The Sun.
London, England, 1833-09-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS•

It Was an object of some surprise with a part
of the public, that in the compte rendu ascribed
to Ministers, called " The Reformed Ministry
and the Reformed Parliament, in which each
departri ent exhibited its claims to public grati-
tude, founded on the recent improvements which
it had introduced, the Noble Postmaster-
General was silent. Everybody was disposed to
do justice to his Grace's admirable private
character, and to his assiduous attention to
official business ; ever3body knew that he was
desirous of doing more than he could actually
accomplish—that he was controlled in his efforts
at amelioration by influences which he could not
immediately resist—and that, if the Post-office
arrangement has become an exception to the
general march of reform, it was not owing to
the Noble Head of the department. The readers
of the pamphlet, therefore, ascribed, no doubt,
the absence of all allusion to the Post-office
to what we should have imagined to be its
true cause—namely, the benevolent modesty
of the Noble Duke in shrinking from personal
praise, where his personal eulogium must
have been a satire on his subalterns, and his
consciousness that great improvements had been
rejected, when demanded by that very public to
whom the appeal of the pamphlet was made.
Some indiscreet subaltern of the Post-office has
seen the defect in the original publication to
which we have adverted, and has thought of

supplying that defect by giving a list of changes
about which the public can feel but little cu-
riosity ; which were, in general, the creation of
circumstances, and not the result of reflection,
and which demanded no sacrifice of time or in-

tPrest, and required no exertion of ingenuity on
the part of the establishment. Like all the other
labours • of the Post-office, this supplementary
statement has been delayed as long as possible,
and forms a proper emblem of those post haste
improvements which it records, by appearing for
the first time in the fifth edition of the Minis-
terial pamphlet ! We can, of course, find no
fault with the announcement so far as it goes—
with the establishment of coaches on so many
new cross roads—with the acceleration of so
many existing mails—with the erection of so
many new twopenny posts—with the engage-
ment of so many additional letter carriers—
with the opening of so many new com-
munications, or the improvement of so many
old ones, in any part of the three kingdoms.
These were all, perhaps, necessary ; but they are
not all that is necessary. They have all, more-

over, been extorted from the establishment by
complaints, and were resisted as long as it was
possible. They, besides, impose no additional
trouble on the Post-office direction, while they
confer additional patronage on its officers. We
need only ask how long, for instance, the Post-
office resisted the employment of steam-boats in
its service between Calais and Dover,—how
long they resisted the regular transmission of
the mails by steam between Dover and Ostend,
—how long they continued to send the mail-
bags by sailing packets to Holland and Ham-
burg after a regular steam-boat communication
had been established,—and how long it is since
they agreed to send letters to Lisbon and the
Mediterranean by steam-carriage ? We rejoice
that these arrangements have at last been made ;
but we owe no more gratitude to the Post-office
establishment, which at length reluctantly sub-
mitted to them, than we owe thanks to the bo-
roughmongers for the speedy accomplishment
of Parliamentary Reform. Among the bene-
ficial innovations for which the Post-office
takes credit from the public in the Ministerial
postscript, we find the establishment of a daily
post between France and England. It certainly
required considerable powers of gravity, and
strength of nerve, to put down this item of
reform or " good works" without something
like an hysteric laugh. We formerly exposed
the w hole mystery of the reluctant negotiation of
which this is the only fruit. We showed that
the arrangement was, in a manner, forced upon
the Post-office in England by shame at the
superior liberality of that of our neighbours—
that the directors of the French Post-office, who
came here, found the greatest difficulties in
accomplishing this single object—and that, with
regard to four or five other unequivocal im-
provements, which they proposed and pressed,
they could obtain no favourable consideration,
far less any willing acquiescence. They pro-
posed that franking of foreign letters between
the two countries, should be optional, and that
the two Post-offices should reciprocally ac-
count to each other for the postage. This
would have occasioned trouble, and, there-
fore, was resisted. They proposed, that the
Journals of the two countries should be carried
free of expense, or for the same expense, so far
as their equality in number corresponded. This
would have destroyed an English post-office
monopoly, and was, of course, rejected. In short,
the French Commissioners retuned home with
feelings of disgust at the obstacles which they
had met, and the treatment which they had
received, having undertaken their mission with
the prospect of benefiting both countries, and in
the erroneous conviction that the sentiments of
the English officials would accord with their
own. We had subsequently occasion to cele-
brate the exploits of the Post-office establishment,
in alluding to the petitions presented against its
clerks by the newsvenders, and we do not observe,
in the supplement to the Ministerial pamphlet,
that the monopoly complained of has yet been
abandoned. We therefore presume to think
that on all these grounds the said " fifth edition
would have been better without its Post-office
k‘ appendix."—Tintes.
The Standard continues to profess alarm at the
searching inquiry into the existing state of the
Corporations of the United Kingdom. We
shall not depart from the propriety of the con-
duct of this Journal by condescending to notice
oncourteous or unusual observations on the
composition of our articles, however unfounded,
as in the instance of the Standard last night.
Our contemporary may not, perhaps, be aware
that be is himself somewhat open to ridicule. But
our object is with the subject matter of a contro-
versy. We fully admit that Corporations have
been valuable bulwarks against Monarchical
tyranny; but it was in the days of their more
primitive constitution, before the elective prin-
ciple had been usurped by local oligarchies ;
and we are now desirous of seeing their eman.
eipation from party an. d aristocratic usurpations
for a new infusion of popular power will termi-
nate abuses, the existence and wrong of which
no impartial or liberal person can deny. We
conclude that the existence of abuses is not dis-
believed or disputed, but that tv,- are now to
understand that the evils of the present Cw-
porate system ought to be perpetuated as a
barrier " against democratieal tyranny in the
nineteenth century," and as a remedy for the
" mad impolicy of habituating the unthink-

ing vulgar of the country to the work of de-
struction and change." If, by the " unthinking
vulgar" the middle classes excluded from all mu-
nicipal power are meant, we should think such
language might be more appropriately applied
to the self-elected Corporators, who vulgarly
and ignorantly fancy that they can maintain
their political monopoly. We shall patiently
wait the result of this important inquiry, when
the country will doubtless learn the real merits
and defects of these local institutions. The
parchment votes of the Scotch county franchise,
and the costly borough-election possessions of the
aristocracy, might be more justly designated as
an attack upon property. But it is a strange
perversion of reasoning to excite this prejudice
against the inquiries of the Corporation Com-
mission. What inroad or dispossession of
property, for instance, has resulted from the
recent reform of the Scotch Burgh contstitu-
tions? The only " revolution" consists in the
number and character of the administrators of
the public revenues, and in the substitution of
popularly elected for self-elected magistrates
and municipal officers. These affected alarms
only further prove the necessity and value of
inquiry ; and, as in the instance of Leicester,
stated by our correspondent, they create a just
prejudice against corporators. If these autho-
rities are thus blindly and doggedly opposed to the
admission of light on their past deeds, what
value can they put on their public reputation,
and how can they be astonished at the public
suspicion and disgust at their secret proceedings?
We suspect that all wise Corporators and Town
Councils of Scotch Burghs will not thank
their partisans for this present mode of defence
of self-election and municipal monopoly.—
Morning Chronicle.
Though it is impossible to say anything new
respecting the investigation which the different
Corporations of the kingdom are at present
undergoing, there is a fair excuse for repeating
what we have said before, so long as our politi-
cal opponents avail themselves of the same pro-
cess to favour their peculiar views of the subject.
The last word is of some value in every dis-
pute ; it may operate rather mechanically than
intellectually, but still it is of some value. We
do not promise to contend for it with those who
may have more constitutional ardour or more
urgent motives than ourselves, but we are not,
therefore, less cognizant of the fact, that even a
bad cause is not wholly exempted from the re-
ward of perseverance. All the Conservative
Journals have joined in raising the cry of " Stop
thief !" against the Commission. This is rather
premature, seeing that no property has been
touched as yet, and that none can be touched
without inquiry—nor, therefore, it may be pre-
sumed, without sufficient reason, if it be touched
at all. The only question that can be said to
be fairly open as yet with respect to those in-
vestigations is the question of the right of
inquiry. Now the persons who contend most
vehemently for the purity of corporate bodies
are the very persons who ought to be the fore-
most in asserting this right, and in demanding the
application of it to such bodies, as the best an-
swer that can be given to false and malignant
charges. They cannot deny that Corporations
have fallen into bad odour with the public ; that
they have been accused of appropriating funds
to other purposes than those for which they were
originally granted ; that they have been stigma-
tised as corrupt and dishonest stewards, who
ought to be made accountable for the wrong
they have done. Those charges are either true
or false. In either case they ought to be in-
vestigated, and the more searching the investi-
gation the better for the ends of justice, which
cannot be satisfied with any thing short of the
most full and complete inquiry. It is well
known that Courts of Law are tied up by tech-
nicalities, which frequently operate even in the
case of individuals against the doing of substan-
tial justice. How much more likely are such
tribunals to fail against privileged bodies, wrapped
up in all the mysteries and trickeries which a
long course of misgovernment may have
moulded into something like authority and
prescription. You may meet the wolf in the
thicket, but if you go into his den you should
go well armed, not only because of the fa-
mily you may meet inside, but because of the
dark turnings which they understand and you are
ignorant of. It is to the power of the Commis-
sion that the Conservatives object, for as yet
there has been no abuse. The justification of
that power is, that nothing short of it would be
adequate to the undertaking. If Corporations
be the strongholds of corruption, it is only a
strong arm that can deal with them. But the
strength of the Commission is not an irrespon-
sible strength ; it is not a blind and headlong
power which, once put in motion, cannot be
modified, controlled, or retracted. Like other
powers, it may do wrong ; but what we say is,
let us see the wrong ; it is unfair to argue from
presumption. Besides, it should be borne in
mind that the Commission cannot of itself de-
termine finally on the fate of any Corporation.
Those who are so much alarmed for the rights
of property, will do well to reflect upon this se-
curity, that the Ministers and the Parliament,
and the community at large—in short, that all
who have property will be witnesses of those
proceedings, and that public opinion will exer-
cise an important influence over the result.
Surely the alarmists do not mean to arrogate all
the property of the country to themselves, toge-
ther with all the reason and all the virtue.—
Morning Herald.
Lord Palmerston has made up his mind upon.
Portuguese affairs, and is now pursuing the
policy which lie has fixed upon with all sails set.
That policy, in a few words, amounts to this,
that England having acknowledged Donna
Maria, the eldest daughter of Don Pedro, a son
being still living, as Queen of Portugal, it is in-
cumbent on the Portuguese people to accept her
as such, as well as to consider her as their right-
Jul and lawful sovereign, otherwise they will
incur his Lordship's displeasure, and render
themselves liable to all the penalties which, as
an M.P. and Minister for Foreign Affairs, he
can cause to be inflicted upon them. The
Portuguese contest has thus assumed a new
character. It is no longer brother against
brother, but Lord Palmerston versus the Por-
tuguese people, and a few weeks will probably
bring us to a decision. But should Lord Palmer-
ston be worsted—should his deep and extensive
u
combinations fail—what will be our position, and
what will other nations say of our magnanimity
and jstiee
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sion of another kingdom, of actually made apparent that we have arrogate
appointing
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the Sovereign of Portugal, and giving to the
object of our choice the advantages of all the
treaties made with the Portuguese nation within
the last 350 years ? The volume of the true
and national history of Portugal, since the death
of King John VI., does not lie open to every
eye, because it was never written,and the utmost
care has been taken that it should not, in a
correct form at least, appear in print ; but when-
ever it does Lord Palmerston's name and the
agencies of the wily, we might almost add
visionary and aspiring, Palmella, will form lead-
ing features in its pages. Should it ever pass
through the press it will not there appear that it
has been the policy of the Grey Cabinet to
preserve peace and amity with all nations.
When it is asserted that it has. been the
wish of the King's advisers to respect the
rights and independence of all Sovereign
States, the instances of Portugal and Spain
‘N ill rise up in judgment against them. If a
word is said on the impartiality and fairness with
which the British Government have acted,
towards the belligerents in the Portuguese
struggle, proofs innumerable will be adduced to
show the contrary. Whenever the moment of
reflection comes, and come it must, the conduct
of our Government towards Portugal, we repeat,
will be found marked with acts of the most cry-
ing injustice and ingratitude. Fortunately, they
are the acts of our rulers, and not of the nation;
but when our oldest and best allies have by the
present war been deprived of nearly halt' a cen-
tury's growth, the consequences will inevitably
affect us to a large extent. This infatuation is
unaccountable ; and, when matters are known
with more precision, the strongest detestation
will be excited at that species of secret interfe-
rence in Portuguese affairs, as well as the great-
est contempt for a Government that can so far
mistake or betray the real and substantial inte-
rests of the country as to lend itself to the wild
and ambitious projects of such a weathercock as
Don Pedro. Lord Palmerston must have for-
gotten the history of this singular man in
Brazil. We beg him to refresh his memory,
and merely to look at Don Pedro's mani-
festo of August 1, 1822, and then say
whether he or his issue can or ought to reign
in Portugal. This is the paper that first
brought Don Pedro into public notice. After
enumerating the irregularities and misconduct of
the Lisbon Cortes, the same Cortes which a
party in the capital, but not in the provinces,
now wish to re-establish—after declaiming against
the Constitutional leaders, who had ruined
Portugal, and were driving Brazil to the brink
of a precipice, some of them the very men who
are now at the head of his councils—in a word,
after calling down upon these same Constitu-
tionalists the most bitter imprecations, as being
the authors of all the calamities which at that
period befel the two countries, Don Pedro de-
clared the two kingdoms severed and separated
for ever, and, choosing Brazil as his adopted
land, and abandoning Portugal, he told the
Brazilians " that he was their countryman and
defender, and that the honour and prosperity
of Brazil were to be the only reward of
their united labours !" " Proceeding in this
path," adds he, " you will always find me
at your head, and in the post of danger.
Be convinced (said he emphatically) that
my happiness consists- in your happiness—
to me it is a glory to rule over a gallant
and free people like yourselves." On the very
same day he declared war against Portu-
gal, and on the 12th of the ensuing month of
October he was proclaimed Emperor of Brazil
by the title of Don Pedro 1., and his successors,
when, as the Act recites, his daughter Donna
Maria was with him during the ceremony, and
then, and until the birth of her brother on the
2d of December, 1825, she was always consi-
dered by the Brazilians as the Heiress Apparent
of their throne. Don Pedro reigned in Brazil
till April 12, 1831, that is, nearly ten years—in
Brazil, a sovereign and independent kingdom,
and consequently foreign to Portugal—and after
being thence expelled, and for the best reasons,
is it consistent with the honour and justice of
Great Britain to force this same ex-Brazilian
Ruler, or his issue, upon the Portuguese, in op-
position to their laws, their interests, and their
avowed sentiments? We cannot plead ignorance
of these facts, for they are too recent to be for-
gotten, a circumstance which materially aggra-
vates the insidious conduct of the British
Government against Portugal. Lord Palmerston,
however, says that Don Pedro's issue shall sit
upon the throne, whilst he himself is arranging
matters, with the aid of his old friends the
Constitutionalists of 1820, to obtain the Crown
for his own portion. The Portuguese people
declare that neither shall have it,and the question,
,t may be expected, will soon be brought to issue.
—Morning Post.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

DEPREDATIONS IN CHURCHES, CHAPELS, AND
MEETING-HOUSES.—Yesterday the Justice-room was
crowded by churchwardens and other parish officers,
anxious to hear the charges against Charles Mason,
who has been in the habit of taking his round of the
places of worship in London and its environs, and
plundering them of Bibles and Prayer-books, the
boxes containing which he opened with a chisel at
the same time that he appeared to be joining in the
service with the most pious concern. He had been
apprehended by an officer in consequence of an inti-
mation from a parishioner in Aldersgate church,
that he was robbing and praying at the same time,
arid the plunder and the chisel were found about his
person. Sapwell, the beadle and assistant overseer
of St. Peter's, Cornhill, stated, that having seen a
paragraph in the newspapers relative to the rob-
bery committed by the prisoner, arid knowing that
a great number of churches and other places of
worship had been robbed of books, he deter-
mined, for the sake of the beadles, who might, Irr
some instances, be suspected, to make all neces-
sary inquiry,
and he certainly succeeded in find-
ing out innumerable cases of robbery committed
under the cloak of religion, which the prisoner
could put on whenever he pleased, in the most dex-
terous manner. Witness dogged a woman who had
been talking to the prisoner at the Compter, to an
obscure house in Spitaltields, to which she went in
a very roundabout way. Upon entering, he saw
the walls covered with pious prints, and upon re-
moving one of them, he found on the pasteboard
to which it had been stuck, the name of the very
parish of which he was beadle. On a closer exa-
mination lie found a small book, containing a list of
churches and chapels, in number between seventy
and eighty. Many of the names of places of wor-
ship are ticked off, and it was evident from the ac-
count, which was kept with the regularity of a
ledger, that those places had been visited and plun-
dered by the prisoner. Appended to the items in
the list, were the worde, " B ble completely new—
for self;" " Prayer-books, three, morocco bound,
a little used, may go to the public ;" "
good ; Two Prayer-books, new, well gilt—for the
public," &c. &c. From this list it appeared that
upwards of forty places of worship had been suc-
cessfully visited. The visit to Aldersgate church
was not ticked off, and probably, with the excel.)•
tion of the church in which the gaol chaplain °lli-

ciates, that would be the last church in which he
would have an opportunity of exercising his trade:
The prisoner said he had nothing to do with the
ticking-off.
Sapwell said that the woman had told him she
was the prisoner's wife ; and it was evident from
what the neighbours said that the wretched woman
was very badly treated by him, for they said he fre-
quently knocked her down and kicked her, and then
he'd begin to sing psalms and, hymns with a loud
voice, to drown her complaints.—(Laughter.) The
prisoner used to visit church sometimes in a camlet
cloak, with powdered hair, and was remarkable,
upon going into a pew, for keeping his head a long
time in his hat, as if in deep prayer. He must have
been in the habit of going to work with his chisel
daring the most solemn and impressive part of the
service, for he never was suspected before the day
he was caught; and his face was just the thing for
the deception.
The prisoner with difficulty suppressed a laugh.
The LORD MAYOR—I dare say he has not con-
fined himself to stealing prayer-books.
Sapwell said that was soon ascertained. A poor
feeble old man, who was on the verge of the grave,
happened to live in the next room to the prisoner,
and having heard so much psalm singing, thought
that the best way to heaven would be to follow
the advice of so pious a person. The prisoner
showed him the way, but did him out of a mourn-
int, ring at the same time, and pawned it for 12s.
—(Great laughter.) The officer produced the
duplicate.
The LORD MAYOR—Why, prisoner, you have
made good use of your piety ?
The prisoner shook his head, but said nothing.
Sapwell—He called at a church in the neighbour-
hood to make some inquiry about administering the
sacrament, which he appeared anxious to take, and
I found in his room a ticket of admission to the
gallery of Rowland Hill's chapel, where he no doubt
intended to go. The ticket was numbered 72, in
the name of Jenkins, and admitted up to Midsum-
mer, 1834.
The woman, who said she was the prisoner's wife,
was asked by the LORD MAYOR whether she was
married to the prisoner, and if she had been ill-
treated by him ?—She admitted that although he
sung psalms and prayed aloud, he often beat her
severely, and she declared that she was his true and
loyal wife.
Mrs. Elizabeth Coomes, a lady who has a seat
in Aldersgate church, identified the three prayer-
books as her property, which had been stolen out of
her box in the church ; she also identified a pair of
clogs, which, when the prisoner was apprehended,
were found on the seat near him.

Sapwell said, that he had learned that the pri-
soner had been a hackney coachman, and an attor-
ney's clerk, and it was believed that he used to go
to preach in the outskirts of the town. In his paper
list he had noted down the lecture days at the seve-
ral chapels. With respect to his wife, if she had
done anything wrong, it must have been by com-
pulsion from her husband, who had the knack of
quoting Scripture and cursing her at the same time.
No doubt, if the prisoner was remanded, a number
of palish officers would come forward, for heavy
imputations lay upon some on account of the active
villainy of the prisoner.
The LORD MAYOR ordered the witness to be
bound over, and said that the parish officers of the
metropolis should have an opportunity of bringing
forward any charges against the prisoners on Fri-
day next.
REMARKABLE CASE OF AFFILIATION.—AIr. Innes,
the Churchwarden of St. Pancras, Soper-lane,
caused to be brought before the LORD MAYOR a
butcher, named Frederick Corneley, in order to have
him sworn to as the father of the child of Miss Mary
Apfold, a lady who came to town upon a visit to
Mrs. Keats, of Cheapside. The case was a very odd
one. When Miss Apfold, whose brothers ate very
respectable farmers in Kent, came to London to visit
Mrs. Keats, she complained of ill-health, and on
meeting with the sympathy of that lady, and many
kind inquiries, designated her complaint as an in-
ternal tumour. As the young lady had passed her
32d year without any taint upon her reputation, no-
body suspected that the tumour was one which
time would dis.dpate without the assistance of any-
thing but the hand of nature. She made a variety
of applications, with the advice of her hostess and
the surgeon of the family, but the tumour, instead of
diminishing, visibly increased, and Mrs. Keats, ap-
prehensive that the consequences might be fatal if
strong embrocations were not used, sent for Dr.
Ramsbottom. The doctor was not long in the pre-
sence of the ladies when he gave notice that a
stranger would give them a call in a very few hours;
upon which he took his hat and stick and walked
off. Sure enough a stranger did give them a call in
about three hours, and with the vigorous lungs of a
large male baby, and Miss Apfold, immediately upon
his appearance, resumed her original size and ap-
pearance.
The LORD MAYOR, upon being informed that
the lady appeared to affiliate the child to the de-
fendant, expressed surprise at such a proceeding, in
a case where the friends of the female were of such
undoubted respectability.
Mr. Innes said that the family had totally cast
her off, on account of the disgrace which she had
cast upon it. The lady at whose house the unfor-
tunate mother had been taken ill had acted with
the greatest benevolence and compassion, but inter-
cession was quite useless.
-Miss Apfold stated that the defendant had been
two years in the habit of calling at her brother's
farm to buy calves and lambs, and that in December
last he succeeded in seducing her, after having pro-
mised her marriage.
Defendant—December ! July you mean. I
never had anything to do with you till last July,
and then you was suffering under your tumour, as
you call it.—(This was uttered in a very brutal lone.)
The LORD MAYOR—You admit, at any rate, that
you have visited her in this familiar way ? Defen-
dant—Yes, but not time enough. I was not at
her brother's at all near the time she spoke of. It
was somebody else. She mistook some one else

for me.
The brother of the mother of the child stated
that the defendant certainly had called at the farm in
December, and had no doubt at that time accom-
plished the ruin of the unfortunate and now totally
deserted woman.
The Vestry Clerk of the parish in which the child
was born, said that plenty of evidence could be
produced to prove that the defendant visited the
house at the period specified.
The LORD MAYOR—Did he promise marriage ?
Miss Apfold—Certainly he did.
Defendant—What to marry you! Oh, you mis-
take, I never did; you never asked me.—(Laughter.)
The brother—We can never receive her; its the
last thing our family could have thought of; she has
disgraced us.
The LORD MAYOR—It is natural that her family
should feel for themselves; but it is natural also
that they should feel for her, for she is now altoge-
ther helpless and unprotected, and it is evident that
this is her first error. I hope you won't abandon
her to the miseries of prostitution.
The brother shook his head, and seemed coolly
determined to forget that she was ever his sister.
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before Messrs. CHAMBERS and CONANT, charged
with having assaulted a policeman of the C
Divi-
sion, whilst in the execution of his duty.
The policeman stated that the defendant on
Thursday afternoon indecently attacked a young
female, who was walking with her mother, in Re-
gent-street, and this conduct having been resented,

with proper indignation, by the mother, the de.
f endant struck her with considerable violence. A
passenger who witnessed the whole proceeding in-
stantly interfered, and as he was expressing his re-
probation of the defendant's unmanly conduct, the
defendant struck him a violent blow, which knocked
him through the nearest shop window. Witness,
having come to the spot, was about to take the de-
fendant into custody, when he was also attacked and
knocked down. After considerable difficulty, wit-
ness succeeded in bringing him to the office, but as
there was only one Magistrate present at the even-
ing sitting, the defendant was obliged to be re-
manded until the next day. As witness was re-
moving him from the bar into the lock-up room,
he was again assaulted and knocked down by the
defendant, who, however, was soon secured, and
placed under proper restriction. The parties who
had been assaulted did not come forward to prose-
cute, and the reason assigned by the old lady was,
because she wished to spare her daughter's feelings
by the indelicate detail of the origin of the assault.
The defendant, in explanation, said the elder of
the two females asked him to give her something to
drink, and in order to get rid of her importunity, he
gave her a shove. The broken window he had paid
for, and his reason for assaulting the person who
interfered and the policeman was, because he consi-
dered they had no business to meddle with the
affair.

To an inquiry from Mr. CHAMBERS, the defen-
dant answered that he was a labouring man in the
Hon. East India Company's service, at the wages
of 18s. a week.
Mr. CHAMBERS was about to fine him 10s., but

Mr. CONANT observed, that he did not think the
sum large enough, when the nature of the assault
was considered.

Mr. CHAMBERS then advanced it to 155., which
the man paid, and walked out of the oflice.
Mrs. Hampton, the wife of Colonel Hampton, ap-
plied for search-warrants against several respectable
pawnbrokers. Mrs. Hampto►►, in support of her
application, stated, that since the committal of Mr.
Barnes for receiving the 50/. note which had been
stolen from her, she had discovered that a quantity
of very valuable wearing apparel, besides plate, had
been stolen.

The warrants were made out, and placed in the
hands of Schofield to execute.

Mr. Phipps, a solicitor, applied, on the part of
some of Mr. Barnes's creditors, for summonses
against several pawnbrokers, for the purpose of
compelling them to show plate and jewellery which
had been pledged at their respective places, the
property having been merely sent to Mr. Barnes for
the purpose of showing it to some customers of that
person. In support of this application, Mr. Phipps
produced the opinion of Mr. Bullock (as we under-
stood), the barrister. The Learned Gentleman, at
some length, entered into the case, and concluded
by giving it as his opinion, under the very singular
and extraordinary proceedings, coupled with the
termination of the investigation which had taken
place, that the pawnbrokers were compelled to show
the articles upon a summons being issued.
This led to a long discussion, which was ended
by it being successfully proved that the opinion of
the Learned Barrister was wrong, inasmuch as a case
of felony ought, in the first instance, to be made out
and brought before a magistrate. Had that been
done, then a summons could be issued, ordering the
pawnbroker to produce the goods; but as such a
course had not been adopted, a magistrate could not
comply with the application.
Subsequently, some of the pawnbrokers who had
been informed of the nature of Mrs. Hampton's
application, came to the office and informed Schofield
they had no objection to let him and Mrs. Hampton
see the property which was suspected to be stolen; but
they certainly would not produce that which had been
pledged by Ann Vickers, and another female, in the
name of Mrs. Hampton, which had come from Mr.
Barnes, after that lady had declared, on the exami-
nation of Mr. Barnes, that she had not seen the
articles mentioned in the bills which had been found
in the boxes of Ann Necker. It was then arranged
that the warrants should not be executed.

We understand it is the intention of Mr. Barnes's

friends to apply, either to-day or on Monday, to one
of the Judges to allow him to be bailed, and that
very strong affidavits in favour of the accused have
been prepared. Should the learned judge refuse
the application, Mr. Barnes will have to remain in
Newgale for some time, as the Old Bailey Sessions
will not commence until the 17th of next month.