The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-25 00:00:00

THAMES.-(THIS DAY.)

Michael M'Manaa, a respectable-looking young man,
described as a student, was brought before Mr. Ballan-
tine, charged with stealing 200 sovereigns, the property
of his uncle, Rev. John Ryan, the parish priest of Athea,
in the county of Limerick.
Police-constable Shene, No. 388 K, stated that on the
17th instant, the prisoner came to his house, mad said he
had just arrived from Ireland, and that he had been
lodging at witness's brother's house, and that he did not
like to leave his money there. He then requested wit-
ness to take charge of a small mahogany cash-box, and
left the house. Witness did not see him again until
Sunday last, when ho told witness that he robbed his
uncle in Ireland of a large sum of money. Witness al-
lowed the matter to rest for a few days, in consequence
of his knowing where to find the prisoner. Yesterday
morning witness proceeded to the house of his brother,
and he was informed that a letter had been received
from Mr. Ryan, stating that the prisoner had stolen from
his house the sum of 200 sovereigns. Witness's brother
had given the prisoner the letter, and when witness
reached his house he found the prisoner waiting for him.
He said the witness would find 86 sovereigns in the
cash-box, and the remainder he had left with a cousin in
Ireland. Witness then took him into custody, and
lodged him at the station-house.
Mr. BALLANTINE asked the prisoner what he had to
say in defence of this charge ?—The ,prisoner replied
that he had nothing to say. He stole the money.
Mr. BALLANTINE—I shall remand you for a week, and
in the mean time letters shall be written to Mr. Ryan,
who will probably attend.

WORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
Herman Geiger, stated to be a reduced wine merchant,
and Martha, his wife, who had as infant at her breast,
were charged as follows:—
Mrs. Phillis Barnet, landlady of the White Hart Inn,
Kingsland-road, said they came to her house and took
lodgings for the night, on Saturday se'nnight. They
remained there a few days, and left at request of witness,
who, however, on going into the room they had vacated,
discovered that a pillow, a blanket, a table-knife, and
several other articles were missing. They were subse-
quently discovered and given into the custody of a police-
constable, and the knife was found in their possession, but
no other property belonging to witness. They had a
profusion of trunks and boxes.
Mr. Best, proprietor of the Railway Coffee House,
Shoreditch, said, the prisoners, accompanied by two
children, besides the infant, came to his establishment
in a cab, and engaged an apartment. Their boxes,
which were numerous, were weighty, and their appear-
ance altogether was such as to indicate their having just
arrived by railway. They run up a score, but the stench
which came from their room, and which be had since
found was emitted from their boxes, which contained de-
cayed cabbage leaves and other filth, had rendered the
house intolerable, and he would freely forego the debt
they had contracted if they would take their things
and themselves away from his premises.
Mr. ARNOLD remanded him for a week, but subse-
quently took their own recognizances for their appear•
mice at that time. . _ _

Inspector Gravestock said that 47 duplicates had been
found in their possession, evidently all relating to their
own property. He believed the prisoners to be greatly
distressed.

ELECTION COMMITTEES.
(THIS DAY.)
LANCASTER.

Tho Lancaster Election Committee re-assembled at
the usual hour ; Mr. Deedos in the chair.
Abraham Maunsey, a freeman of Lancaster, proved
that on the day of the election he attended at the com-
mittee-room of Mr. Gregson, where he saw the freemen
plentifully supplied with wine. Mr. Gregson and Mr.
%Vyse were present, and while he remained in the room
the freemen consumed upwards of 50 bottles of wine.
He did not vote on either side.

James Dodson, the witness committed yesterday,
was recalled and examined by the Chairman.
He contradicted a statement he made yesterday
that Mr. Salisbury, the petitioner, held a com-
munication with himself and other witnesses while
thoyAwere waiting at an inn in Palace Yard.

LYME REGIS.
The Lyme Regis Election Committee met again at
the usual hour this morning; Lord Ashley in the chair.
Air. HILL opened the case of bribery which the sitting
Member was prepared to make out against Sir Fizroy
Kelly, the petitioner against his return. He said he
should be able to prove that in the case of one voter Sir
Fitzroy Kelly himself told the voter, that if he would
vote for him he (Sir Fitzroy Kelly) would remember
him after his election, remarking that he was an advo-
cate of the principle that one good turn deserved another.
He should also establish many other cases of bribery
committed on the part of the agents of Sir Fitzroy Kelly,
which he could not pass over without calling the especial
attention of the Committee to it, inasmuch as it disclosed
a novel mode of bribing a voter. It was a case of Mr.
Lund, a butcher, of Lyme Regis, who was bribed to vote
for Sir Fitzroy Kelly by the landlord of the inn Sir
Fitzroy put up at during the election, in a manner which
he had certainly never heard of before. The voter had
presented to him several heads) of fine fat cattle, and
after the gift he made no secret that it was the present
which induced him to vote for Sir Fitzroy Kelly. The
sitting Member felt assured that if he substantiated his
case, the Committee would pass such a condemnatory
resolution as should have the effect of deterring Sir
Fitzroy Kelly from resorting to these corrupt practices
in future.

KINSALE.
The Committee re-assembled at the usual hour this
morning; Mr. Bouverie in the chair.
Mr. Sergeant WRANorasx was occupied the whole of
the morning in replying to the case made out on behalf
of the sitting Member.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY. -By the Priscilla we
have dates from Pernambuco to the 24th of January.
There was some improvement in commercial matters,
and freights were tending upwards. Exchange, 27id.

SOUTRAM?TON, THURSDAY, FED. 23.—The Penin-
sular sad Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship
Iberia, Captain Burney, arrived this morning from
Genoa, Leghorn, Naples, Civita Vecchia, calling at
Gibraltar. She brings fifteen passengers and a good
cargo. The Madrid, Captain Weeks, is expected to-
morrow, and tho liindostan, Capt. Lewes, on the 26th.

LITERATURE.
THE PICTORIAL BOOK OF BALLADS.
1 Vol. Edited by J. S. Moore. Second Series.
Honour to old Bishop Percy ! the conservator and
eulogist of some of the rarest and sweetest of metrical
compositions. If ever a nation was rich in ballad
lore, England is that nation. The melody, the pas-
sion, the tenderness, and the humour of our song
writers have survived the lapse of centuries, the fluc-
tuations of fashion, and the vicissitudes of events.
Even the extraordinary changes which have taken
place in the language have not rendered these ancient
rhymes obsolete. " Fair Rosamond " still excites the
sympathy of all true Britons; the " Spanish Lady's
Love " still is an object of no slight attraction ; and
the " Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode," still possesses
an indescribable and eternal fascination. " King
Cophetua and the Beggar Maid " have had their for-
tunes recounted in the matchless melodies of Alfred
Tennyson, and yet, in spite of the superior elegance
of the living poet, the rude tale, as originally told,
is perused with something beyond mere curiosity.
We are gratified, therefore, to witness this graceful
reprint of our dear favourites, embellished with nume-
rous engravings on wood, illustrated by many valuable
foot-notes, and accompanied by several modern pieces
of versification of singular beauty,—edited moreover
by one so well qualified for the task as Mr. Moore.
We observe that in his prefatory remarks the editor
acknowledges the assistance he has received in his
researches from Mr. J. H. Dixon, from Mr. Tillin-
ham, from Mr. I. 0. Halliwell, and from Mr.
Thomas Wright. At the same time it would be
unjust were we not to commend the care with which
Mr. Moore himself has throughout collected his
materials, and the sagacity with which he has fre-
quently been enabled to explain what was hitherto
dubious, and to illuminate what was hitherto obscure.
One note we regard as so remarkable in many
respects that we transcribe it entire ; it is appended
to " The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," and has
reference to a passage in the "Voyages of Shel-
vocke," which the editor considers as having
afforded the incident upon which Coleridge founded
his wonderful poem. " The passage," says
Mr. Moore, "is found in a work entitled, A
Voyage round the World by Way of the Great
South Sea, performed in the years 1719, 90,
21, 22, in the Speedwell of London, of 24 guns
and 100 men (under his Majesty's Commission to
Cruize on the Spaniards, in the late War with the
Spanish Crown,) till she was cast away on the Island
of Juan Fernandes, in May, 1720; and afterwards
continued iu the Recovery, the Jesus Maria, and
Sacra Familia, &c. By Captain George Shelvocke,
Commander of the Speedwell, Recovery, &c., in this
Expedition. London, 1726.' We had not had the
sight of one fish of any kind since we were come to
the southward of the streights of Le Mair, nor one sea
bird, except a disconsolate black albitross, who accom-
panied us for several days, hovering about us as if he
had lost himself, till Hatley (my second captain)
observing, in one of his melancholy fits, that this bird
was always hovering near us imagined, from his
colour, that it might be some ill omen. That which,
I suppose, induced him thej more to encourage his
superstition, was, the continued series of contrary,
tempestuous winds, which had oppressed us ever since
we had got into this sea. But be that as it would,
'he, after some fruitless attempts, at length shot the
Albitross, not doubting (perhaps) that we should have
a fair wind of it. This hope, however, was not
realised, for the bad weather continued until the

vessel was eventually ' cast away,' as the title-pan
expresses it, on the Island of Juan Fernandes.
While throwing out this hint as to the origin of the
story of the " Ancient Mariner," the editor expresses
his unbounded admiration for the genius displayed
by Coleridge in its composition. The entire volume
of ballads is produced in a manner worthy of the sub-
ject ; it is reading for the chimney corner and for the
greenwood glades—the very title-pagekmblazoned in
gold, green, scarlet, blue, and amber, is symbolical of
the contents, and the appendix itself is pregnant with
interest.

IN THE MATTER OF DR.
HAMPDEN.

CASE FOR THE OPINION OP SIR FITZEOT KELLY,
Da. ADDAMS, Ma. A. J. STEPHENS, AND Ma. BA-
DELEY.—The see of Hereford having lately become
vacant, by the promotion of Dr. Musgrave to the
archiepiscopal see of York, Dr. Hampden was, in
obedience to the Queen's mandate and letters missive,
elected in his room by the Dean and Chapter of
Hereford. At a court, holden by the vicar-general
of the Archbishop of Canterbury, at Bow church,
on the 1 lth day of January last, for the pur-
pose of confirming such election, in answer to the
first citation three clergymen (two of whom hold be-
nefices in the diocese of Hereford) came forward, by
their proctor, to oppose Dr. Hampden's confirmation,
and in due form of law tendered articles of objection
impeaching his orthodoxy. The Vicar-General re-
fused to entertain the objections, or even to suffer the
opposers to appear ; thereupon they applied to the
Queen's Bench for a mandamus to compel the Arch-
bishop or his Vicar-General to hear them.

That Court at first granted a rule nisi; but, on
cause being shown, the judges were equally divided
in opinion, and in consequence the application for the
mandamus fell to the ground.
You are now requested, on the part of the ob-
jectors, to state your opinion whether they can or
ought to take any, and what further steps, either by
a writ of error, appeal, petition to the House of
Lords, or otherwise, with a view, first to establish
their right to urge their objections in opposition to
Dr. Hampden's confirmation ; and, if successful,
then to try the question of hs fitness, in point of
doctrine, to be confirmed and consecrated to the see
of Hereford.

OramoN.—As the Court of Queen's Bench baa
given no judgment in the case, neither declaring what
the law is, nor enabling the objectors to ascertain it,
we cannot suggest any other means by which redress
san be secured.

We are of opinion, that no writ of error lies from
the late proceedings in the Court of Queen's Bench,
that remedy being confined to cases where the writ
of mandamus has issued, and it is for this very reason
that on other occasions, however unimportant (as
Lord Denman admitted in this judgment), where any
of the judges have expressed the slightest doubt, the
Court has always allowed the writ to go, to prevent
a failure of justice; the late statute of 1 William IV.,
c. 21, and 6 and 7 Vic., c. 67, having been passed
expressly for the purpose of giving, by means of that
writ, more easy and effectual relief.
We are also of opinion that no appeal lies in the
present case from the sentence of the Vicar-General
to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the
want of such a power of appeal having not Only been
admitted both by the bench and the bar during the
late argument in the Court of Queen's Bench, but
having also beep expressly declared by Mr. Justice
Patteson, in his judgment.
We think, however, that, under these circum-
stances, it may be desirable for the objectors to pre-
sent a petition to the House of Lords, setting forth
the facts of the case, and praying their Lordships
to take such steps as they may deem expedient
for providing an adequate remedy, and for ascer-
taining what the law on this subject really is. As the
judges of the Queen's Bench are equally divided
in opinion, it is obvious that the law is at present
doubtful, and that the Court is unable to remeve that
doubt ; and it is impossible to deny that the greatest
inconvenience must exist so long as the doubt re-
mains, for not only may the very same difficulty
recur on every future confirmation of, a bishop, but
the validity of Dr. Hampden's episcopal acts and the
exercise of his jurisdiction will be liable to be dis-
puted. Independently of these reasons, it may be
presumed that the House of Lords will be disposed to
entertain such a petition, as involving matters affect-
ing its own privileges, for if Dr. Hampden's election
be not duly confirmed, he has no right to a seat in
Lhat House, that right accruing only upon confirma-
tion, when legally performed.
FITZROY KELLY.
J. ADDAMS.
A. J. STEPHENS.
EDWARD BADELBY.

Temple, Feb. 18.

THE RIOT AT EDINRIJRQH UNIVERSITY. The
trial by the Senatus Academicus of the four students
who were supposed to be ringleaders of the late riots,
was brought to a conclusion on Friday. Two have been
suspended from their studies, or what is called " rusti-
cated," for two years, one for one year, and one for three
months.—Edinburgh Advertiser.
DEATH OF MR. COTTENHAM Mosso—We regret
to stme that this well-known and much-respected gentle-
man died early this morning, after a few days' illness.
He was a partner in the banking firm of Messrs. John
Moss and Co., and was esteemed and respected by all
who knew him.—Liverpool Times of yesterday.