The Sun.
London, England, 1833-09-19 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS•

We extract to-day, from a Scotch paper, a
roost interesting and heartrending account of the
loss of the Wemyss Leith packet, by one of the
passengers, who was on board when it was
wrecked, near Braucaster, on Sunday, the .Ist
inst. Our readers will instantly perceive the
graphic force of the description by its influence
upon their feelingq, but its power or its accu-
racy is not the object for which we have quoted
it. We find that eleven persons have lost their
lives within sight and reach of British ground,
in broad daylight, and with a perfect possibility
of being saved by timely precaution. We find
that ten of them were women and children ;
that three cf them were mothers with their
infants under their charge, and two of them were
helpless young emales. We find that the cap-
rain, the mate, the sailors, and all the grown-up
male passengers, except cne whose death was
occasioned by accident, escaped the fury of
the waves. We find that when there Iwas
chance of landing the passengers with safety, an
objection was made by the captain or the mate
to such a prudent proposition. We find that
the ladies and their infants were desired to keep
in their cabin, where they were ultimately
drowned, instead of being taken on deck, where
they would have enjoyed the only chance of
safety ; and we find that after a severe
trial of strength and physical endurance,
all the persons on deck were ultimately saved.
These are facts now placed beyond the reach of
doubt or denial, and how do they affect the
commanding officers aboard the Wemyss, and
the general conduct of vessels in a similar situa-
tion ? It is towards the solution of this inquiry
that the facts stated respecting the Wemyss owe,
in our eyes, their chief importance. We see
every reason to believe that, with more nautical
skill, with more presence of mind, and more
zealous activity in the Captain, these eleven
victims of his hesitation, of his timidity, or his
indifference, might have been saved. We see
every reason to think, that had advantage been
taken of the low water about or before six
o'clock, no person would have perished. We
know that the Captain and the Mate at that
very time advised the ladies to continue in their
berths, and that they obeyed the advice which
caused their destruction. But do we for this
insist on trying the Captain for murder, or in-
dicting the persons on board for a conspiracy
against the lives of these helpless women ? By
no means. The Captain and his Mate have
evidently misconducted themselves, and are in-
capable of further employment in a similar situa-
tion ; but the evil lies in the system of their
selection, or in the maxims laid down for their
conduct. They do not appear to have had a
proper value for human life ; they seemed
to have shown a greater anxiety to preserve
their ship, or to secure their fare, than to.rescue
their passengers. The reason why we press this
matter is, that during the calamities which were
occasioned by the late gales, the officers in com-
mand of transport vessels seemed, in several in-
stances, to regard more the interests of their pro-
prietors than the safety of their passengers. This
was manifested in the management of the Amphi-
trite convict ship, which was wrecked in sight
of Boulogne, and in that of the Leith smack, to
la hose melancholy fate we have just been ad-
verting. It is no justification that in the one
case the Captain lost his life, and that in the
other his safety was endangered : their own
lives may be just as much worth as captains of
ships think them when they foolishly put them
in jeopardy ; but they have no right to trifle with
the fate of their fellow men. In every case they
ought first to secure the lives of theirpassengers,
and then they may try all experiments with their
own, if they feel so inclined. The most rigid
investigation should take place into the conduct
of the Captain and Mate of the Wemyss ; the
most severe punishment ought to be inflicted, if
anything but mere ignorance or weakness can
be established, and the result ought to be an-
nounced as a warning to all future commanders
of stranded vessels. It is with a view to promote
so laudable and useful an object, and with that
view alone, that we again call public attention to
the graphic but unimpassioned statement of the
passenger on board the Ifierrvis.— Times.
A Hamburgh correspondent has sent its, ac-
companied with rather an angry comment, a list
of the pieces of information to be required by
a Swedish authority or inserted in a Swedish
passport. No traveller can be allowed to pass
through Sweden, according to this set of ques-
tions, without declaring his age, his birthplace,
his religion, of what district he is a subject, his
usual place of residence, in what service he is
employed, what month or year he left home,
whither he is going, whence he came, what was
his first place of arrival in Sweden, whether
he came by sea or land, to what place he intends
to proceed, what is his business in Sweden, how
long he intends to remain at Stockholm, how
long in the rest of the kingdom, and who are
his acquaintances, or what is to be his address..
This, it must be allowed, is a tolerably large
body' of queries to be answered, or of infor-
mation to be supplied, by any poor wight who
chooses to visit the ancient Scandinavia. Most
of the class of facts, however, enters into
every passport of the continent, or is required
to be known by every police authority; nay,
in most cases, the police draws your per-
sonal portrait, which you are obliged to carry
along with you during the whole of your stay,
whether it he skilfully or unskilfully executed.
In die case of arriving with a French passport
in France, it is needless to ask your age, your
birthplace, your residence, the date of your de-
parture from home, the time of your landing, the
nature of your profession, and some of the
other questions in the Swedish list, to which
our correspondent objects, because the pass-
port itself declares them. The two or three
remaining questions are of very trifling import-
tance, and, upon proper explanation, will not
be persisted in. How long the traveller intends
to remain in Sweden, or what are his acquaint-
ances in the kingdom, may be easily answered in
that vague and general manner which can neither
put the traveller to inconvenience nor commu-
nicate any secret to the police. The system of
passports on the Continent of Europe is ex-
tremely annoying to British or American travel-
lers, who are unaccustomed to it in their own
country, and may be ao employed as to occasion
real interruptions to the business of all. Yet
every honest man would submit to it in silence,
could it be proved that its alleged advantages
were sufficient to counterbalance its acknow-
But though it has con-
hedged inconvenience.
tirued for centuries, and though we see no symp-
loin of any design to abandon it, we never have
yet heard any strong or plausible arguments in
its favour, except that it employs, at the expense
of foreigners, a number of police clerks, who
might otherwise be thrown upon the world, or upon
their governments. If a traitor or conspirator is
sometimes discovered making the tour of a coun-

try, it is not generally by his passport that he is
detected. If a criminal passes a frontier town,
he may have his passport like any other person ;
and, unless it be for some atrocious offence, he
cannot be delivered up to his own Government.
Yet, for the chance of some contingent advan-
tage 'of this kind, thousands of unsuspected
people are tormented with the delay, the trouble,
and the expense of a useless and costly formality.
We have not heard of any particular inconve-
nience to which travellers are subjected in Swe-
den, though, from the recent establishment of
the dynasty, and the chance of foreign intrigue,
some additional precautions might be justifiable.
The fact is, that the present Sovereign of that
country is a man of tact and of capacity, and is
not likely, either in his domestic or foreign po-
licy, needlessly to provoke dissatisfaction or to
occasion hardships.— Times.
One of the pernicious consequences of the
governing by corruption, which has long been
the disgrace of this country, is the shamelessness
with which the middle classes too often abandon
themselves to courses which, were there a proper
feeling in the public, ought to be held in the
utmost reprobation. We are not so chimerical
in our expectations as to suppose that individuals
will not always seek their own interest in pre-
ference to that of others. But when the prefer-
ence of self passes the limits of morality, it ought
to be visited by public indignation. Public
opinion in this country is far too often mis-
directed—indulgent where it should be severe,
and severe where it should be indulgent. We
have been led to these remarks by the very dis-
graceful attempt lately made to open a door to
sinister influence in the General Dispensary, in
Aldersgate-street. It is quite clear, that without
having jobs in contemplation, no men would have
thought of so altering the regulations, as to allow
subscribers for the occasion to vote at the election
of officers. A correspondent of one of our con-
temporaries, Mr. William Coulson, well observes
on this subject :

" It is true, as you, Sir, have stated, that this law
existed at the time when the distinguished physicians of
this charity (with one exception) were elected ; but it is
also true that, at that time (more than 20 years ago), the
law was practically inoperative. The opening which was
inadvertently made by that law was, perhaps, not perceived,
and certainly not taken advantage of. At subsequent
elections, the opportunity which the rule gave for the
purchase of offices was seen, and ultimately a contest be-
came avowedly a trial of length of purse. The nuisance
to the respectable Governors, and the degrading conse-
quences to the medical men became so striking, that the
law was amended, with the unanimous consent of the
Committee and Governors at large. There is, therefore,
no inconsistency on the part of the senior officers of the
institution, in their opposing themselves to the re-esta-
blishment of a defect in the law, which was not known or
taken advantage of at the time of their election. I need
not observe, Sir, to you, on the difference between the ac-
ceptance of office by men under a dormant rule, and their
continuance in office when a rule is sought to be esta-
blished, the probable evil consequences of which, both to
themselves and the character of the profession, they can-
not be blind to. The importance of the principle for
which the medical men have been contending has been
recently recognised by Parliament, in the case of the Irish
Infirmaries' Act, the first section of which enacts.--' That
no donor or donors of any sum or sums of money to any
of the said infirmaries or hospitals shall be permitted to
rote at any election, upon any vacancy which may here-
after occur for the office of surgeon or physician to such
infirmary or hospital, unless he, she, or they, shall have
respectively paid the subset iption by virtue of which be,
she, or they claim a right to vote at such election, one year
at least before such vacancy shall have occured.'"

The middle classes of this country have been
taught to consider conduct like the above clever,
and a proof of their shrewdness. But we would
humbly suggest that nothing can be more dan-
gerous to society than to look with indulgence
on these deviations from the straight course.
The tendency of allowing donors, during a va-
cancy, to vote at the next election, is of course
to give the office not to merit, but to money ;
and in the language of the lawyers, we must
infer the intention from the tendency. Why
should we take such pains to demonstrate that
there is no such thing as honour, and that every
thing is to be bought and sold ? We rejoice that
the medical gentlemen of the institution have,with
becoming spirit, made head against an innovation
fraught with such pernicious consequences,and we
only trust that public opinion will visit, as it ought,
the majority who rendered it necessary for them to
take such a course. A history of jobbing in this
country might be a very curious and instructive
work. In no country in the world, we believe,
has there ever been such an organized system
of plundering as among ourselves, who choose
to call ourselves the most moral and religious
people in the world. In the scenes of bribery
at Liverpool, gentlemen in carriages, magistrates
even, presented themselves for their share of
what was going. In almost every parish through-
out the country there are boards of tradesmen,
who job into each other's haude, at the expense
of the other inhabitants. If the Aristocrat pur-
chased the right of plundering the people, he
was plundered in turn by a league between
tradesmen and his own servants. We really
are not surprised that, in this general corrup-
tion,juriesshould have some qualms of conscience
about convicting men merely on account of dif-
ferences in the mode of appropriating the pro-
perty of others. In looking into " Defoe's Pa-
rochial Tyranny," it will be found that the
system of parochial jobbing (a genteel word for
robbery) was well understood even in his time.
" In most villages adjacent to London (he says),
where the gentry and tradesmen retire for health
and air, they are sure to be rid to death by
these parish jockeys, who know no mercy ; and
I doubt not, make a good livelihood out of
them. It is shameful to think what taxes are
paid where there are but few poor, except the
churchwardens, Bcc., who grow rich at the
parish charge, and fatten themselves with
what they extort from the parish. Some-
times, indeed, the parishioners grumble, and
are for law, but they are soon quelled ; the
vestry beat them with their own weapons (i. e.)
with their own money, and everybody's busi-
ness becomes nobody's, till at last all pay quietly,
and put their necks tamely into the collar.
* Why are not their
books open to general inspection, that we may
see by whom the money is paid, to whom it is
paid, and whether any is left to be carried on to
another quarter, and lessen the succeeding
charge ? This would be but fair dealing, and I
think reasonable satisfaction to be given us for
our money. But there are too many parish
feasts, to admit of such honest administration ;
the spit is too often saddled, and the bottle goes
too merrily round for the ease of the parishion-
ers. * * To what end is this outside
caution, but to save the money for their own
guts, and feast themselves at the parish charge ?
But nothing is so profitable to these gentlemen
as. parish repairs ; if the church is new beauti-
fied, painted, or whitewashed,they
whip come
;
upon you with a church rate and where two
hundred pounds has been expended, twelve
hun-
dred shall be collected ; for the Churchwardei
will slave hard but his daughter shall bea
thousand pounds the better. Nay, there are
some parishes where Churchwardens, though
they went on as poor as rats, have come out too

rich ever to be poor again." One corruption
leads to another. In England the wheels of
government have been moved by corruption, the
corruption necessarily spread through the com-
munity. But we would fain hope that it may
not be too late to acquire correct notions of
moral conduct. However, we must not flatter
ourselves. The middle classes of Englishmen,
as well as the Aristocracy, have much to un-
learn.—Morning Chronicle.
It would seem that all attempts to induce the
Magistracy, the Commissioners of Police, or the
parochial authorities, to exert themselves to put
an end to those shameless receptacles of iniquity
—the London gaming-houses, have as yet been
useless, and the efforts of the press, with that
view, have hitherto been powerless and inef-
fectual. But we do not yet despair, nor do we
feel at all inclined to partake of the apathy with
which our efforts have been received. We know
that we have with us the better part of public
opinion ; and that, with truth on its side, must
ultimately prevail over official sloth and corrup-
tion ; we say corruption, because it has been
openly stated, and not disavowed, that some of
those whose duty it is to suppress this nuisance
are partakers in the profits of its existence. if
such be, indeed, the case, and if silence may be
implied as giving assent to its truth, then, in-
deed, the worst vices of the old French regime
are fast growing upon us, and our public
functionaries become the panders to their
own vice and dishonour, instead of being
as they ought to be, the honest and active
servants of the State. That this monstrous vice
is fast growing upon us, cannot be doubted, when
it is known that in one parish—that of St. James
—upwards of twenty of these hells are daily or
nightly open ; and when at one small house in
an obscure court (Pickering-place) at the bottom
of St. James's-street, the proprietor is confidently
said to have cleared upwards of 10,0001. as his
share of the plunder since the commencement
of the present year. No one can observe even
the countenances of the persons who enter and
leave this cul de sac without being struck with
their haggard, anxious looks, while the thread-
bare garments of many of them show that it is
the high priest of this temple of iniquity that
pockets the plunder, leaving scarcely a subsist-
ence to the victims of his rapacity. That the
majority of the persons who frequent these and
other similar establishments, have no means
of their own wherewith to indulge in this
hateful and extravagant vice, is clear even
from their very appearance ; nor are suffi-
cient proofs wanting, were there courage or
inclination in the proper quarters to call for them
that great part of the money lost at such places
is the produce of previous frauds and robberies,
obtained from the very persons who are taxed to
pay the very functionaries who so readily wink
at these enormities. Once more, then, we call
upon these latter to do their duty, and to wipe
out this disgrace. It is in vain for them to plead
ignorance of that which every man moving in the
world of the metropolis knows—at least it shall
not be, as it has not been, any fault of ours that
the matter does not reach their ears, in which
we will never cease to ring it, till these breeding-
cages of crime are broken up, and the Govern-
ment itself taught that it is not by quiescently
suffering such scenes of iniquity to be perpe-
trated under its very nose that it can earn for
itself the confidence and esteem of the honest
part of the community.—Morning Herald.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

A case came on before the Lord Mayor, which
proves that we have still amongst the venerable
guardians of the night as " fit and senseless men"
as sat in the chair of constables in the days of
Shakespeare.
A working man named Bonsor, was charged by
an old watchman, of the old ward of Candlewick,
and a Mr. Swinborne was included in the charge.

The watchman, who appeared to be about seventy
years of age, stated that Bonsor attacked him vio.
lently in Cannon-street, as he was crying the hour,
knocked him down and otherwise maltreated him,
on which account he obtained assistance to lug the
man to a place of security. While, however, he
was doing his duty in that way, up came Mr.
Swinborne, and obstructed him in such a manner,
that it was necessary to lock up that gentleman as
well as the working man. Mr. Swinborne was
very obstreperous in the watch-house, but the con-
stable of the night was so indulgent as to let him
go home upon his promise to appear.
Mr. Swinborne described the matter in so differ-
ent a manner, and disclosed the secrets of the watch.
house in such a style, that the Lord Mayor consi-
dered it necessary to summon the constable of the
night before him, and to request the attendance of
the ward authorities at the investigation.
Subsequently Weeks, the aforesaid constable at.
tended ; and Mr. Saunders and others of the Com-
mon Council of the Ward being present, the Lord
MAToR proceeded to the inquiry.
Mr. Swinborne's statement was to the following
effect :—" As he was passing along the street, he
saw a number of watchmen, amongst whom was
Brown, the complainant, dragging Bonsor along,
and beating him as they dragged him. Bonsor was
evidently in a helpless state of drunkenness ; and
witness, apprehensive that some of his limbs would
be broken, called out to the watchmen for mercy's
sake not to ill-treat him. His remonstrance was
altogether unheeded; the watchmen continued to
give him desperate blows, and thought proper to
lock up the witness as well as the drunken man, for
exercising that modicum of humanity. In the con-
stable's seat sat Weeks, in all the dignity of office,
and filled with gin; witness expressed his concern
at seeing an unfortunate drunken man belaboured so
cruelly ; but the constable began to exercise his
" brief authority" in a very short time. " Why,"
said he, " the drunken man must be your brother—
I'm sure he is."—(Laughter.) Witness laughed at this
extraordinary scene. " What do you mock me for,"
said the constable, " don't you laugh at me, or I'm
blessed if I don't lock you up.—(Great laughter.)
I'll go and look if he arn't your brother though,''
and he went into the next room where Bonsor was
lying, with a candle in his hand; on his return he
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to dissipate. " Now," said he, "if you give me
your word that you will appear to-morrow at the
Mansion-house, let you go." 'Witness pro-
mised. " But," said the constable, " will you give
me your oath, as a gentleman, that you will ap-
pear ?" Witness replied in the negative. " Then,"
said the constable, with an oath, " the Compter
shall be your portion."—(Laughter.) Things were
then arranged for a removal to the Compter, but
the worthy constable determined that the witness
should have enough of the drunken man, shoved the
whole weight of the unfortunate fellow upon him.—
(Loud laughter.) It was, however, as sobriety ad-
vanced with the hours, supposed to be the best way
to let the witness depart, which he did, and, no
doubt, it was never expected that he would again
show himself in the Justice-room.

_.. ......____
A gentleman deposed that Mr. Swinborne's ac-

count was accurate. Witness saw the commence-
ment of the row. The little old watchman, if he
fell at all, fell not from a blow from the drunken
man, but from the feebleness of old age. As the
man was drunk, a large collection of the watch
gathered round him.—(A laugh.)
Weeks declared that the charge against him was
false.
Brown (the little watchman) had been a British
seaman, and demanded justice. Bonsor, he de-
clared, knocked him head over heels, and therefore
could not have been drunk, and Mr. Swinborne
followed in the rear, inciting of him for to insault
the watch.—(Laughter.)
The LORD Mitvoß should fine Bonsor for drunk-
enness. The authorities of the Ward should do
with the constable and old watchman as they
pleased.
Mr. Saunders (the Common Councilman) and
his colleagues saw quite enough to direct them in
the course they should pursue, viz.—the removal of
the constable and the ancient " Comprehendor of all
vagrom men." He could account for the want of
judgment in the latter for some time. The fact was,
the old man had formerly a dog, which was ac-
quainted with his angry temper, and used, when his
master would get into a passion, to drag him back by
his coat, or the calf of his leg, from the object of his
vengeance.—(Great laughter.) Unfortunately the
dog had been stolen.

The LORD MAYOR—Why the dog was the better
watchman.—(A laugh.)
The Little Watchman—Not a bit. He knowed
nobody in a row. He'd as soon bite me as any
other gentleman.—(Laughter.)
_ MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

THE LAW OF AFFILIATION.—A gentlemanly-
looking young man of the name of Barford, was
brought before Mr. CHAMBERS by the parish-officers
of St. Giles, for not paying the sum of 171. 10s.,
due to the parish for the maintenance of an ille-
gitimate child, which had become chargeable to
the parish.

Proof having been put in by the parish autho-
rities of the sum due, a solicitor, who attended on
the part of the defendant, said his client had been
confined in the Marshalsea for debt, had come out
under the Insolvent Act, and had returned the claim
made by the parish in his schedule.
Mr. CIIAMBERS—The Insolvent Act will not clear
a person for moneys due to a parish for an illegiti-
mate child.

Solicitor--There was no objection made to the
debt when before the Court.

Mr. CHAMBERS—The Insolvent Court has no
power to purge a man for a debt of this description,
Solicitor—Besides, my client has paid a sum of
money to Mr. Cochran, as a compensatiop for all
future slaims on him.

Cole, the messenger—He may have done so, but
we have no proof, as Cochran decamped to America
with a good deal of the parish moneys.
Mr. CHAMBERS—If that is the case, he has some
document by him to rupport his statement.
Solicitor—He has not, for all his papers were
destroyed when his house was burned down.

Mr: CHAMBERS—He must pay the claim or go to
prison.
Defendant—l compromised for the child with
the parish for 25/.
Mr. CHAMBERS—The payment of any sum of
money will not discharge an order made by the Ma-
gistrates; it can only be taken as a prospective pay-
ment, and when the child has eat that money up,
the parish can come on the father for more.
Mr. FrraPATßict —I recollect the case came
here some time ago, and the defendant then said he
had paid a sum of money, and it was then dismissed.
Cole—He has no proof of having paid the money.
Mr. CHAMBERS—What money you have paid
must be reckoned for at 3s. a week, and unless you
pay the balance, I shall send you to gaol for three
months, and then you will get rid of the order.
Solicitor—My client has been twelve months in
gaol ; perhaps you would allow him to be bailed.
Mr. CHAMBERS—If the money is not paid, he
rands committed.
After some conversation between Cole and the
defendant, it was agreed that the books belonging
to the parish should be searched, to see what money
had been paid, and if any account of the compro-
mise could be discovered.
MA IIY LEB ONE.

A DRUNKEN SEXTON.—Thonzas Elseu, assistant
sexton of Paddington, was charged with having
been drunk.

Insp€ctor Feltham stated that the prisoner fol-
lowed him about last night, hallooing and shouting,
and refused to go home.
Mr. RAWLINSON—WeII, Mr. Sexton, how came
you to get drunk ? Prisoner (bawling)—Why, I
was only talking loud, and I usually talk very strong.
Mr. RAWLINSON-Oh ! it would be much better
if you did not take so much " strong" drink. Pri-
soner—Why, a little gets into my head, as I have a
silver plate in it.
Mr. RAWLINSON—Then I wish you wouldn't in-
dulge the silver plate with so much liquor; you'll
be tumbling some day into the graves you prepare
for others.

After receiving a caution, the sexton was dis-
charged.
Q UEEN- S QUARE.

EXTRAORDINARY BEGGING CASE.—A female, ap-
parently about forty years of age, of elegant man-
ners, and most fashionably dressed in black silk
crape, was charged with begging from door to door
at Knightsbridge.
Mr. GREOORIE asked the defendant her name,
which she at first refused to give; but, on being
told that it would make no difference whether she
did or not, as the evidence would be taken against
her, she requested to have pen, ink, and paper,
and she would write her name. She then wrote
on a piece of paper, which was handed to the Ma-
gistrate, and on it was the name Mrs. Amelia Goa:ley. .
The constable observed the defendant at Knights-
bridge, calling at almost every door. He watched
her for some time, and at last ahe went into the
shop of Mr. Dutton. He followed her in, when she
begged for a penny, which was given to her. She
represented that she was collecting a subscription
for a friend, who had been seized upon for the as-
sessed taxes. He took her into custody, and, on
searching her, he found Is. Bd. in copper in her
pocket, a silver pencil case, and a begging letter.
There were the names of a number of the Nobility
attached to the letter; among the rest were the
Bishop of London, Lord Lichfield, Lady Cavendish,
and several others, with sums to their names from
11. to 201.

Mrs. Goatley in reply, was collecting the money
for a distressed friend who had been seized upon fur
taxes and rent.

The constable when he took the defendant into
custody, asked her who the person was, and where
she lived, when she gave the address of Mrs. Wi!-
son, of Duke's-place, St. James's. He went to the
house, which he found was most splendidly fur-
nished, and the servants were about taking up the
dinner.

Mrs. Goatley said, that the real fact was, that
Mrs. Wilson was her sister; she had been seized
upon, and she was collecting something to assist
her.

The inspector on duty said that previous to Mrs.
Goatley being brought into the office a person
dressed in a superior style of fashion was talking to
her outside, and appeared to be intimately ac-
quainted with her.
Mr. GREGORIE said that the law made no dis-
tinction between the rich and the poor; it was
clearly proved before him that she was committing
an act of vagrancy by begging, and it was his duty
to commit her for fourteen days as a vagrant, and to
be kept to hard labour.
She was then removed to the lock-up cell.
HATTON-GARDEN.
Yesterday, Hierum Holmes, charged with inter-
marrying with Miss Elizabeth Abbott Slee, of No.
6, Clarence-place, Gravesend, his first wife being
now living, was placed at the bar for further exa-
mination, and remanded, in consequence of the ab-
sence of a material witness.

Considerable merriment was excited by the ap-

pearance of a foppish elderly man, who, having seen
an account in the newspapers of the examination of
the prisoner, in which Miss Slee was described as a
beautiful and highly accomplished young lady, came
to the office in hopes of meeting with her, and offer-
ing his hand in marriage, in case the accused was
found guilty of, the offence imputed to him. The
unfortunate lover did not arrive until the case had
been disposed of, and the prosecutrix having left the
office with her solicitor, Mr. Flower, he habtened to
the chambers of that gentleman, and had the morti-
fication of ascertaining that the object of his sudden
attachment was on her road home. lie immediately
mounted his steed and rode off at a furious rate,
having previously expressed a determination to see
the lady, and make known to her the object of his
visit.

,
John Brooknzan, a labourer, residing at No. 4,
Shepperton-street, Islington, was charged under the
following circumstances:—

Mr. John Fox, a gentleman living in Cross-street,
Islington, deposed that on Tuesday evening, he,
with other members of his family, assembled in
Islington chapel, for the purpose of hearing divine
worship, which was conducted with the usual so-
lemnity until the Minister commenced the sermon,
when the defendant, who had just entered the cha-
pel, walked slowly up the aisle, and h tying placed
himself under the chandelier, he jumped up and
pulled it to the ground, at the same time exclaim-
ing, " What the h—l are you about ? You know
nothing of preaching—you know nothing of Jesus
Christ." The screams of the affrighted congrega-
tion were very alarming, as considerable danger was
to be apprehended from the rushing that was made
to the doors. The prisoner was seized by witness,
who led him to the outside of the chapel, and then
assisted in taking him to the station-house.
The pew-opener proved that it would take 30s.
to repair the chandelier.

Mi. LAING asked defendant wha he had to say ?
—He mnde answer, that he had read the Scriptures,
and that the word of God was not preached in
Islington chapel, which he could prove if an oppor-
tunity was allowed-him.

Mr. LAING committed him to prison for one
month, in default of payment for the damage, and
ordered him to find two sureties of 50/. each, for his
appearance to answer the charge at the Sessions.