The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-09 00:00:00

HAM-MERSMITH.

TWO lads named Wm. Hawkins and Jacob Silk, were
charged with stealing. iron from the works of the West
London Railway. _ _

Policeman Ayres, T 215, deposed that about half-past
five o'clock on the previous afternoon, whilst on duty in
the Uxbridge-road, he stopped the two prisoners, who
were in company together, near the West London Rail-
way-bridge, at Shepherd's Bush. The prisoner Hawkins,
was at the time carrying a sack. Witness looked into it
and found two pieces of iron now produced. He then
asked the prisoners where they had got the iron from ;
when they both said, pointing towards the railway, " We
got them from near to the road leading to Kensal-green."
Witness then took them to the station-house.

William Wilson, of No. 2, Pickering-place, Queen's-
row, Bayswater, deposed that he was foreman over the
labourers on the West London Railway. The two pieces
of iron, called connecting-chains, or switches, now: pro-
duced by the police, were the property of the London
and Birmingham Railway Company. The prisoners were
fully committed for trial.

_
THAMES.
Robert Clark, a seaman, was charged with damaging
a cab.

It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner was
paid off on Wednesday. He engaged a cab, and sallied
out on a cruise. He was unable to steer, and having
neither box nor compass, soon capsized the vehicle. He
got off the box, lifted up the cab, and, having taken in
an extra passenger, made all the sail he was able for the
Commercial-road. On arriving at the Cannon-street
gate toll was demanded, but Jack said he paid no further
dues, and drove on. He had not gone far before he ran
foul of a coffee stall, and made a wreck of it. Having
satisfied the owner, he again made all the sail he was
able, and was followed by a motley group, who cheered
him on. After some further proceedings,
Mr. BALLANTINE said, the loss sustained by the cab-
man is of some consequence to him, and you must pay
for the damage.
The cabman estimated the expense of repairing the
injury at 50s.
Mr. BALL tNTINE said, unless the prisoner paid a fine
of 505., he must go to gaol for 21 days.

THE GREY AND PALMERSTON

QUESTION.

We have been favoured with the perusal of a letter,
addressed by a personal friend of Lord Grey to a gentle-
man of this town, which throws some light upon the late
movement among the leaders of the Whigs, and from
which the following is an abstract. The statements may
be implicitly relied upon :
" I wonder how the late unfortunate break-up of Lord
John's staff has affected Liverpool. I don't call it unfor-
tunate as regards Lord John's probable tenure of office,
for I think it likely that the luke-warm support which he
would have had from Peel, would have been withdrawn
after the settlement of the corn-law question, and he
would have found himself too weak to carry on the Go-
vernment, which then would have been seized, with re-
morseless triumph, by the Tories ; but, it is very unfor-
tunate, as regards the future agreement of the Whig
party. Lord Grey is blamed and abused—but, I think,
very unjustly, for, it is not true, as stated, that Lord Pal-
merston would have taken any post to preserve unani-
mity, and that Lord Grey would do nothing that was to
include Lord Palmerston in the Council. The fact
is, that,Lord Palmerston'declared he would have the Fo-
reign-office or none—that Lord Grey offered to relin-
quish that intended for him to Lord Palmerston, and,
if it would smooth matters, to place Lord Palmerston in
the Lords and give him the Leadership there—that he,
Lord Grey, would most willingly follow him and co-
operate in any way whatever; but, that his opinion (and
it is not his opinion only, but a very general one) was,
that such was the feeling, with respect to Lord Palmer-
ston by some foreign powers, with whom it is essential
that we should be on terms of amity, and such the want
of cordiality between „him and the whole corps diplo-
matique in this country—that the chances of being in-
volved in war were too great to warrant his appointment
to the Foreign- office. Lord Palmerston would accept of
no other ; upon which, Lord Grey declined to take the
responsibility of office, on announcing which Lord
John immediately broke up the whole thing. Feeling
the injustice of the accusations brought against Lord
Grey, and depending most implicitly on the statement-of
the proceedings, which I had from himself the day after
the break up, I place the facts in your hands in order
that you may communicate them to the editor of your
leading paper."—Liverpool Mercury of this day.

THE ARMY.
The following are the terms referred to in articles 28, 34,
and 43 of the Army Warrant, the substance of which ap •
peared in our paper a few days since, by which soldiers are
now enabled to obtain free discharges :
Cavalry. Infantry.
..£3O ...... £2O

Under 5 years' actual service
After 5 years' actual service, with one di
tinguishing mark
...
After 7 years' actual service, with one dis
tinguishing mark
After 10 years' actual service, with twco
distinguishing marks; or
After 12 years' actual service, with one
distinguishing mark .
After 12 years actual service, with two
distinguishing marks; or
After years' service, with one dis-
tinguishing 14
inguishing
mark
After 14 years' service, with two dis-'
tinguishing marks; or
After 16 years' service, with one dis-
tinguishing mark........ .........
After 15 years' actual service, ..with'
three distinguishing marks ; or
After 16 years' actual service, with two
distinguishing marks, having possessed
the second at least twelvemonths _

25 ...... 18

~ 15 ...... 10

10

5

Free, with the
. right of registry
for deferred pen-
sion of 4d. a day.
Free, with the
right of registry
for deferred pen-
sion of sixpence
a-day.

UDDEN DEATHS.--Wednesday
.Mr. Bedford held
.wo inquests on persons who had died in a sudden manner.
The first inquest was held at the Golden Lion, Dean-street,
Soho, on the body of Caroline Saunderson, aged 23 years. It
appeared by the evidence that, on Wednesday evening last,
the deceased had been at a Christmas party; she then ap-
peared in her usual health and cheerfulness; the next day
she complained of pain in the chest. She was attended by
Mr. Marshall, a surgeon, but she died on Friday morning.
From a post mortem examination it was found that there had
been an ulcer in the stomach, which bursting, had caused
death. It might have been accelerated by dancing or other
extertion. Verdict—" Died from natural causes." The second
inquest was held at the Plough, Carey-street, on Jonathan
stockain Ingram, aged 51, a licensed waterman at the
Spotted Dog, Strand, who was found on Saturday morning
lying in bed quite dead; a medical gentleman said from an
attack of apoplexy. Verdict accordingly.
A FATHER'S FEELING.--The Thames has been
rising for several days past. We are sure it must be in in-
dignation against Lord Ellenborougles appointment 113 First
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