The Sun.
London, England, 1833-09-10 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

Thomas Coleman was indicted fur stealing ten yards
of silk velvet, value 31., from the loom of Jeremiah Rosse,
his property.
The prosecutor was a silk weaver in Great Powel-street,.
Spitalfields. The prisoner worked in the same shop,
also at velvet. On the morning of the 19th July, witness
went out in the morning, leaving the 10 yards of velvet
in his loom, and the prisoner was then at his work. On
his return in the afternoon, be found the velvet cut from
his loom, the prisoner gone, and the velvet also taken from
his loom. He had not afterwards seen the prisoner till
he was in custody. Witness had reported his loss to the
master for whom he worked, and he was himself given
into custody.
Other witnesses deposed to having seen the prisoner
coming out of the house with a bundle in his hand—to
his having 9.1. 8.1. of money in his pocket when taken
into custody, and his having none in his possession on the
day of the robbery.
The Jury found him Guilty.
Alfred Regy was indicted for stealing eleven sovereigns,
the property of Joseph 1.32‘011, a collector for Whitbreads
the brewers.

Mrs. Laxon stated that the prisoner was an occasional
servant to her. On the 15th of August she sent him to
Hanls-ey's, the banker, with a check for 11/. He never
returned, nor bad she again seen him till he was in custody.
Mt. Lent, from the bank, proved the payment of the
check.

l‘lr. Sergeant AxAuiN directed an acquittal, on the

ground that the indictment was improperly framed. lie
ought to have been charged either with stealing the check,
he being at the time
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rnofsectubteurm. on_ey,

John Patten and Joseph Leyland were found guilty
stealing from the person of Thomas Leant to, a twopenny
postman, a silver watch.
On the 10th of August prosecutor, who had got rather
intozkated, was going through Tabernacle-square in com-
pany with another postman. There was a crowd there,
in which were the two prisoners. They attempted to
pick a qulrrel with the postmen, who were followed by
Vie p:isoners. At the end of the squire one of them
seized and timk out the watch. The other postman, who
was not drunk, seized the prisoners and g.ve them into
the custody of an officer who appeared in sight.
The officer stat,d that he took the prisoners into custody,
and Patten was at once pointed out as the thief in the
other east.

&mud Henry Mare was indicted for stealinz thirty
5/. notes, a quantity of rings, and other jewelry, the
I roperty of Rice Davis.
Mr. Bodkin was for the prosecution in this case, but as
the prisoner was now willing to give up the whole of the
property to the prosecutor, and as the inquiry would ne•.
cessarily be painful to the feelings of many iudividua:s, he
would, with his Lordship's permission, offer no evidence—
the more so as he was very doubtful whether a felonious
intent could be proved.
The property Wl9 then given up, and the prisoner
Acquitted.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

(FROM LLOYD'S.)

DEAL, SEPT. 9.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived from the
raver and sailed the Alary Ann, Hornblow, for India;
British Tar, Hardy, for Quebec; and Alwick, for New
Smith Wales. Remain the homeward-bound ; Chapman,
from Barossa ; Henry Brougham ; and an American line
ship.
PORTSMOUTIf, SEPT. 9.—Wind N.E.

FALMOUTH. SEPT: 8.....W1U0 N., fresh.--Arrived the

Harp gain, Hunter, from Ganaives.
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. S.—Arrived the Grecian, Whitby,
and Claremont, Stevens, from Jamaica; Grace, Tumian,
from Savanilla; Eff,rt, Gibson, from Halifax ; Reform,
Littlejohn, from Teneriffe; and Roselle, Davidson, from
Smyrna. Off port the Lady It Ellice, from Virginia.
Sailed the Frances Ann, Hay, for Bengal.
COWES, SEPT. 9.—Arrived the Royal William steamer,
fawn Quebec and Pictou, sailed the 19th ult.
PENZANCE, SEPT. B.—Arrived the Helen, Davie:,, from
St. Petersburgh, with bowsprit sprung, and logs of boat,
bulwarks, &c.

GRENOCK, SEPT. 7.—Arrived the Jamaica, Hyndman,
'cam Jamaica.

Colo:, SEPT. 7.—Arrived off port the Milan, Whee'-
wrißht, from Nassau.
SUNDERLAND, SEPT. S.—Arrived the Thomas, Potts,
from Quebec; Mariner, Collie, Dov., iclvington, and
Hylton, Brodie, from St. John's. New Brunswick ;
Dodson, from Semaphore • and Helen, Caithness,
from Riga.
DROGHEDA, SEPT., S.—Arrived the Sally, Ditchbirn.
and Op'ielia, Eintnelson, from Quebec; and John and
Thorna., M'lvers, from Drontheim.

GOOLE, SEPT. S.—Arrived the Flora, Meyer, from Keil.

The Thule, Peacock, from say.mills, was wrecked on
the Hogsties the 25th July crew saved.
The Minerva, Brewis, from Newcastle to Southamp-
ton, foundered off Blackeney on Sunday—crew saved.
The Prince of Wales, from Hull, is on shore on Hog-
land.

SIR HEDWORTH WILLIANISON AND
TRIENNIAL PARLIAMENTS.

(From the Tyne Mercury of Sept. 3.)
Sir Hedworth Williatn%on's vote on Mr. Tennyson's
motion in favour of Triennial Parliaments having excited
considerable dissatisfaction in the Northern division of the
county of Durham, the following correspondence hav taken
place on the subject:—
_ _

" Gateshead, Aug. 14, 1633.
"My dear Sir,-1 remold consider it anything rather
than friendly to conceal from you the fact, that your vote
against Mr. Tennyson's motion for recording the opinion
of the first session of the Reformi-d House of Commons in
favour of a Repeal of the Septennial Act, his given great
dissatisfaction to your constituents in this neighbourhood.
" Indeed, there is no more vital principle of Parlia-
mentary Reform than the control which short Parliaments
afford to the represented over the acts of their represen-
tatives, and as history does not furnish a more atrocious
instance of legislative dishonesty than the Septennid Act,
by which a Parliament chosen for three years prolonged
its own existence to seven—it was fully expected that one
of the first steps of the Reformed House would have ben
to skew that it would not avail itself of the enormities of

its predecessors, but restore to the people that satutiry
power of which they had been unconstitutionally deprived.
That act of justice done, the question of the duration it
Parliaments might have been discussed freely and fairly,
for, though all Reformers (except those in name only)
agree that Septennial Parliaments are too long, they are
at the same time, not disposed to insist upo❑ the contra!,
extreme ; neither did Mr. Tennyson's motion, for it left
the question of duration perfectly open—it simply declared
an opinion on which the people of England have been
long agreed, and which they will most strenuously en-
force, that the Septennial Act is a disgrace to the statute
book and ought to be repealed.
" The cry, which I think has been too much raised in
the House of Commons, of certain motions being calculated
to embarrass Ministers, never could be less justly appii, d
than to the present case. The declaration was a simple
one—,hat seven years' Parliaments were too long—a
declaration which every reformer in the Ministry bail
made over• and over again—a principle which every reform
association in county and town promulgated at the general
election as one of the conditions upon which their support
was given—consequently, if embarrassment realty was
created by the motion, we can only suppose that it was
embarrassing to Ministers, and others, to say in Parlia-
ment what they had said out of it—to record on the jour-
nals of the House what they had declared front the dif-
ferent hustings to the people—in fact, that it was embar-
rassing to keep faith with those by whose power they were
brought into office, and by whose support they have been
kept there.
"Neither is it gracious of the Ministerial body to pre-
tend that such men as Mr. Tennyson and Mr. Hume are
only emitting popularity by a consistent advocacy of their:
political principles—for, it may with much more proba-
bility be suspected, that a Ministry are courting place and
power when they are seen so readily to sacrifice those
principles to the pacification of their political adversaries,
as has been the case during the session which is about
close.

" But if the bare propoition of an abstract principle of
parliamentary reform in the House of Commons can pro-
cure popularity for the proposer, is not that a proof that
such abstract principle is tila delib?rate tpinion of the
people, and may it not also he easily conceived how fallen
in public estimation those representitives must 1.):! who, in
he hour of need, hesitated to record in Parliament the
wishes of those who sent them.

" Not heirig aware, at the time I had the pleasure to
see you in London, of the precise nature of Mr. Tc nny—
sou's motion, is the reason I did not then express my
opinion to you ; now, I am unfortunately c,mpelled to sy
that, in that opinion, I am by no means singular.
" I am, my dear Sir,
" Yuur ohAient servant,
" W. H. BROCKETT.
" Sir H. Williamson, Bart., M.P., Whitburn Hall."

" Whithuro 11,11, Aug. 28, 1833.

-
" My dear Sir,—l duly received riur letter of the
14th, and should certa'nly hay. Acknowledged it sooner,
I not at that time, and ever mince, been very un-
well, especially during the list week, when I was so-
rionsly and painfully indisposed. lam now better, I
hope, anti take an early period of convalescence to wine
to you.

" Any vote that I may have given in the Hour of
Commons that causes just dissatisf,ction to my friends
and constituents, would certainly he to me a cause cf
much regret. I am not about to defend the Septennial
Act, as I am by no means wedded to S...ptennial Par-
liaments, but shall give you the reasons for my vote
upon Mr. Tennyson's- motion. At th,, very late period
of the session it was brought forward (late in July), no
practical result could possib:y follow it this year—no re.
enedy or substitute was suggested—neither cuss it accom-
panied or precede) by a good stringent Bribery 8i11,,.Ga,
measure, in my opinion, most highly necessary bo,t,i,irtoL_
the electors and candidates, to protect the lion,st pour 1
1 the former class,
I ; business ciat raquirt4
classes—and most important fuid•c
immediate settlement standing in the order
the reasons for my young he order b alt, wrisr,..
, the ptevious question, not
my (lea r Sir, wry truly your s,
ii etion upon the stiwaves of any
any wish to cast a re , . . . .
.. .
alitiover from rLsponsibility vr
persons, or to save any
to restrain the dishanest of both
embarrassment.
~ HED NORTH WILLIAMSON
.
~ To‘;lV.rlelu.laßicr4ockett, Esq."