The Sun.
London, England, 1833-07-30 00:00:00

SPIRIT Or THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

-The battle of the Parliamentary press was,
according to expectation, fought in the House
of Commons yesterday, and we rejoice to add
that a triumph more signal or more noble was
never gained than that with which the House
has been pleased to crown the cause of those
much-injured gentlemen, whose lives, it may be
truly said, are devoted to its service. Mr.
O'Connell, who had followed up his opprobrious
charges against the general body of reporters for
the London press by the basest slanders uttered
at a tavern meeting upon the gentlemen who are
specifically connected with this journal, had
moved, as is well known, that the printer and
one of the proprietors of the Times should be
summoned to the bar to answer for the pub-
lication of a letter signed with the names of
no less than eleven reporters, who, feeling
themselves aggrieved by the Learned Mem-
ber's foul-mouthed epithets, had declared that
until some redress should be afforded them they
would no longer do him the favour of reporting
any of his speeches. After what has passed,
and the lofty rebuke administered by the House
cif Commons to the spiteful calumnies of the
chairman of the Cartwright meeting, we no
longer refrain from acknowledging that, in strict-
ness, that letter could no otherwise be defended
than on the ground of natural and highly exas-
perated feelings. Such a claim to favourable
consideration would command, no doubt, the
sympathies of all honourable minds (and how
gallantly and generously were those sympathies
'expressed in the course of yesterday evening !),
but, technically speaking, the letter might be
deemed an imprudent one, and a pettifogging
lawyer might have twisted it into something like
offence, had he not been baffled and put down by
the prevailing sentiment of an audience like
that which taught Mr. O'Connell (as in our
last number we predicted it would) that he had
a different class of men to persuade from any
of his anti-union " gatherings." Mr. Methuen
led the way to the defeat of the poor man's
plunderer, by moving, without disguise or peri-
phrasis, that the order of Friday, for bringing
our printer to the bar of the House, should be
discharged ; and the press generally, we hope, will
not, as we are sure we shall not, forget the ser-
vice thus rendered to us all by the honest,
frank, 'and spirited Member for Wiltshire. It
will be seen from the report what passed on
this occasion. The sound good sense, as well
as right and true feeling of the House of Com-
mons, were never more conspicuously or more
usefully displayed. Most of the distinguished
Members present came forward to deliver their
opinions ; nor was cutting sarcasm, and from
ninny quarters, spared among the weapons of
the learned Repealer's discomfiture. But that he
is defeated, mortified, beaten, crest fallen, we
congratulate the whole journal press—above all,
we congratulate the House of Commons, which
has thus disdainfully separated itself from the
bully-ocracy, and uncombed this cock of 10,000
Irish dunghills. It- now remains for us to state
briefly the change which, on every principle of
good taste, we conceive that yesterday's division
of three to one in favour of our injured friends
has wrought in the relations of the parties. The
vote of the House of Commons is a complete
silencer of the vain and malignant aspersion
upon the reporters. Falsehood has done its
orst, and has failed. The accusation is as if

it had never been. Whether Mr. O'Connell
retracts his calumny or repeats it, or skulks from
the avowal or from the retraction of it, and
leaves the past as a record of his own disgrace,
in our eyes, all of equal value. Were we in
the precise situation of the reporters, we think
we should prefer his " passive adherence" to the
libel, or positive repetition of it, to any
demonstration of tardy penitence or of
repugnant truth. The House of Commons,
the grand inquest, has acquitted the accused,
and we envy not the attitude in which its
verdict has placed the accuser. The House of
Commons, by this just decision, has virtually
passed a severe vote of censure on the Eyre-
arms slanderer. We are convinced that the
emphatic words of Sir Robert Inglis found an
echo in the breast of many a Member when the
Hon. Baronet reminded the representatives of
the people that they had extraordinary powers
vested in them ; that they could inflict by the
freedom of speech, which in their Parliamentary
character belonged to them, the most intolerable
punishment on any or every man in the kingdom,
against whom they entertained a private grudge,
awl could exercise this torture while shrouded
in complete senatorial impunity ; that it behoved
them, therefore, to be cautious of visiting upon
others out of doors a too harsh measure of their
collective resentment, especially when an indis-
creet or heated expression might chance to be
rovoked from the injured in self-defence by
wanton attacks upon their personal fame and
honour. With regard to our reporters, they
will henceforth, after the event of yesterday,
be aware of the propriety of avoiding to
embarrass or engage the House in the vindi-
cation of even their just quarrels with indivi-
dual Members. We are satisfied, that so far as
,etocerns their late calumniator, they will enjoy
their victory with moderation. These gentle-
men in other respects judge rightly of their po-
sition and their duties. Whatever quick mea-
sures or warm language they may have been
compelled to use, they never have dreamed
(though dishonest insinuations may have fallen
from certain parties on that subject)—they never
have dreamed of assuming an unwarranted atti-
tude or tone. But in this recent case our sense
of the justice of their quarrel was so strong
that we should have felt ourselves the basest and
most dishonourable of men had we not stood
strenuously by them. We have nothing more
to do with Mr. O'Connell in his Parliamentary
character ; the House of Commons has cut that
knot ; but in his conduct towards us we have to
beg—nay, to require, that instead of a paltry and
unmanly sneering at the reporters, conductors, or
proprietors of this journal, in an assembly where
the shield of privilege is before him, he will give
vent to his rancour at such times and places
only as may enable us to insure redress for our-
selves in some way without the intervention of
the House of Commons.— Times.

The motion of Mr. O'Connell for bringing
the printers of the Times to the bar, was rejected
by an overwhelming majority of 153 to 48.
This decision we were led to anticipate ; for
how could the House take it upon itself to sit in
judgment on the newspapers as to the manner
in which they may execute the discretionary
powers uecessarily vested in them. Every
Member naturally thinks highly of himself; and
were the House to determine the quantity of
type with which Members ought to be satisfied,
instead of quarrelling with the reporters, they
would be seen quarrelling with each other.
The artists in the exhibitions of the Royal Aca-
demy, constantly complain of being unjustly
dealt with by professional brethren in the bang-
;l; of the pictures. In like manner an Hon.

Member, on seeing his hour's eloquence com-
pressed into some 20 lines, while a whole half co-
lumn was assigned another Member, who only
spoke a quarter of an hour, would consider himself
sorely aggrieved, and if he found his complaint
of partiality not listened to by the House, he
would place this to the account of illiberal jea-
lousy on the part of brother Members. In
short, it is utterly impossible for the House to
come to any decision on the charge of partiality
in reporting, without exposing itself to the most
serious difficulties. Admitting, as we willingly
do, that the unfounded and illiberal accusations
of Mr. O'Connell form no justification of a de-
termination to exclude his speeches from the
reports, we are yet at a loss to see how the
House can mend matters ; and this point was
strongly dwelt on by Mr. Methuen, Mr. Ro-
binson, Sir Robert Peel, and several other
Members. The views of Mr. O'Connell with
respect to this matter were thus stated by him :
" He (Mr. O'Connell) should he very glad
that the debates of that House should go
fully abroad, but then they should also
be under the correction of the Speaker.—
(Laughter.) It was not right that the reports
of what was said in that House should be mis-
stated ; they ought to be correct if reported at
all. If papers went on publishing the business
of Parliament, and that incorrectly or falsely, the
only remedy was to prevent the publication of
any." "He meant (he further observed) to
persevere and bring the question before the
House every time the Times published an ac-
count of their debates. * * He insisted
on an apology, and would not allow any
violation of his rights by any person what-
ever. No person should say he was made
an outlaw. * * * * If any one would
move to rescind the standing order he would
vote for the motion ; but while the order re-
mained he should insist upon it. If the House
shrunk from this motion, he should, but not
till then, clear the gallery." Accordingly, when
the gallery was re-opened after the division,
Mr. O'Connell immediately moved the standing
order for the exclusion of strangers, and the gal-
lery was cleared accordingly. The House de-
liberated for the rest of the night with closed
doors. It was understood, that after the gallery
was cleared, Mr. Robinson gave notice that he
would move the suspension of the standing
order. The question is now between the House
and Mr. O'Connell, and not between Mr.
O'Connell and the press. As the House very
properly refuses to commit itself in an unprofit-
able contest with the conductors of newspapers,
Mr. O'Connell says, that so long as the standing
order exists, he will move for the exclusion of
strangers. This state of things cannot of course
last long. The House must either rescind the
standing order, or prevail on Mr. O'Connell to
give way. We are astonished that a man of
Ir. Hume's experience should talk such arrant
nonsense about the House, having an authorized
reporter to give their debates. If the reports
of this authorized reporter (though, by-the-bye,
not one merely, but twenty reporters at least,
would be necessary to give the debates of the
House) are to be published daily, who will wade
through fifty or sixty columns of heavy rubbish
every day ? Now the object of Members is not
merely to be reported, but to be reported in such
a way as to obtain readers. An Englishman
does not wish to confine his reading to Parlia-
mentary reports. During the hour or two that he
can spare from his avocations to read, he wishes not
merely to peruse the debates in Parliament, but the
news of the day—the proceedings of Courts of
Law, Police Offices, &c. Of all the hallucina-
tions ever entertained, that of an authorized re-
porter is the most ridiculous. Even as a record
for reference, the reports of these Parliamentary
reporters could not be depended on. The noise
in the House—the going out and in—the pe-
culiarities of delivery, &c., would be felt in au-
thorized reports, as well as in those now exe-
cuted for the press. We are quite certain that
the present state of things will be of short con-
tinuance. It is an understood matter that the
debates of Parliament must go forth to the pub-
lic. Mr. O'Connell and the House must settle
matters as they best can. We should imagine
that the Hon. and Learned Gentleman must, by
this time, feel that he has acted a very foolish and
unadvised part throughout, and that he wishes he
had never moved in it. But it is characteristic of
Mr. O'Connell to yield to every impulse. He is
carried away by every gust of passion. When he
ought to be unrelenting, he suffers himself to be
gained over ; and, like the child who one mo-
ment gives away its toy, and the next cries for
it, he no sooner makes concessions, than he
repents of them. In the case of Mr. Nugent,
of the Times, even on his own showing,
his conduct was unjustifiable. He gave way, he
says, to feelings of commiseration, and stated
of Mr. Nugent more than he believed, to pre-
vent his dismissal. But having done this, he is
not at liberty to turn round and repeat the
accusation. There is in all this a lamentable
want of self-government, to make use of no
harsher term.—Morning Chronicle.
The report of the Select Committee appointed
to investigate the long-prevalent and notorious

corruption of the Freemen of Liverpool was
presented last night in the House of Commons,

and we refer our readers to a copy of it in
another column. The Reformed Parliament
has at least honestly and ably discharged its
duty, in exposing the political scandal of this
country periodically displayed at the election of
the representatives. This result of the Reform

A cts is alone a substantive gain, and must lead
to legislative remedies. The Warwick and
Liverpool Committees both report and animad-
vert on the system ; and open voting cannot
long exist, unless means are adopted to extin-
guish the gross and abandoned treating, bribery,
and other mal-practices and " influence" exist-
ing in the smaller constituencies, and in some
larger cities and boroughs. The artful " amend-
ments" proposed by the Tories in the discussion of
the English Reform Bill, were almost exclusively

to perpetuate corruption, and their own political
domination. They created the electoral tenants
at will, because they knew that the majority of
that class being " without a will," would be ne-
cessarily their subservient tools. The Tories
were the cunning advocates of popular rights
(but really sheep in wolves' clothing) when they
succeeded in preserving the franchises of the old
needy burgesses or freemen of the towns; and
the most extensive liberality ever pretended by
Lord Ellenborough, was in favour of a 5/.
franchise for the smaller boroughs, because he
knew the certain weakness of such a class of
voters. Hence the zeal of the Conservatives
on behalf of the rotten constituents of Lord
Sandon. The Liverpool report has recorded
a sweeping indictment against the corrupt
voters, and the system of Liverpool elec-
tion?. The existence of any general or extensive
system had been boldly and imprudently denied,
and was successfully concealed by one chicanery
or another in the preceding Committee. But

the evidence on which the report is founded,
and which will be printed, will amply attest the
integrity of the Committee decision. It appears
that the municipal and political elections of the
town are equally corrupt—that the lower class
of electors openly demonstrate their eagerness
to be bribed—and that a most shameless system
of bribery exists when a contest occurs. We
shall, however, analyse the report to-morrow,
and do justice to its merits. It is only second
in importance and value to that of Warwick,
and must necessarily terminate in the disfran-
; chisement of the freemen. The corporation,
close, irresponsible, and otherwise defective, will
be doubtless duly attended to by the Municipal
Commission. We observe in the House of
Lords last night, the uneasiness displayed by
Lord Wharncliffe on the subject of Corporate
Reform. His Lordship affected the gravest
anxiety for the security of corporate property,
and we do not doubt that the intended measure
is very unpalatable to the Tory Peers and Lord
Sandon. We shall to-morrow trace the illegal
acts reported against the borough of Liverpool
in connection with the Corporation, and we
think we can convince Lord Wharncliffe of the
ill-judgment of his inquiry.— Morning C'hron.
Our paper of this day appears in a very curious
guise. We give a report of the proceedings of
the House of Lords, and also, up to eight
o'clock, of the proceedings of the Commons ;
but, although the House sat, as we are informed,
till a late hour, we have no farther report to pre-
sent. The cause of this deficiency is no ground
of shame to us—it arises entirely from the con-
duct of that agitator, who, having kept Ireland
in a state of fever during many years, and sub-
jected to his dominion every thing in it, mental
and corporeal, would now trample upon the press
in this country, because it is not base enough to
yield submission to his views, and to report every
word of nonsense which it might please his High
Mightiness to utter ! The creature ! How can
he dream upon succeeding in his despotic at-
tempt ? What gentleman connected with the
press, who has the feelings of a gentleman,
would think of submitting to his despotic dic-
tation ? He avers that he broke the neck of
the public press in Dublin, and although he
has said it, we doubt not the fact ; but he has
now bidden defiance to the London press, and will
he find it equally yielding ? The Hon. Mem-
ber, no doubt, thinks that he can play the same
game here that he has played in the sister
country, and that because he is the representa-
tive of a certain portion of the Dublin com-
munity, he is at liberty (having a vow in heaven
against fighting) to insult those who are only
the reporters of the opinions of others; but let
us assure the Hon. Member, that he has for
once mistaken his mark—that the parties with
whom he is contending are not his inferiors in
any respect, but more than his equals in literary
and scientific attainments, as well as in good
breeding—that they will not bear to be designated
by the most infamous and galling of all the epi-
thets which can be applied to men, whatever
their rank cr condition in society, that of wilful
liars—and that at any cost, at any hazard, they
are willing to fling back the accusation in the
teeth of its author, with all the adjuncts which
may naturally be imagined to accompany it. It
was mentioned last night, during the debate on the
subject of calling to the bar of the House the
printer of a contemporary journal, that many of
the reporters for the press had been educated
for the bar and the medical profession—let us
add that there are not a few also who either have
been, or are now, connected with the press who
have been educated for the Church—who have
appeared in better society than ever Mr. O'Con-
nell had access to, and that were their attain-
ments to be weighed in the balance with those
of the Irishman, the latter, in nine cases out of
ten, would kick the beam. Yet these are the
persons to whom Mr. O'Connell would give the
lie ! Since writing the above, we have learned
that the reporters for the different morning pa-
pers have felt satisfied with the vote of the House
of Commons upon the subject, and that, being
relieved from the odium of the aspersion of the
Hon. Member for Dublin, they will, in future,
report his speeches as they have previously done,
that is, faithfully and impartially. We expected
nothing less from their honour and impartiality ;
at the same time, had they yielded to Mr.
O'Connell, instead of the vote of the House,
they ought to have been kicked.—Morning
Advertiser.
We know from pretty good authority, of
which, indeed, any one giving himself the
trouble may soon obtain ocular proof, that no
diminution has taken place either in the number
or the nefarious practices carried on at the high
and low gaming-houses in the neighbourhood
of St. James's and Regent streets. How this
is we cannot tell. Early in the present year,
the parochial authorities appeared to have taken
up the subject with a zeal and earnestness which
did them the highest credit. But, in the lan-
guage of Scripture, having once put their hand
to the plough, they should not look back ; for
to embark in a warfare with the hydra, and then
relinquish it, gives the adversary a triumph and
a consequence he could no otherwise obtain.
In short, it is like " showing the white feather"
in any other species of contest, which brands the
exhibitor a coward. We are well aware how very

little encouragement the parties in question have
received from persons in authority—from those
v‘ho ought at least to have zealously seconded
them in their endeavours, if they had not, in
fact, taken the task out of their hands. We
regret, moreover, to hear this reluctance ac-
counted for by the fact, that there is some-
where or other an official sympathy in these
matters, and that parties cannot reasonably be
expected to put down vices in which they
themselves partake. We shall be happy to find
that this is a mere invention of the enemy-.—a
scandal which the parties in question may readily
remove if they are convinced that it is such. In
the mean time all that we ask on the part of the
public is that, by some means or other, these
detestable practices, if not rooted out, may be
checked from spreading their baneful influence
among us. It has been said of the titled
gamester that he ought to be allowed to ruin
himself in his own way, and that his occupation,
however disreputable, concerns nobody but him-
self. Though we deny, and repudiate this doc-
trine, we nevertheless readily admit that the
' practices carried on at the lesser Hells are
lishmonger's Hall,
a
infinitely more prejudicial to the community
atilt) adn
tthheor
s pursuede
of
p attriciau depravity. At
those sinks of iniquity,
i of which one, if
resorts
not more, of the courts n s James's-street
is ~ames's-street
is almost wholly composed, servants of all
descriptions, but especially the shopmen of
retail traders, daily or nightly attend; and as
they become the snctims of the harpies to whom
these pandernonza belong,it is not unreasonable
to Suppose that their masters'tills or stocks are
the resource from which their losses are sup-
plied. Indeed, the fact has been over and over

again proved to be so, independent 'of the far
greater portion of the plunder whichl is never
discovered but in the insolvency of the masters
so plundered. And is this a subject upon
which the tradesmen, who are members of the
parochial Board of St. James's, or of any other
parish, can or ought to be indifferent ? On the,
contrary, even if the case is not yet their own (of
which some of them had better not be too sure),
what is their neighbour's case to-day may be
their own to-morrow. When these dens of
infamy approach the mansions of the great, they
are held up as " burning shames," while ob-
scurity is allowed to sanction profligacy, and
impunity is readily ceded to that which does not
offend the eye. Only extend this to other crimes,
and our public functionaries will soon have the,
to them perhaps not disagreeable, task of pan-
dering "to ears polite."—Mcrning Herald.

The discussion of Mr. O'Connell's motion to
call the printer and publisher of a morning
journal to the bar excited considerable curiosity
last night, and the report of it will repay the
attention which it is sure to receive. The result
was precisely what we had ventured to antici.
pate. The House of Commons would not con-
sent to gratify the pique or to heal the wounded
vanity of an individual Member at the expense
of a contest in which it would certainly have
been defeated, and in which victory, had victory
been possible, would have been still more dis-
graceful and ridiculous than defeat. Mr. O'Con-
nell is, however, not a man to be willingly dis-
appointed when he meditates vengeance. If he
cannot do precisely what he wishes, he will at
least do something. And accordingly, not
being able to draw down the resentment of
the House of Commons upon those who
were the first and principal objects of
his displeasure, he bethought himself of
the resource of clearing the gallery ; that
is, of' relieving -the whole body of reporters
in attendance upon the House of their arduous
labours for that evening—of disencumbering
the columns of the Morning Papers of this day
of a mass of matter which might have been good
reading, and might just as likely have been very
bad reading—of depriving the people of all
means of knowing, for one night at least, what
their representatives have been about, and of
disappointing various well-meaning and simple-
minded gentlemen from the country who had
manifested so much bad taste as to appropriate
one of these fine summer nights, which may be
spent so much better in a thousand other places,
to the gallery of the House of Commons. So
vigilant was the Hon. and Learned Member to
prevent any evasion of his stern decree that he
exercised his authority over the doorkeeper to
debar the gentlemen connected with the press from
access to the room adjacent to the gallery, which
by the favour of the Speaker has been appropriated
to their accommodation ; and we were told that
he even visited the apartment, in the roof from
which ladies are sometimes permitted to hear
the debates, lest some wicked reporter should
have intruded himself into this political boudoir
in feminine disguise. From the disposition
manifested by the House during the discussion
of the Hon. and Learned Member's motion,
there can be no doubt as to the result of a pro-
position which is to be brought forward this
evening by Mr. Robinson, to suspend the
Standing Order for the exclusion of strangers,
sol that to-night the reporters will return
refreshed and reinvigorated to their labo-
rious duties, and every thing will go on as usual.
The House of Commons has seen the propriety
and necessity of deserting the Hon. and Learned
Member for Dublin. Surely this ought to con-
vince him that he has not been pursuing a very
prudent or honourable course, and induce him
to do all that he can in order to repair the error
and atone for the injury he has committed.—
Horning Post.

The Burgomaster of Rotterdam has given
notice that the fair usually held there on the 12th August
will not take place this year. At Gouda also there will
be no fair held.
The Journal de Calais of the 24th inst.,
states that the arrivals of travellers in that port in the
course of the preceding week amounted (notwithstanding
the tempestuous weather, which had detained many on the
English coast) to no less than 1,463, being more than in
any one week since 1830.
We learn that there were several political meet-
ings during the week, of the Opposition Peers, at Apsley-
house, and at the Marquis of SALISBURY'S, in Grafton-
street. Lord LYNDHURST, who is going the Norfolk
Circuit, came to town for one day, on Thursday, and
voted in favour of the Archbishop of CANTERBURY'S
amendment that evening. His Lordship again took his
departure for the Circuit on Friday, after having had a
long conference with an illustrious Duke. The Marquis
of LOTHIAN and the Earl of HOME came to town from
their respective seats in the North, to vote against the
measure. The last-mentioned Noble Earl, with the Earls
of KINNOUL and COURTOWN, and Lord MONTAGU, of
Brighton, assembled daily, in the afternoon, at the Duke
of BUCCLEUCH'S residence, in Privy Gardens, whence
they proceeded at six o'clock, to attend in their places on
the opposition side of the House. Lords ABERCROMBY
and KING, whose politics, of course, assimilate with
those of the Ministry, took the oaths and their seats on
Friday, in order to qualify themselves to vale on
the third reading of the measure. The Earl of CARNAR-
VON gave his first vote in the House on Thursday, in favour
of the Archbishop's amendment on the 117th clause.

KEAN'S VILLA AT BUTE.--The villa was

so much admired by the late eccentric tragedian, that be
frequently declined engagements, and lost many hundred
poth.l9, by his anxiety to visit it and remain in it as long
as he could possibly extend his stay. Here, amidst gay
friends, and spirits of a kindred mould, poor KEAN loved
to luxuriate, and set the table in a roar. " With these
conversing he forgot all time," and defied managers'
books and prompters' calls. Very often, however, a visit
to KEAN was literally a service of life and death. His
guests were completely at his mercy ; for they could not
get away till a ship came ; and when the wassail cup
flowed brightly, and the festivities ran far into the night,
the actor often became unmanageable, and glasses and bot
ties flew about among the heads of the company as thick
as arrows at Chevy Chace. Some of his dramatic friends
were celebrated and envied for the dexterity with which
they evaded these missives, but others who could not (as
our Scotch proverb says) " jeuk and let the jawp gae
ower" were often surprised in moments of danger. Next
morning there was a profusion of apologies, kind words,
and friendly hospitality, but scars sometimes remained as
indelible as the blood-spot on Lady Macbeth's hand.
Few persons of taste or feeling will sail past the wild and
beautiful shores of Bute without thinking in pity or admi-
ration of the late owner of the villa.—lnverness Courier. j

EXECUTION.---On yesterday, about one
o'clock, the awful sentence of the law was carried into ex-
ecution at our county goal, in presence of an immense
concourse of men and women, on PATRICK BYRNE, con.
victed on Wednesday last of the murder of EDMOND
JOICE. As BYRNE, who was dressed in a torn old blue
coat, a miserable corduroy trousers, and stockings also
full of holes, was led out, be appeared to be extremely
faint and pale, and deeply penetrated with a sense of his
situation. He could not be more than about three or
four and twenty years of age. The Rev. Gentleman
asked him had he any thing to say as to the justice of
his sentence. He replied with a wild sort of look, " Oh,
it was I killed him !" After then calling on God to have
mercy on his soul, he was put out on the board. At first
he stood, with his limbs tottering, but they became firm
—at length the fatal bar was pulled, and he was thrown
off. Owing to the board from which the unfortunate
man was hurled, presenting a slanting position, and, of
course, throwing him out in a slanting direction, his
body rebounded, and struck the wall. He heaved con.
vulsively for a short time, and died in about three or
four minutes. After hanging the usual time, his body
was conveyed on a common car to the county infirmary
for dissection, —Kilkenny Journal, Saturday.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

f MAR Y LEB ONE.

ELOPEMENT AND:RECONCILIATION.—Yesterday,John
Fidd, a pip'-soaker, was brought up for re-examination
before Mr. RAwurrsosr, on a charge of robbing Mr. Rub-
bart, the proprietor of the Recruiting Sergeant inn, Bear-
street, Norwich, with whose wife he had eloped.
The prisoner had been remanded to allow time for Mr.
Rubbart to come forward, and who, being now in atten-
dance, intimated to the Magistrates his wish not to press
the charge against the prisoner, as a reconciliation bad
taken place between himself and wife, who had agreed to
accompany him back to Norwich, and to bury the past in
oblivion.
Mr. Rawustsost—You are a most good natured hus-
band, and I hope you have succeeded in recovering at least
some of your lost property with your wife.
Mr. Rubbart bad found some articles which he believed
to be his in the prisoner's possession, but he would not
swear to them ; but the four hundred pounds which his
wife had drawn from the Norwich Bank, was as yet un-
accounted for.
Mr. RAwLINsoN said that he bad no objection to the
arrangement which had been made, and ordered the pri-
soner to be discharged. Before, however, he had quitted
the office, he was pounced upon by one of the parish of-
ficers of St. John, Norwich, who had a warrant against
him for deserting his wife and children to elope with the
innkeeper's wife, and he was conveyed away in custody.
EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE.—Ann Oakden, Who Was
remanded yesterday morning, was again placed at the bar,
at eight o'clock last night, to answer to the following ex.
traordinary charge :
John Goodwin, a boy of about 12 years of age, son of
Mr. Goodwin, coffin-maker, residing at 33, Park-street,
Camden-town, stated that, at 11 o'clock yesterday morn-
ing, the prisoner and a man of middle age entered
the house of which he was left in charge during his father's
temporary absence, and proceeded into the back parlour,
where lie was sitting, when, after strapping him to a turn-
up bedstead in the room, the man at the same time hold-
ing a pistol to his head, with which he threatened to shoot
him if he made the least resistance, they proceeded up
stairs, and shortly after came down, when the man, of
whom he had not the least knowledge, unstrapped him,
and, with the prisoner, decamped over the palings, by
which means they had in the first instance effected their
entrance. On going up stairs directly afterwards be
(wi.ness) discovered the pannel of the door broken and
his father's desk wide open. He then went up into the
second floor, and found every thing in disorder—a pocket
book and a bag, in which his father kept his money, were
lying on the bed. He was quite sure that the prisoner
was the woman who bound him, as she had washed for
the family a long while.
Mr. Goodwin said that the sum taken from his desk
was 191., all in sovereigns.
Police constable, S 25, as he was going down Park-
str eet, about one o'clock yesterday morning, was informed
by a son of Mr.
-Goodwin that his father had been robbed,
and on entering the house be found the desk open, as
described, and every thing in confusion. He then went
to Bayharn-street, where the prisoner was at work, and
found her at the wash-tub, at which, to all appearance,
she had been some time engaged. She denied any know-
ledge of the robbery, and said she had been at work since
nine o'clock. He had not been able to gain any informa-
tion as to the man who was stated to have entered the
premises with her.
Mrs. Brown, laundress, Bayham-street, Camden-town,
deposed to the fact of the prisoner having been employed
in washing for her at the time of the robbery spoken of,
and for some hours after, which statement was corrobo-
rated by other witnesses, who gave her the best of cha-
racters.
Mr. Iltwurrsow said it was altogether an extraordi-
nary affair. The boy had sworn to that which, if true,
would affect the prisoner's life • but he (the Magistrate)
had no hesitation in expressing his belief that the statement
was net founded on truth.
Mr. Goodwin bad no reason to doubt Isis son's state-
ment, hut bad no objection to leave him in the Magistrate's
custody, if he thought any thing more satisfactory could
be elicited from him.
Mr. RAWLINSON then discharged the prisoner, and was
quite confident she had been wrongly accused.
Yesterday, Thomas Armond, a constable of the D di-
visi.in, brought before Mr. RAWLINSON a young woman
of genteel and lady-like appearance, whom he found asleep
on one of the benches in the enclosed part of the Regent's-
park, at an early hour that morning.
- The constable seeing the young lady asleep on the seat
at such an early hour, awoke her, and asked her what
she did there. Upon recovering herself she looked to-
wards Heaven, and then begged him to have pity on a
wretched outcast and wanderer, who had neither a friend

nor a home in the wide world. She then, amidst a pro-
fusion of tears, declared that she had not tasted food for a
day and a half, and that she was consequently dreadfully
exhausted. He conveyed her slowly to the station•house,
hut she pertinaciously refused to give her name, or to say
where her friends resided.

Mr. RAwLisrsoN—You must tell me your name.
She replied that nothing on earth should force that secret
from her.
Mr. RAWLINSON—Then it will be my unpleasant duty
to send you to prison.
The stranger was familiar with afflictions which Provi-
dence had thought proper to visit her with, and feared no
earthly punishment. She then sank on the fluor weeping
bitterly, and
Mr. RAWLINSON ordered the officer to conduct her

into his private room, and send fur any refreshment she
might fancy, and be would himself see that she was pro-
vided for in some proper asylum.
UNION-HALL.

A stout able-bodied man, named Walker, was charged
with assaulting a policeman in the execution of his duty.
On the preceding night, while three policemen were
engaged in carrying a drunken woman to the station-
house, the defendant rushed to her, exclaiming he would
see justice done. The moment of his interference the
drunken woman began to halloo out " Murder,' upon
which the defendant attempted to rescue her from cus-
tody, and it was proved that he struck one of the po.
licemen.

The defendant endeavoured to palliate his conduct by
asserting that the police were using more violence in
taking the woman to the station-house than was neces-
sary; adding that he, as an Englishman, could not stand
by and see one of the "female sect" ill used.
Mr. MURRAY said the Commissioners were most
anxious to purify the police force, and that if the de-
fendant had any complaint to make against any one of
the men, it would be thoroughly investigated at Scotland-
yard. He, however, did not adopt that plan, and for
the assault he was sentenced to pay a fine of 21.
Yesterday George Hyman:, a boy of fourteen years of
age, was brought before Mr. MURRAY on the following
charge :—The prisoner was an errand-boy in the employ
of Mr. Toplis, a tobacco manufacturer in the Borough,
and in consequence of several packages of segars having
been missed from the stock a search was instituted. In
the course of this search some bundles of tl e missing segars
were found in the prisoner's possession, and he confessed
that he had taken others from the stock.

When asked by the Magistrate how be bad disposed of
the segars, the prisoner replied, .6 Why, I smokes them
myself. to be sure."

MAGISTRATE (with surprise)—What ! a boy of your
age smoke eg ara ? Prisoner—l likes backy, your
Worship.

The MAGISTRATE said, that it was quite ridiculous to
observe the boys who promenaded some of the principal
streets with segars stuck in their mouths, puffing out
smoke to the right and left, to the annoyance of females
and other persons who were unaccustomed to such an
effluvium. The Magistrate then questioned the boy's
mother, and asked her whether she would prefer having
him committed to gaol, or undergo the punishment of
flogging at the rear of the office ? The prisoner, on
hearing the question about the flogging, burst out crying,
and afterwards exclaimed, "For God's sake, your Wor-
ship, don't flog me, and I'll never smoke a @eggr again as
long as I live."

The mother thought a good whipping would do her son
more good than sending him to gaol amongst other per.
sons worse than he was himself. At all events it would
sicken him of smoking his master's segars.
The boy was then taken into the yard and well
whipped ; after which he was again brought into the pre-
Bence of the Magistrate, who gave him a severe lecture,
and then discharged him.

Yesterday as Inquisition was taken before Mr.
limns, at the s;gn of the Griffin, in Villiers-street, Strand,
on the body of JAMES PHILLIPS, aged 40, a well-known
waterman at Hungerford-stairs, who was drowned while
bathing in the Thames. The unfortunate deceased was
greatly respected by all who knew him, and was a great
favourite among the gentlemen fond of aquatic sports on
the Thames. About ten o'clock on Monday morning, the
deceased was observed in a tnonkey-boat, some distance
from the shore off Hungerford-market, pulling his clothes
off for the purpose of bathing ; he was seen to plunge in,
but although a good swimmer, he never rose again. An
a'arm was soon given, and a number of boats put off.
Drags were procured, but the body was not found until
half-past three o'clock in the afternoon. Verdict...erAc.
cideotally drowned."