttJhuemdg,es, he Jury,
wudetermined to make an effort
on their behalf, and drew up a statement which
tended to prove that they were very unlikely men
to commit a crime so abhorrent to human nature as
that ascribed to them. So strong was the preju-
dice against these men, he could get no one at
first to print the pamphlet, and certain parties at-
tempted to frighten him by kindly assuring him
that if he went against the Attorney and Solicitor-
Generals, he would be struck off the Rolls ; but,
disregarding all these obstacles, he published the
defence, remained on the Rolls, and ultimately be-
came the most eminent solicitor in London.

We have great pleasure in giving the conclusion
of the pamphlet, as it is so characteristic of the
kind feeling and independence of the man, whom
the bigots of London would now hunt to death
The public are now in possession of the Documents
I have collected, and of such observations as have oc-
curred. By soma I have been censured for the an.
dertaking—by others threatened. I have been told, to
my face, that prosecution would surely follow any pub.
lication I might send into the world, which had for its
object to show the innocence of the sufferers ; that the
Attorney and Solicitor-Generals should be consulted ;
that, if 1 ventured to publish any thing, I must not ex.
pect to remain upon the Roll of Attorneys. But I was
not to be intimidated or deterred from that which to
me appeared right. If, because I dare give my opinion
openly and dispassionately, together with the grounds
upon which that opinion is formed, I am unfit to re-
main upon the Roll, let me be struck off! I would
rather subsist by daily labour, conscious of not having
violated or neglected a sacred duty, than fill the most
lucrative situation, and basely suppress the truth, in
compliance with magisterial menaces; but I know too
well the liberality, the honoui, and the public virtue,
of those who watch over the purity of the Rolls of At-
torneys, to entertain for a moment the slightest appre-
hension that such menaces can be carried into effect.
" I know not whether similar threats have been- used
to others ; but part of my manuscript was in the hands
of a printer ; the press set, and a proof actually worked
off,, when, together with the manuscript, it was re-
turned,
accompanied by an apology from the printer ;
saying, that, even if no ill consequence resulted, he
should feel uneasy, and therefore declined proceeding.
From this circumstance the publication has been una-
voidably delayed.
" I have now discharged that which I consider an
imperative duty. Whether I am justified in the steps
I have taken ; whether the observations I have offered
are deserving attention, the inferences just; or the con-
clusions maintainable ; or, whether the facts produced
are irrelevant and improbable, the public will deter-
mine. Co their tribunal I submit the whole openly and
unreservedly, yet with the greatest diffidence as to the
execution of the task. Whatever be the result, I shall
be cantata. Conscious that lam prompted by none but
pure ant, disinteresteu motives, and that I have no de-
sire whatever to miarepresent facts, or mislead the public
opinion ; if I err in the judgment I have formed, the
error will, I hope, be deemed to proceed from the head,
and not from the heart.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.

William Bailey was placed at the bar, on the charge
of cruelly beating his wife, and threatening to take her
life, and with having seriously injured his son, a youth
about fifteen years of age.
The prisoner's wife stated that she had been fre-
quently compelled to bring him before the Magistrates.
Yesterday he came home in a state of beastly in-
toxication, and demanded money, which she refused.
He then commenced smashing the few articles of fur-
niture in the room, and when she endeavoured to stop
him he knocked her down. Her son tried to save her,
but the prisoner seized a poker and struck the poor
child a blow which fractured several bones in his hand.
Sir PETER LAURIE read the prisoner a severe lec-
ture, and ordered him to be remanded.

BOW-STREE7.
William Rogerson, a stamper and letter-carrier em-
ployed in the General Post-office, was yesterday
placed at Inspector Pearce, A division,
charged with theitl stebaalr by
stealing several letters containing sums of
money and jewellery to a considerable amount.
Mr. Peacock, solicitor to the Post-office, assisted by
Mr. Peacock, jun., conducted the prosecution, and a
clerk from the office of Mr. Flower, of Hatton-garden,
appeared for the prisoner.
The first case against the prisoner was for stealing a
letter containing 351. I Is., the property of Mr. Lynch,
a barrister.
Mark Lynch being sworn, said, I reside
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at Albion Cottage, Haaapstead.road, and my aunt Eliza-
beth Mackenzie Foulks lives with
me. On the 27th
August she wrote a letter to Mr. Sange, of Bristol,
which she gave to me with seven 51. bank
of England notes, a half sovereign and a
made a memorandum of the number and date of the
notes, and enclosed them with the letter in an enve-
lope, which I addressed, and, after sealing it, I took it
to the Hampstead Post-office, about four o'clock in the
afternoon, where I posted it, having pre-paid it with
2d. and, some time after, having ascertained that it had
not reached its destination, I made a communication of
the circumstance to the Post-office authorities. ' The
notes produced are the same, as is also the envelope,
which I posted on the day in question.
Mr. Shury, principal letter-carrier at the Post-office,
Hampstead, proved that a letter posted at Hampstead
about four o'clock in the afternoon of the 27th August
last, addressed to Bristol, would in the regular course
of business have been forwarded the same day, in the
mail-bag, to the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le-
Grand.

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' Mr. Blott, clerk in the General Post-office, proved
that the letter produced bore the Hampstead post-
stamp of the day in question, and it ought in the regu-
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stamping paid letters, and the letter produced bore
expecting, about the 28th Au-
s. from Miss Foulke
impressiontool,fhwtilsiesbsatenaxdmsp. which he had been using on
nor did the letter produced
his hands.
of Letter-carriers, to 259,
In a bureau in the parlour
General Post-office on the 25th September, where be
Pearce, Inspeetor A division, went to the
ptoroopketrhty,
High-street, Poplar, and
he found. 1801. in sovereigns
ptroisaonlearr,gaeccaommopuannt.ied by Mr. Russell, Inspec-
torand half-sovereigns, together with jewellery and other
There were also several
letters, and among them the one produced, addressed to
" James B. Sanger, Bristol," the seal of which was
broken open.
Mr, Flower's clerk asked if the prisoner did not afford
every facility to have the premises searched?
The witness said that he assisted to make the search,
and showed no displined sayingosition to cause any obstruction.
The prisoner dec
( property anything, and he was
fully committed for trial.
. He was again charged with stealing a letter, contain-
ing a gold lever watch value between 30/. and 401., the
Mr. Tyrrel stated ;hat' he t)osted the gold watch
produced to his niece Miss Tyrrel, of WArwiek•place,
paid Bd.
Worthing, on the 12th September last, at the receiving
house at the corner of Albemarle-street, Piccadilly,
opfoslitarg..eT, y
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03:
the Postmaster
St. James's.
which was inclosed in a small red case, and for which he
Postmaster remarking
that probably it would not reach its destination, he
banded a letter, which he bad written to his niece, to
his servant to post it at Charing-cross, informing her
that the watch would reach her in another packet, on
Monday the 14th ; he received a letter from her inform-
iiif him that his letter had come to hand, but she had
never seen any thing of the watch...which caused him
to communicate with the General Post-office upon the
subject.

Mr. Platt proved that a letter posted at the Aibe-
made-street receiving-house, before five o'clock in the
afternoon of the 12th Sept., and directed to Worthing,

would in the regular course be forwarded the same
evening to the General Post-office, and should have been
despatched from thence at eight o'clock the same even-
ing in the mail bag, to its destination. The prisoner
was on duty that evening in the General Post-office, as
a stamper of paid letters, and the parcel produced might
have passed through his hands.

Inspector Reeve found the watch produced, with the
case, in the bureau, when the prisoner said, " I have
been in the line," meaning, as witness supposed, that he
had been a dealer in jewellery and watches, but he gave
no explanation respecting the other property.
The prisoner was also aommitted on this charge.
He was again charged with stealing a letter, contain-
ing four gold chains, value 291. 45., the property of
Messrs. Catchpole and Williams, silversmiths and jewel•
lers, 120, Regent-street.

Mr. Edwin Charles, assistant to Messrs. Catchpole
and Co., stated that by the direction of his employers
he enclosed, on the 17th of September last, four gold
chains, produced, in a box, which he put into a sheet of
paper, and directed it to Mrs. Fanshawe, of Tilbuster
Lodge, near Godstone, Surrey. He then took the
packet to the receiving-house, Vigo-street, Regent-
street where he delivered it to Mr. Kelly, th re-
ceiver, paying 10d. as postage. In a few days after he
leard that it had never reached its destination.
Mr. Blott havin., repeated his evidence,

Inspector Pearce identified the chains as the same
which he found, with seven letters produced, when he
searched the bureau in the prisoner's parlour.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
He was next charged with stealing a letter containing
15 gold wedding rings, value 51., the property of Mr.
Lias Zilamouth, Finsbury-street, Finsbury square.
Mr. Palma Lias, jun., stated that he wrote a letter on
the 24th September, enclosing the property produced,
which he directed to Mr. Wdlford of Bradbury, and he
gave it to Edward Read, the porter, to post it.
Edward Read recollected having put a latter similar
to that produCed into the General Post-office on the
afternoon of the day in question, which he had received
for that purpose from the last witness, and for which he
paid 4d. as postage.
Alice Chapman, of Marylebone School, New-road,
identified a letter produced, which she wrote on the 24th
September to John Chapman, and in which she en-
closed ]s. It was directed to him at Wimpole, near
Harrington, Cambridgeshire, and she posted it the same
afternoon at the receiving-house in Devonshire-street,
Marylebone, paying the postage of I d. for it.
Mrs. Mary Thompson, 46, Green-street, Bethnal-
green, wrote the letter produced on Thursday 24th
September, enclosing Is. to Paul Thompson, Sea-
bathing Infirmary, Margate, which she posted the same
evening at the Bethnal-green posting-house.
Rebecca Young, of East-street, Mile-end, identified
a letter addressed to Mrs. Nichols, Waterloo-place,
Trowbridge, Wilts, which was written for her on the
24th September, and in which she enclosed the sum of
Is. 6d. ; on the same evening, she posted it, and paid
2d. postage.
Mr. Joseph Hugo, of Hoxton, also identified a letter
addressed to Miss Firmen, of Aspen-green, Manfield,
Suffolk, on the 24th Sept., containing 25., which he
gave to Edward Firmen to take to the Post-offiee.

Edward Firmen recollected receiving the letter pro-
duced from the last witness, which he put into the
Post-office near the church at Hoxton, for which he
paid 2d. as postage.

Inspector Pearce identified the seven letters pro-
duced which he took from the bureau when he took
the prisoner into custody in High-street, Poplar, two
of which were belonging to persons not present.
Mr. Blott gave similar evidence in each case.
Mr. JARDINE inquired how it happened that each of
the letters did not form a separate. and distinct case.
Mr. Peacock replied that they were found in the
same parcel, and had been posted en the same day.
The prisoner made no defence, and he was com-
mitted for trial.

The property found when the officers searched his
house were six gold watches, six silver watches, two
silver watch cases, seven gold chains, sixty wedding
rings, eight gold brooches, six gold lockets, twenty-
one gold watch keys, twelve silver watch keys, three
packages of silver wire, eighteen reels of silver cord,
three dessert spoons, seven salt spoons, two spirit labels,
seventeen gold rings, eight old coins, a box of glass
eyes, and six letters unopened, apparently containing
coins or jewellery,

Mr. Flower's clerk applied to have part of the pro-
perty restored, on the ground that it could not bC the
contents of letters, the prisoner having been in the
jewellery line of business.

Mr. Peacock said there was no evidence to prove
that they were not the proceeds of the several robberies
committed by the prisoner, and he should decline to
part with them, unless ordered by the Magistrate to
do so.

Mr. JARDINE said that such a step would be very
imprudent, under all the circumstances of the case, and
he should make no order about it.

Tie prisoner was then removed from the bar.

WORSHIP-STREET.

IMPOSITIONS OF A " LOAN" SOCIETY.-Yesterday
Mr. BROUGHTON, the sitting Magistrate, had before
him the adjourned complaint of a number of persons
against the managers of what was falsely termed a
" Loan Society."

Mr. Turner, who was the person summoned, appeared
at the first hearing with Mr. Chambers as his Counsel,
but he did not come forward yesterday.
Mr. BROUGHTON strongly expressed his indignation
at the manner in which the poor people had been de-
luded, and at the sort of defence set up. The printed
placards in the windows to attract the public, and the
printed rules, which purported to have been enrolled in
the usual way, after beinc, revised by Mr. Tidd Pratt,
the barrister, all set forth Turner's name conspicuously
as treasurer, which the poor people had no doubt con-
s;dered a guarantee for the safety of their money, and
he was responsible to them for it. The Magistrate,
however, found that considerable doubt existed as to
the extent to which he could interfere in the ma,ter,
and he adjourned the case, with a view of ascertaining
in what way be could compel a restoration of the money
to the poor people, but he intimated to the defendant
Turner that if he had any regard for character he would
in the meantime see that an arrangement was effected
with them.

Yesterday Turner did not appear, nor any one for the
society, but the poor complainants were duly in attend-
ance, and one of them proved that he had just returned
from the office of the Clerk of the Peace, where he
paid 6d. to have the rules searched, and was informed
that no enrolment of the society had taken place.
Another complainant had boen to Mr. Pratt, who knew
nothing of the rules.

Mr: BROUGHTON said the parties then were liable for
conspiracy in' obtaining money under false pretences, and
he referred the complainants to their solicitor, to adopt
the proper means of proceeding against them ; and
after indignantly commenting upon the circumstances
of the case, he expressed a hope that the reporters
present would expose them through the newspapers,
and thus put the public on their guard.
The parties retired with their solicitor.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
LLOYDS.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—.The Quebec of Glasgow, lat.
47, lon 20, ; Adelaide, Leghorn to Cork ; Victory, o
Waterford, 29th ult., by the Edgecumbe, arrived at Mil-
ford; Mable, Llanelly to Quebec, 29th Aug., off Cape
Rosier ; Collidge, 2d ult., of Greenock, for Limerick,
lat. 47, lon. 59 ; Lord Panmure, 3d ult., Dundee to
Quebec, off Cape Ray ; Minerva, Wiliry, Liverpool to
Richcbucto, 9th ult., lat. 47, lon. 39 ; Rolla, of and from
Greenock to Quebec, 20th ult., lat. 48, lon. 28, by the
Amity, arrived at Milford; Union, lat. 42, lon. 12, by the
Mary Bell, arrived at Milford ; Maria and Elizabeth, of
Sunderland, 25th Aug., off the Brandy Potts; Wandering
Shepherd, 4th ult., lat 46, lon. 54 ; Enterprise, from
Lancaster, 17th, lat. 48, lon. 28 ; Acadian, from
Greenock, 20th, lat. 48, lon. 27, .by the Xanthus,
Frost, arrived at Milford. Flamingo, St. Jago de Cuba
to Swansea, Bth ult., lat. 40, lon. 52. by the Elizabeth
England, arrived at Liverpool. John Porter, 19th ult.,
lat. 47, lon. 42, by the Rochdale, arrived at Liverpool.
Euretta, Hull to Quebec, 21st ult., lat. 48, lon. 30, by
the Storm King, arrived at Liverpool. Diadem, New
York to Liverpool, and Brown (B. B.), 17th ult.,
lat. 47, lon. 46; Jane Walker, St. John's, New Bruns-
wick, to Liverpool, crew in a state of mutiny, and con-
fined below two days previous, 20th, lat. 42, lon. 41, by
the Jeannette, Cabby, arrived at Liverpool. Wellington,
St. Jago de Cuba to Savanilla, 3d ult., lat. 40, lon. 60,
had spoken the Mary, Ray, putting back to St. Jago, the
master (Grayson) dead, fore topmast gore, &c., the
vessel reported to be leaky, by the Margaret, arrived at
Liverpool. Great Britain and Zephyr, both from London
to St. John's, New Brunswick, 15th ult., lat. 46, lon.
37, by the Coburg, Ferguson, arrived at Liverpool.

39, ALBEMARLE-STREET, PICCADILLY (OP-
POSITE TUE YORK HOTEL), AND 76, KING WILLIAM-
STREET, BANK OF ENGLAND.—DEAFNESS AND DE-
FECTIVE VISION.—A greater proof of the value of the
Messrs. S. and B. Solomon's Invisible Operative Voice
Conductor and newly-invented Spectacle Lenses, can-
not be adduced, than the circumstance of the many
thousands of individuals who have obtained the greatest
benefit and instant relief, and the constant immense de-
mand there is for them, and the patronage they have and
daily continue to receive. The Messrs. S. and B. Solo-
mons disdain- all connection with persons of the same
name, and the sale of amlier spectacles ; the pernicious
use of amber spectacles being now well known to the
public, and the vendor being aware of it, he has therefore
altered their name, by leaving wilt the word "Amber,'
and calling theta " P.,tent Spectacles."" Dr. Andrew
, (Ire, Esq., M. D., F. R. S., &c., states amber is most
powerfully electrical by friction, very hot, to such an ex-
tent as to explode into fragments. The workmen, too, are
subject to a nervous tremor in their wrists, arms, &c , they
encounter great danger by handling such dreadfully-ex-
cired electrics. Amber is of such a soft and sticky na.
lure, that it is apt to take fire ; and when exposed to
warmth, it swells, bubbles up, and will burn away with
fl :me. This statement is further confirmed by Sir D
Brewster and Pliny, and also by Parks and liearns on
chemistry. The pernicious and destructive use of such a
material for spectacles to imperfect vision may be ascei-
tained at any respectable optician's in London. ,