The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-04 00:00:00

SAINTS AND SINNERS.

On the night of the 17th inst. a cock turkey and
three hen fowls were stolen from the premises of Mr,
William Mayo, farmer, of Redmarley. information
%co; given to Sergeant Holloway the next dey, and he,
witlpraiseworthy alacrity, immediately set about search-
ing the houses of some suspected parties in the neigh-
bourhood. He commenced at the lodgings of a gipsy,
named Edward Priddey, where he found the leg ansl
wing of a fowl (cooked), and a little further, under
a bed, a quantity of fresh plucked feathers tied
up in a cloth, which exactly corresponded with thcsa
of the stolen fowls. A further investigation brought
to light the entrails of a fowl concealed in the garden.
All this looked very suspicious, and Sergeant Hollo-
way took Priddey into custody. He then proceeded
to the domicile of one Andrew Careless, a bright or-.
Dement (as the sequel will prove) of the " Bible Sa,;nts”
where he found Careless and a number of his brethren engaged in religious worship. The Sergeant told CArt..
less his business, and asked permission to steerch the
house. Careless told him he was very Welcome to
do so if be would call again when the sermon was
over, as be did not like his brethren to be dis-
turbed. Now all this appeared very well, but the Ser-
geant was to be deceived by any such tratious hypo-
crisy, and he pressed for au immediate: search, which he
with difficulty obtaina Contser to make, and th-a h
was only on the candition that he would pre.z.ied noise-
lessly, lest the brethren should be disturbed. A bread
troug! first came under the inspection of the o(eer, in
whlch some fresh blood was found. The sight of the
fblood freshened the . scent, and being assured that he
was on the trail of the turkey, he hailed the old man
with, " Hollo! old chap, tvvhat an irreverent address to
a saint!) how do you account for this ?" " Oh,"
said he, " it's been there some time." " Nay,"
rejoined the sergeant, " touch it with your finger,
and I think you'll find it will stain." The old
fox did as he was told, and the blood stained his flesh.
The sergeant next overhauled an adjoining room, and
soon discovered a turkey, plucked and drawn, minus its
head, legs, and wings. " What do you say to this, old
boy ?" said the cruel sergeant. " Why," replied the
rogue
ion of
saint, now transformed into a regular old sinner, " I'm
done, I'm done." " Yes," was the reply, " and I'm
done if I don't soon have the rest of the fowls." The old
fdt en col a
turkey;r e d t h a t
but ho t
washeg ionlyrsy, seeing that the game was
concerned in thse abstrac-
P, at once confessed that he, a son of Careless, and a navi-
gator of the name of Williams, had stolen the fowls, and
brought them to the old man's house. He (Priddey) had
a fowl for his share, and the feathers, &c., found in his
hcuse belonged to it. The active officer then pre-•
seeded to Williams's
but he has not yet beehrea'bleatnod ttoraockehyimouinngto
Ccuarsteoledsys.;

Tho parties were all taken before the Rev. C. Dunne,
at Upton, on Monday cennight, where they made a
fed confession, and were committed to take their trial
at the Sessions, Careless is, we understand, a man of
some property.—Worcestershire Chronicle.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The ideas of Don Quixote on the laws of
chivalry were not more high-flown than are those of Mr.
John Gladstone upon the Corn-laws. We shall en-
deavour to treat some of the topics on which he has
broken his lance, on grounds less exalted certainly,
but more on a level with common sense. In
countries where the prices for the produce of the land
are the highest, the landowners will have the high-
est rent, though they make a mistake in supposing that
the high prices of stinted supply can benefit even their
interest in the same manner as the high prices naturally
produced by wealth and commerce, or that high prices
and rents can be permanently secured by law, where
commerce is declining. Whatever the benefit may be
supposed to the landlord, however (and we believe it
delusive), it is not shared by the farmer as such, any
more than high hackney coach fares are shared by the
drivers of those vehicles who hire them by the day from the
owners. Still less is it shared by the labourers. The
farmer buys his implements as cheap as be can,—and for
wages he never will pay 15s. a week if ha can get labour-
ers for 10s.—these must be regulated by the number of
labourers, and the demand for them. A high price of
corn, therefore, does not benefit the labourer. In proof
whereof, the average price of wheat per quarter has been-
-1834 ... 465. 2d. 1837 ... 553.
1835 ... 395. 4d. 1838 ... 64'. 7d.
1836 ... 48s. 61. 1839 ... 693. 4d.
and wages have not been higher in 1837 to 1839. In
these years the farmers may have had more profits, if
they calculated a lower price for corn ; but if such
higher prices continue, higher rents will be demanded,
and will be paid, and thus the benefit of the higher
prices will be at an end for the farmer. The labourers
are worse off, as having to pay more for bread; out of
the same wages they can buy less manufactured articles.
This must diminish employment in manufactures ;
more labourers must seek employment in agriculture--
wages must fall then, and distress and poor-rates incr,ease.
Our present Corn-laws forbid the ordinary operations
of commerce, as regards grain. When our average prices
are 625. per quarter for wheat, the duty is 245. Sd., and the
expenses about 10s. So that even if wheat can bo bought
on the Continent at 275. 4d., no investment can be made
unless there is almosea certainty that prices will rise in Eng-
land. When there is a certainty that prices must rise to
735. or upwards, and importation be allowed at Is. per
qr., orders are sent all at once; and as the production and
stocks are only in proportion to the demand and consump-
tion of the Continent, prices are forced up there to 50a.,
605., or upwards, a proportionate and suddenly increased
consumption of our manufactures cannot be expected, and
therefore a great part must be paid for in gold and silver,
as has been the case in 1837, 1833, and 1839.
COURIER.—The morning tools of the Government
have simultaneously commenced operations to work out
the grand object of the political scoundrelism, under its
new and last phase; as developed to an astonished llouse
on Friday last. They have commenced, we say, with
bluster and vigour as remarkable as the effect is ludi-
crously dispropertioncd to the labour. Our friend
the Morning Advertiser is largely re-drawing upon
his stock account of long standing about Corn-
laws, the more particular items of vshich account
consist of the " United States, " the " Ger-
man Commercial League," and " Dr; Bowring,"
who invariably, and somewhat disrespectfully, is ever
postponed to the rear among the heavy baggage of the
argunaeat. Withal, however, the Advertiser is tame
and gentle as any sucking dove in its Anti-Corn-law
extacies as compered with its Ministerial competitor of
the Chronicle, which really outherods Herod in the
rabid style of its ravings, mixed up with cries
most frantic as most doleful to the people for
help, or its patrons and paymasters perish. From the
" sublime to the ridiculous" there is. we have been
told, but one step, and never surely was the truism set
off in such bold relief as in the contrast between the fire
and fury breathing through the double-leaded Chronicle
leader, and the callous coolness and contemptuous apathy
of the public mind about Corn-laws, Chronicle or Cabi-
net. It is in vain the luckless and always to be pitied
scribe condemned, bon gre mel gre, to the drudgery, lashes
i‘irreelf, with seeming earnestness, into foam and fervour;
the people are no more duped than fict»s&t was by
the " fine frenzy" into which his actor worked himself
self on the stage. The poor Chronicle may go as mad
as Maianiello, but will not, like him, find a popula-
lion to head es mad as himself. The day is gone
by for getting up a Whig-Radical excitement. Ab-
sorbed in the melodramatic horrors of their own
amelgan ation, these unfortunate Whig composers,
biind to the signs of the times, cannot discern that,
in jibes of their " hard hearts " being moved with the
harrowing representation of Mieisterial agonies, the
audience, that is, the people, are actually converting the
sentimental spectacle into broad pantomime, and merry-
making about the last jump Jim Crow antic of Lord
John, with glee as hearty as ever saluted the Protean
performanccs of Claiwn or '° slippered Pantaloon."
STAN DARD. —The opinion which we professed early
after the first ministerial defeat, and which was then pretty
generally disregarded, appears now to be adopted by all,
the opinion, namely, that Ministers will dissolve the Par-
liament in the course of a few weeks, or perhaps sooner.
We procnd to no great sagacity in the conclu-
sion at which see arrived. We merely followed the pliia
rule of picking to the character and the objects of the
Inca upon whose conduct ace were to form a judg-
ment; we saw that they were men unfettered by
nay scruples of honour or patriotism, and that their
only object was the preservation of place. The
actual state of parties iu the House of Commons,
as proved by the lrt division, and the steady increase
I of Comervetive strength aririeg from the improved
st its of feeling in the country, plainly showed,
however, that place could not he preserved by Its
pre3er. t oce _Tants ni .hout resorting to some des-
perate expedient-_a dissolution of Parliament either
upon the universal sufli age, or ballot questi, in, or the
Corn-laws. To borrow a phrase of Mr. Wakley's well-
timed end powerful speech, " Some agitation—univer-
sal suff ago rgitatien—ballot agitation—or the Corn-
law agitation, must be got up and kept up, and the
country thrown into convulsion from one end to
the ether, merely to enable the Ministerial party
to obtain a political triumph," and to retain
their offiees. This is the solution of the expedient ;
and ev,Ty one of ordinary sagacity must have foreseen that
such an expedient would be resorted to. To most of the
Ministers heir oflizos are their living, and " what is there
that a man will net give in exchange for his Ile?"
What is there that a bad man will not do rather than
sink into extreme poverty from comparative effleeace?
We have early warned the Conservatives that
the day for exertien approaches; we have more recently
exhorted them to be " up and doing ;" a few hints may
be now properly offered upon the mode of action. The
savage provisions and more savage administration of
the sew protection of the cruelties
of the factory system, must be abandoned, As
regards the new Poor-law, the Ministers have (dishonestly
indeed is their act and purpose) preseated an honest al-
ternative. It 'nest be plain to the understanding of the
most simple tha: the Poor-law and the present Corn-law
cannot both stand, because in justice—and the English
eople are a just people—they ought tit't to stand together:

SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GAR:bENS.
This favourite place of Pcblle amusement opened yes-
terday for the sense'.:, and, if we may judge from the
parattons thide to gretify the public, witis every prospect
of success to thrs spirited prapii ton la the course of the
winter and spring great changes have taken place, the
walks have been improved, several of the lionses for the
wild animals have been enlarged tna beautified, and con-
siderable ndditions have been made to the collection
which has long been justly admired. The great object of
attraction this year in addition to the menagerie, is a Co:.
lossat Model of St. Peter's, with a portion of tilt city of
Ourne, constructed in the same thatihir at; thdt of Mount
• Heels, which attragted to tilUch attention last season. It
is certainly a watade:ful representation of the finest tern.
plc in,the World. as large at,-,tpareni.ly as the actual build.
ing, kith an exact rqaesentation in the lA-nov.lnd of the
ancient Roma,;, Bridge over A.?. tint, the I‘,latile+
leum of Airien) he* tailed the Castle of
Sr. Angelo, ahi the principal edifices in that
Tinter. tbV view of the Vatican is also strikingly
correct, and any person who has had the gratii?eation of
seeing these'splendid monuments of Papal grandetir cannel;
fill to recognise every part of them sith Utmost case.
The small lake in the Gardens '"presents the Tiber. The
bridge of St. Angelo CresSes it from the Fortress tuwardi
the Theatre acid the mansion of the great Roman banker,
the Duke Torlonia, The panorama occupies a spate of
five acres, it is constructed in every part from the :host ac-
curate :nodels. and eannet fail to he object of general
attraction, The deceptkin it in every respect complete,
and the represcutitlon altogether gives the most correct
idea of thest venerable and splendid edifices. The work
has been produced entirely from the designs and tinder thts
superintendence of Mr. Denson, the artist, who Constructed,
on the same plan, [Lela and Vesuvius. He has been as-
sisted by Messrs. C. Adam, Tait, and Marshall, and the
works have been firmed under the direction of Mr. .1.
Brindle,-, the mechanist of the establishment. What with
the beautiful verdure of the Gardens, the flowering shrubs
in full blossom, and the varied collection of wild beasts and
of almost every description, perhaps there is no place
br public amusement in London Where- so much rational
enjoyment can be had for so small a charge for admission.

ANDOVER. —Early O WeatieSday morning
this neighbourhood Was
visited by a v•e.Y ierrdle Oieiih or
thunder And lightning
oat the whole day. Th* •; Bather, which had previously
beer, untseatonal4; cold, suddenly changed, and the bk-
whichtantittt at intervals through.
,
tteme te'a'ton Tuesday and Wedno:day. *as quite op-
pressive. This town and its Immediate Vicinity eseaped
any serious consequences of the storm, although the light.
ning at noon day was unusually vivid. The storm raged
with great violence westward of the town. In many
places hailstones at loast six inches in circamfermaca—fell,
whilst the roads were almost impassable, being flooded by
the quantity of rain. The lightning struck a building
upon the farm of Mr. Hull, in the parish of Amport,
called Gollard's Farm, and notwithstandfng the utmost ex-
ertions of the labourers, &c., two barns were consumed,
with several sacks of wheat, some pigs,
The damage reported to be done at T. A. Smith's, Esq.,
new conservatory, at Tidworth, is nearly over. At
Hippenseombe the effects of the heavy rain was very dis-
and other stock:
astrous, the growing crops of corn upon some of the lands
wcre entirely swept away, and the walls of buildings
washed down by the violence of the flood. The Rev. F.
Dyson's garden and conservatory, at Tidworth, were also
seriously damaged by the immense hailstones and pieces of
ire which fell. At Shipton and other villages the derh_
of rain was stated to be greater than from the serious do, xi some time since, and many farming implements were floated
away by the force of the water. ...Hants Chronicle