The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-06 00:00:00

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF SATURDAY

GLOBE.—Yesterday was a grand day fin- the Tories,
and the dreims of power which they have long indulged
are at last substantially realized. The official seals,
which, like the air-drawn dagger of Macbeth, have so
long, with " the handle towards the hand," been hover-
ing above the heads of the leading,Conservatives, are at
length firmly in their clutch—visions of Treasury boxes,
and bundles of papers tied together with red tape, are
no longer . _ _

" False creations,
" Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain;"
but are now as sensible to the touch as to the eye ;
and Sir Robert Peel, instead of starting up under an
attack of nightmare, and screaming for a Treasury
messenger, has at length substantially under his com-
mand the whole troop of underlings in the employment
-of-Government. It would be unfair to ask, at this mo-
ment, what the new Ministers mean to do ; for, in the
first flush of triumph at having been really installed into
place, it is probable, that, so far from knowing what they
mean to do, they are not quite aware of what they are
actually doing ; and as excessive joy is said occasionally
to place a man in some uncertainty as to " whether he is
standing on his head or his heels," we suspect that many
of the new Cabinet are in the condition when it is diffi-
cult to determine which happens to be uppermost. We
should be rather inclined to say that the head
had lost its proper pre-eminence, and that the
heels had gained the ascendancy, when the new Cabinet
galloped off post haste from Claremont, leaving their
Royal Mistress, as the Standard tells us they did, to eat
her dinner alone, after the Sovereign had made it a
special request—not a command, as her Majesty might
have done--that her recently appointed advisers should stay
and dine with her. They must indeed have been intoxi-
cated with pleasure when they committed such a gross
breach of etiquette as that which their evening organ im-
putes to them ; and history will record the fact, -that the
first act of an Administration that had forced itself
on the Crown, without invitation at all, was to prove
its contempt for the Royal wish by rudely refusing to
comply with the first personal request that the Sove-
reign had the unprecedented condescension to make to
her Tory Ministers. But they had got their seals, and,
like children with a new toy, they must go home to
play with them. As to Sir James Graham, he could
nut rest a moment, but must drive to Downing-street ;
and the Earl of Aberdeen also " transacted business"
at the Foreign Office, which, as the Government apart-
mutts were all being swept and scrubbed, must have
been got through amid the din of pails, brushes, and
charwomen.

STANDARD.—A change in the cost of producing
corn may have occurred since 1828, and such a change.
would be as good a reason for modifying the scale of
protecting duties as a change in the value of money.
Whether a change in the cost of production has occurred
since 1828, we are not in a condition to say with any
certainty; but if it has, it must be plain that the scale of
duties necessary for protection in 1828 is not necessary .
1841. The purpose of every such scale is to protect agri-
culture from deterioration, and to encourage its advances;
whatever goes beyond this is unjust, and injurious in more
ways than one to agriculture itself, as it would not be
difficult to show; but for our present purpose it is suffi-
cient if we have explained that a preference of certain
definite pecuniary arrangements, several years ago, is
no proof of an opposition to other duties at present,
while the principle of complete protection is maintained.
It is, however, unnecessary to say more of the Corn-
laws, because the present Conservative majority was,
in fact, elected mainly with a view to maintaining the
principle of these laws, for which the Conservative ma-
jority of the 24th of May unreservedly declared itself.
Upon the Corn-law question, therefore, there is not the
most remote danger of a division among Conservatives.
' Ireland —but here the chances of Conservative division
' are, if possible, still less to be anticipated. We give
below gratifying proof of the absence of such danger.
There is indeed in the defensive position of a
Conservative party, and more particularly of a party
resisting great and terrible evils, a principle of union
' which can scarcely exist to the same extent in any
other party. Such a party having no aggressive
purposes, can have no motive for a separation
which the surrounding peril proves to be fatal.
Were the Conservatives now to divide, they
know who would succeed to power, and what
are their designs—not the Whigs, from whom
mischief might be apprehended ; in moderate mea-
sures, they are extinct—but the motley crowd of free
traders, Infidels, Radicals, and political Romanists,
agreeing in nothing but in seeking the destruc-
tion of whatever the Conservatives hold dear. The
next change of Ministry in this country will, if men
hold to their present temper, be a change from monarchy
to republicanism in Great Britain, and a dissolution of
the empire. This it is which distinguishes our present
state and duties from what they were at any former pe-
riod ; and we have, happily, another distinction. Leaders
of parties are as prone to mistakes as the humblest of
their followers ; and though we believe Sir Robert Peel
to be as able, honest, and upright a Minister as ever go-
verned the country, we claim for him no infallibility, and
we rejoice to see that he is not exposed to the tempta-
' Lions to error before which some of his predecessors have
stumbled.

COURIER—There are few things in this world so
thoroughly evil to the core, as, when thoroughly sifted
and examined, not to be found capable of yielding some
proportion of good. As in the physical world, the meanest
and most malignant creatures have their proper uses, if
we could but discover them, so events and occurrences in
the political world, which short-sighted mortals are wont
to look upon as portending nothing but disaster or cala-
mity, too often prove the means of multiplied benefits
to the nation, and of its ultimate safety. 'Thoughts of
this kind naturally suggest themselves to our mind when
we contrast the former palmy state of the party lately
in power with their present crippled condition. Far
be it from us to indulge in shouts of unseemly triumph
over the vanquished ; the defeated are entitled to
commiseration—the fallen to forbearance ; but never-
theless a salutary lesson of political wisdom may be
read in the causes that have led not only to the over-
throw of the late Cabinet, but to the utter prostra-
tion of the Whig party. The most conclusive proof
that the Whig Ministry had far outlived its allotted
term of life, is, we think, to be found in the fact that in
the first division that took place in a Parliament con-
vened at their own time, and under their own auspices,
they found themselves in a minority of 91 ; and
that party in the State which lately claimed for
itself the dignity of power, and assumed the re-
sponsibilities, can now hardly muster strengths enough
to present a tolerably decent front in opposition.
POLICE INTELLIGENCE

MANSION-HOUSE.
THREE POLL ONE.—A respectable man, named
Wood, was charged -by City policemen, 646, 669, and
645, with having assaulted them.
The policemen stated that the deendant was in Bi-
shopsgate-street the night before in a state of intoxica-
tion, and that he suddenly went up to two women who
walking quietly together, and tripped one of them
so that she fell like a log. One of the policemen asked
the woman who was thus ill-treated whether she would
give the defendant in charge, to which she replied that
she would not, as he was drunk. The defendant then
went on and the women followed him, and he abused
them dreadfully, and annoyed the whole neighbourhood.
Upon being expostulated with, he attacked the police-
men, who found it necessary to secure him and take him
to the station .house, where he tore the coat of one and
violently assaulted the rest with hands and feet.
The defendant declared most solemnly that the state-
, ment just made was in all the leading features false. He
was passing soberly and quietly along Bishopsg,ate-street,
when one of the two women alluded to put her arm round
his neck and asked him to give them some drink. He
pushed her away—they both followed him, abusing him
in the most filthy manner, and he called to one of the
officers to take them in charge. The policeman refused
to take them in charge, and he (defendant) said that he
would report the policeman who refused to do his duty.
This was the signal for all sorts of maltreatment ; a
desperate attack was made upon him by the three police-
men, who dragged him to the station-house, beat him
with their staffs and put handcuffs on him, although he
had never committed an assault upon anybody. He ad-
mitted he resisted when they were putting the handcuffs
upon him, but who could endure such an indignity ? and
he positively asserted that one of the policemen was with
the girls and was quite ftuniliar with them.
The women did not make their appearance.
The LORD MAYOR asked the policemen whether they
were correct in stating that the defendant struck them
aIL? They all answered in the affirmative, and said that
they never had so violent and uncontrollable a man.
The Defendant—l'll take my solemn oath before God
that I never struck a blow.

The LORD MA.Yon—Have you any witnesses ? The
Delendaut—No, my Lord. I was by myself, and I could
not have witnesses in a station-house.

The Loan MAYOR—I am here to take evidence, and
those three men swear that you assaulted them. You
must find bail. The Defendant—What evidence can a
man who is walking home by himself be expected to
have against a set of policemen who take the part of
prostitutes, and handcuff him and beat him desperately?
My hands are cut to pieces by these men, and it is only
necessary for three or four of them to get together and
trump up any story. It is really a dreadful abuse.
The Loan MAYOR—You must find bail. If you have
any complaint to make against the policemen, you must
go to the City Police Commissioner.
The defendant found bail immediately.
We have not heard whether the Commissioner entered
into the inquiry.

BOW-STREET,
SmottruLPosmoN.—On Saturday Thomas Green
the keeper of a marine-store shop, in Clement's- lane,
appeared to show cause why he detained two metal
spoons, the property of Sarah Cain.
The complainant stated that she was a widow, and
having been ill for several weeks, she was compelled to
pledge a variety of articles, in order to procure food for
herself and children. About a month since she took the
spoons in question and some other things to the defend-
ant's shop. and he advanced her one shilling upon them,
and for which she paid him twopence a week interest.
At the expiration of a month she went to relieve them,
when the defendant gave her up the other articles, but
denied all knowledge of the spoons.
Mr. JARDINE inquired whether the defendant was a
pawnbroker ?
The complainant replied in the negative ; but said he
was in the habit of' advancing money to pOor people like
herself, on various articles brought to him, and for which
he charged interest. lie did not give them any dupli-
cate. but entered a list of the articles &posited with him
in a book, which was kept by himself. Oti one occasion
he advanced her 2s. 6d., fim which he charged her stl a
week interest ; and she paid him 4s. 2d. for ten weeks'
interest (a tolerable per tentage!).
Mr. JARDINE said the defendant had got himself into

a serious scrape by acting as a pawnbroker, without
being li.!ensed so to do.

The complairiant said it was a common practice with
rnarine store-shop keepers and others, who took ativan-

t.►ge or t

tnisl'ortuilt'Js

and advanqd them money on article
terest the amount she had first stated.

le3 of roor peopli

;, charging fur in-

Mr. JARDINE said the defendant's charge for interest
was most exorbitant, and a shameful imposition on poor
persons like the complainant. He was not aware that
such ineamous frauds were practised on the poor, and
would do all in his power to put a stop to them. The
defendant declared that he never advanced money on
goods. He bought them, and if the parties chose to re-
purchase them at the expiration of a week, or any other
time agreed upon between them, he allowed them to do
so on their paying him a trifle for warehouse-room.
With regard to the complainant's spoon; he had never
seen them.

Complainant having called a witness who was present
when she delivered the spoons to the defendant, and
proved that fact, the defendant called a witness who act-
ed as his assistant, who swore she did not see the spoons
among the things brought to her master's shop by the
complainant. In answer to a question from the worthy
Magistrate, she admitted that the defendant was in the
habit of buying goods for a limited time, such as a week
or a month, and when he re-sold theta he charged the par-
ties for warehouse-room.

Mr. JARDINE said the defendant's cunning would not
shield him from the penalties to which persons were lia-
ble who practised as pawnbrokers without being duly li-
censed. He thee ordered the defendant to pay complain-
ant the value of the spoons. and also the costs of the sum-
mons, which he reluctantly did.
Mr. JARDINE then directed the clerk to take down the
names and addresses of all the parties, with a view to ul-
terior proceedings against the defendant, and at the
same time expressed his determination to put down
such an abominable system of imposition as that prac-
tised by him.

net; are scores of these pawn-shops in London,
where the business is carried on openly, and under the
very noses of the police, who, however, take no steps to
put them down. By the Pawnbrokers' Act (25 George
III.) it is enacted, that every person who shall exercise
the trade of a pawnbroker shall take out a licence, and
renew the same annually, under a penalty of 501., and
that all persons who shall receive any goods, &c., by way
of pawn or pledge, for repayment of money lent thereon,
shall be deemed pawnbrokers.

THAIIIES-OFFICE.
CRIM. CON. EXTRAORDINARY.—THE BLACKSMITH
AND HIS WlFE.—David Row Lind, a blacksmith, was
brought before Mr. Broderip for final examination on a
charge of stealing property to a large amount, belonging
to James Ruggett, of Bristol. The prosecutor is a striker
in a blacksmith's shop at Bristol, and the prisoner, who
occupied a room in his house, was a fellow workman. On
the 10th of August, the prosec'utor's wife left her home,
and when Ruggett came home on the evening of that
day, he found that two pigs, worth 71., had been removed
from a stye and sold by his wife for 41.; she had also
taken away two suits of clothes belonging to him, a tea
caddy, a green box containing property worth about
501., and other articles. The prosecutor told his friends
that he had lost his " old woman" as well as his pigs,
and they all sympathised with him except the prisoner, who
laughed, 'and said it was a good job, and that Ruggett
ought to be delighted he had got rid of such a wife. On
the following Monday, the 10th, the prisoner left Bris-
tol by the railway, and the prosecutor ascertained that
his wife had only left the city an hour previous, and
that she was joined by the prisoner at the Bath station,
and they both set off for London in the same train.
Ruggett could hear no tidings of his wife until Saturday
last, when he was informed by letter that she was living
with the prisoner in Park-street, Limehouse. He came
up to London immediately on the receipt of this intelli-
gence, and was passing the King's Head public-house in
Limehouse on Tuesday evening, when he saw the
prisoner in the tap-room, and at once gave him into
custody. The only articles found in his possession be-
longing to the prosecutor were a handkerchief and a
knife, which he identified, but Ruggett's wife, with the
most unblushing effrontery, said she had given them to
her paramour, and that she took the pigs and other
property from her husband's premises to support
" Davy, and that she dearly loved him. Mr.
Broderip was much disgusted with the woman's conduct,
and said she was an adulteress, and he would not hear
anything she had to say.
Mrs. Rowley, a lodging-housekeeper, in Park-street,
Limehouse, said the prisoner hired lodgings for himself
and Mrs. Ruggett, whom he called his dear Mrs. R., on
Wednesday, the 18th ult., and brought a good deal of
property to her house, which had been seized by the po-
lice since the prisoner had been in custody.
The prisoner, in defence, said the knife and handker-
chief found upon him were given him by Mrs. Ruggett,
and that she ran away with him instead of his running
away with her.

111 r. BRODERIP said he should commit the prisoner for
trial on the principle of law, that if a man and the
owner's wife jointly take away the husband's goods, it
may be felony in the man, though he was acting jointly
with the wife.

The " dear Mrs. R." cried bitterly, and hung over
" her dear Davy" for some time on hearing the decision.

POLICE CORRECTIONNELLE.
The heart of a man is as tough as a flint, and as hard
as the nether millstone. The heart of a woman is an inex-
haustible fountain of love and tenderneEs. At her tenth
year the young girl loves her mamma ; at twenty, the
youthful epousee doats, or is presumed to doat, on her
husband ; at fifty, the lady on the decline seeks solace
in the love of God ;. at sixty, the poor old widow, or
vecille fille, loves to distraction her poodle, cat, nor pm--
roquet, but en revamhe she has a fine collection of
pigeons, and concentrates upon them all those sparks of
lingering attention which yet find a resting place in he-
atne refroidie. At the rear of the apartment which she
occupies in the Faubourg St. Martin she has constructed
with true ornithologic intelligence, a long and 2.ommo-
dious aviary for her cherished pets, which are thus per-
mitted to enjoy a sweet, a peaceful, and above all, a com-
fortable existence. Dame Tonnard each evening, having
first assured herself that her winged prisoners want for
nothing, closes their doors and windows, and early next
morning comes to restore them to liberty, a privilege of
which they avail themselves with much more prudent
forbearance than the bulk of mankind. After having
fluttered during the allotted period from roof to roof,and
journeyed from house to house, they return at dewy eve
to the maternal nest, and enjoy that repose and security
which is only to be found under the shelter of the
Penates.

In front of Madame Tonnard's apartment there lives
an old employe, named Lebuis, who has purchased by
30 years' service the right to rise at whatever hour he
pleases, and do exactly as he likes from morning to night.
Lebuis has also his petite passion—a passion as harmless
and innocent as that of his fair neighbour. Lebuis culti-
vates, trains, and tends throughout the entire length of
his three windows a garden of eight good feet by 14
inches. There the fragrant honeysuckle caresses with
the amorous embraces of its picturesque branches the
graceful jassmine and majestic dahlia. Not an hour in
the day passes without Lebuis visiting his floral trea-
sures, and, according to their momentary necessities, ex-
posing them to the rays of the sun or sheltering them
from his too great intensity; while, regularly as the
shades of evening descend, with a carafe of filtered
water he imparts new life and freshness to drooping leaf
and withered stem.

Upon that rarii,y, a fine clay, in the late lugubrious
July. Lebuis perceived with the clairvoyance of a true
horticulturist, by certain infallible signs and tokens, that
his flowers had been rudely visited during his temporary
absence, pecked, deranged, defiled. He lay in ambush,
and was not slow to perceive a plump-breasted pigeon
disporting amongst the leaves of his delicate treasures,
and turning up the earth beneath them with its beak, in
the hope of finding there some grains of seed suited to
its appetite. He easily seized the indiscreet rover, and
the first movement of his indignant soul was to twist the
bird's neck ; but, moved with compassion at the sight
of the graceful creature, whose plumage glittered in the
sun like a collar of sapphires and emeralds, Lebuis
abandoned his avicidal project. Determined, neverthe-
less, to prevent the recurrence of so dire a disaster, he
attached to the pigeon's neck a piece of writing, upon
which his complaint was engrossed in due form,•and let
it loose.

That same evening, Dame Tonnard, having proceeded,
according to custom, to inspect her little aviary before
going to bed, was not a little astonished to perceive a
paper suspended to the neck of ono of them. With a
tremulous hand and fluttering bosom she unfolded the
billet (could it be a billet dour?), and read as follows :
"Madam—l have the honour to acquaint you, that if
you do keep your pigeons from ravaging my garden,
should I catch them hereafter within my enciente, I shall
LeE,BroUnlnSa,rdEnimpiilvoeyr-e.l'ike
eat them boiled aux petits pois.
" Your humble servant,
passed a sleepless night in reflecting on
This horrible threat made Dame
tahneacs(pmednOctSwhheich it was befitting that he should pur-
; and the
yher with the following reply,
evilsu e in
counsellor,s uc h atl eitnnseprigreendc night, this time an
which she despatched to her ruthless neighbour by her
carrier.pigeon :
" Monsieur—You are an impertinent fellow to dare to
threaten my birdS ; and if be an
you kill them, you will
old assassin.—Your servant,
Lebuis's reply w " VEUVE TONNAEII."
as conceived in these terms :
" Madame Tonnard—You are an old fool, the worse
for being old. If your birds return to-day, they shall be
digested to-morrow.—Not at all your servant,
" LEBUIS, Employe."
The correspondence ended here ; not so the quarrel,
4, a very
pretty one as it stood." For many following
days; from one window to the other the neighbours ex-
changed the most injurious reproaches, to the great an-
noyance of all the adjacent inhabi!ants, whose repose
this intestine war most grievously disturbed. Accord-
ingly, those who were most litigiously disposed amongst
them set on the pair to make the Commissary of Police
the judge of the trivial difference. This counsel was
rashly followed • and a reciprocal comp/laird having been
lodged before ihe Procureur du Rol, the affair was
discussed at the Police Correctionnelle, where both
parties appeared at once as plaintiffs and defendants.
The Tribunal, having heard with admirable patience
the reproaches and recriminations of the rival parties, in
consideration of the common category of" faults on both
sides," dismissed the paxtis dos a dos, having first taken
care to warn them how they went to law for the future,
by making them share the costs equally between them.

PED ESTRI A NISM.—TIIIII-10w had accomplished
one half of his task at Richmond-hill Gardens. at twelve
o'c.ock on Tuesday last, and has now completed 570 out
of 1,000 miles in 1,000 successive hours. He shows no
symptoms or distress, but expresses full confidence of
being able to finish his arduous undertaking.—. Norfolk
Gazette,