The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-29 00:00:00

INSOLVENT DEBTOR'S COURT, SEPT. 27.

man of humanity and good sense, and as such has
passed through nearly eleven months of his Mayoralty
with tolerable eclat, we should regret to see his laurels
tarnished at last by any indisposition to forward the
cause of Corporation reform, especially should this be
attempted, as it is insinuated to be, by anything re-
sembling a trick. It is unfortunate for the credit of
that body, but we fear indisputably true, that all resist-
ance to reform has of late years uniformly come from
the Court of Aldermen, many of whom, after having
found their way to the Bench as flaming patriots, full
of professions, have afterwards turned out to be the
ready slaves of power, and the patrons of every abuse.
We speak generally, and have no wish to particularise,
especially as most of our readers can want no proofs
of the truth of what we say. But would the present
Court of Aldermen repudiate any share in this asser-
tion, or would the Lord Mayor especially leave office
with the character of credit which he has maintained
during the greater part of its continuance, they must one
or both lose no time in giving effect to an inquiry which
seems intended to be put in abeyance, if not actually sti-
fled by the present reluctance at all to aid in the develope-
ment of the labours of which we last year heard so much.
While we speak as we feel on the score of Corpora-
tion abuses, we are far from being insensible to the
many advantages which have flowed from them, and
which they are capable of dispensing ; but while pri-
vate interests and personal privileges are allowed to
stand in the way, not only of general benefit, but of
full and free investigation, nothing like general satis-
faction can prevail, but on the contrary a degree of
suspicion will exist for which there may in the end
turn out to be no adequate foundation. If we under-
stand the matter rightly between the Lord Mayor and
the Corporation Committee of the Common Council,
it is that the latter are desirous of enabling chat class
of the Commissioners who undertook the London duty
to make their report. This, if there is nothing to
conceal, no one should oppose. If there is anything
to conceal, or any personal privileges and advantages
which would be better away, it is the interest and the
duty of all who do not partake of them more strenu-
ously to contend against. We repeat that we should
be sorry to see the Lord Mayor go out of office under
any thing like a cloud of unpopularity, but still more
sorry to see a long, expensive, and important inquiry
rendered abortive by any manoeuvre among its oppo-
nents.—Morning Herald.
The public has for some time been aware of the in-
tention of his Majesty's Ministers to get rid of Mr. C.
Grant, the President of the Board of Control, by pro-
moting that gentleman to the office of Governor-Ge-
neral of India, and of the alacrity (if, in speaking of
the. President of the Board of Control, one may use
that word without incurring the imputation of too ma-
licious an irony) with which that generally drowsy
gentleman has manifested his readiness to accept the
arduous, important, and very lucrative appointment.
We have said that the office of Governor-General
of India is lucrative, and this is enough to ac-
count for the willingness of Mr. C. Grant to un-
dertake its duties. We have said that those du-
ties are arduous and important, and have thus
rendered sufficiently intelligible the surprise, alarm,
and disgust with which the report of Mr. C.
Grant's intended appointment was received by the
world at large, and the repugnance to that mea-
sure which has always been understood to exist
in the minds of those who have thee deepest and
most immediate interest in the welfare and security of
our Indian empire. The facts, however, whatever may
be their proper explanation, are incontestible, that his
Majesty's Ministers intend to send out the President
of the Board of Controul to assume the Government
of India, and that the Directors of the East India
Company know the President of the Board of Con-
troul too well to concur willingly in that intention. We
are not stating what we now state at random, but are
fortunately enabled to establish our assertions by re-
ferring to documents and proceedings of the most grave,
authentic, and deliberate character. A Special Meet-
ing of the Court of Directors of the East India Com-
pany was held on Friday last at the East India House,
for the purpose of taking into their consideration the
appointment of a new Governor-General of India, in
the place of Lord William Bentinck, who has resigned,
and is expected very soon to return to this country.
There was a very full attendance of Members of the
Court, which, after remaining in deliberation upon this
important subject for four hours, came to the following
significant and decisive Resolutions :
" Resolved—That, referring to the appointment which has
been conferred by the Court, with the approbation of his Ma-
jesty, on Sir Charles T. Metcalfe, provisionally to act as
Governor-General of India upon the death, resignation, or
coming away of Lord William Bentinck ; and adverting also
to the public character and services of Sir Charles T. Met-
calfe, whose knowledge, experience and talents eminently
qualify him to prosecute successfully the various important
measures consequent on the new Charter Act, this Court are
of opinion that it would be inexpedient at present to make any
other arrangement for supplying the office of Governor-General.
" That the said opinion be communicated to his Majesty's
Ministers through the President of the Board of Controul for
the affairs of India."

It will be seen from the terms of the first of these
resolutions, that some " other arrangement for supply-
ing the office of Governor-General' had been pro-
posed to the Court of Directors. This is evident
enough, for no Court of Directors, whether of the
East India Company or of any other, would think of
denouncing as inexpedient a course which had never
been suggested to them. What the suggestion was
which the Court of Directors thought it their duty thus
to repel, and from what quarter it proceeded, the na-
tion is already sufficiently aware. And we may con-
fidently add that the nation, fully cognizant of the me-
rits of the case, will feel that upon this occasion the
Directors of the East India Company have acquired a
new claim to its confidence, respect, and gratitude.
It yet remains to be seen whether his Majesty's
Government" will attempt to force upon the Direc-
tors of the East India Company a Governor-Ge-
neral of India " whose public character and
services " have not, like those of Sir Charles T.
Metcalfe, acquired the confidence of that intelligent
body, and " whose knowledge, experience, and talents"
do not, in their judgment, " eminently qualify him to
prosecute successfully the various important measures
consequent on the new Charter Act." In former days
it would have been concluded without hesitation that
an appointment, resisted as the appointment of Mr.
C. Grant is resisted, must have been instantly aban-
doned. But when it is considered how many Minis-
terial promotions and exchanges may probably be con-
tingent upon the completion of tile arrangement for
disposing of Mr. C. Grant, and with how much re-
luctance the Whigs who were to be benefitted by the
move will relinquish their expectations, the public will
naturally anticipate more than ordinary pertinacity,
on the part of Government, on this occasion.—Morn-
ing Post.

The late Tory meetings in England and Ireland do
not more strongly show the folly arid violence of those
that attended them, than the prudence of those who
kept away from them. Indeed, looking at them as
exhibitions in which the more sensible and distin-
guished Conservatives would not take a part, we think
them creditable to the Tories generally. A Russian
medal in commemoration of a victory bears the motto,
" I was there;" the Tory chiefs of England and Ire-
land may in honour of their discretion adopt the emphatic
allusion in the negative, " I was not there." The Duke
of Wellington was not at Canterbury. Next to seeing
the good which men will do, is the satisfaction of see-
ing the evil from which they will refrain ; and the
persons who go all lengths in faction have uninten-
tionally rendered service, in conspicuously marking
out those who will not accompany them. Even
violence hai it use in thus testing the temperance of
others. It is clear that it is the very madness of the
Tory party which rushes before the public in such
meetings as those of Kent and Cavan. To enter into
any criticisms on their ravings would be like arguing
with the yells of a bedlamite. What can be thought
of men who impute to the present Ministry the purpose
of destroying the Protestant religion in Ireland ? Can
any man in his senses above the condition of the most
ignorant believe in such a design ? Is there any one of
common intelligence and common political information
who is not convinced, that in the reform of the Irish
Church, Ministers are reluctant labourers, much more
likely to fall short of what public opinion demands than
to exceed it ? and in public opinion there is nothing
so unnatural as hostility to the Protestant religion in
the sister country, but there is a very settled resolution

to abate the abuses which are a scandal to the establish-
ment, and detrimental to its sacred objects. It is vain
to make a fierce stand in defence of the disproportioned
revenues of the Irish Church, and to confound riches
with religion, while the fact is before the eyes of the
whole world that the wealthiest Protestant Church
exists amongst the most miserable people. Its wealth
is now indeed in great part a name, for the revolt of A
nation has refused the substance ; and in this revolt,
in the pernicious causes of exasperation, which set a
people against the law, and gave them a triumph over
the law, we see the most conclusive evidence of the
mischievous working of the over-sized and over-en-
dowed Protestant establishment in Catholic Ireland.
This cannot longer be : the evil has reached the utmost
point of sufferance, and it must and will be abated.
Indeed, as sensible churchmen now see that the unre-
formed establishment of Ireland is the foremost danger
instead of the foremost defence of the Church of
England, the man who would cling to the
Irish Church as it is for the safety of the Eng-
lish Church, would, by way of a life-preserver against
drowning, or cork jacket, wear a mill-stone round his
neck. The vessel must be lightened, and we hardly
speak metaphorically when we say that the guns must
be thrown overboard. It is all in the ardent character
of Lord Winchilsea to declare that the House of Peers
may fall and will fall in the defence of those abuses
which he identifies with the Constitution, but in good
season the Lords will ask thethselves what is to be
gained by covering themselves with the ruins of an in-
defensible system. If it be an evil to lose the sinecure
excess of the Irish Church, we cannot see how the
Peers would improve the matter by involving their own
Chamber in the ruins. Lord Winchilsea very trip-
pingly declares himself prepared to fall, but men of
cooler thoughts will ask what statesman-like purpose is
to be accomplished by falling, and will come to the
conclusion that, happen what may to the superfluities
of the Irish Church, it will be better for the Lords to
avoid any share in the disaster. The House of Lords
feeling the value of its authority will stand clear of
falling systems, and make better use of itself than to
perish along with them. " I will die with you" is a
very pretty sentiment for a play or a Canterbury tale ;
but in politics. it is a very silly promise for one of the
Estates of the empire to make to a pet abuse. At
Canterbury the harmony of the absurdity was com-
plete. The object of the meeting and the harangues
were worthy of each other. The commemoration of
a declaration alleged to have been made by the King,
in the very teeth of the Councils of his Government,
is a high farce. How is the declaration authenticated ;
andby a little addition in the kindly warmth of his Ma-
jesty's expressions, and by a little colouring of the
Right Rev. reporter, may not the customary speech for
the yearly occasion have been dressed up into the speech
of a monarch preparing himself for martyrdom? Of this
we are certain, that the King will henceforth be cau-
tious as to the words he drops in his audience of the
Bishops, after the political use which has been so
indelicately made of his cordial and complimentary
language. The Cavan meeting was to the Canterbury
what Irish violence is to English extravagance. The
Orangemen were not preparing, like Lord Winchilsea,
for falling, but blustering of fighting. All these men
will, however, be much better than their words. Time
brings no views of extremities. At Dublin the Orange-
men, through their mouthpiece, Mr. Beresford, threa-
tened the extermination of the Catholics ; at Cavan
they talked as if in danger of being them-
selves exterminated. One moment they are mighty
and can carry all before them, and the next they are
in fear for their lives and crying out for sympathy and
help. One word applies to all the pretences—fudge.
It would be a waste of time, space, and patience to
give a particular account or specimens of the rant and
ravings at Canterbury and Cavan, but we would re-
commend a passage in one of the speeches at the latter
place to the attentive consideration of Mr. O'Connell,
as it shows the uses which the Orange faction can
make of his pernicious repeal agitation, and that he is
furnishing arms to desperate enemies. He thinks to
use the Orange faction to serve his turn, and they think
to use the Repeal faction in the same way ; and,
monstrous as both speculations are, that of the Orange-
men seems to be the better calculated, for any choice
would be preferred to the disruption of international
ties, and the anarchy which would be the offspring of
the O'Connell ascendancy. " There are two courses
upon which men of influence amongst us are in some
degree divided. One is to join the enemies of Eng-
land in demanding the repeal of the union, which is
another word for. separation. The other is to call on the
English people for assistance against their enemies and
ours. The former plan would, I admit, be far more effec-
tual with the present Government. You are aware, or
ought to be aware, that, as Mr. O'Connell has often
confessed, the repeal of the Union is absolutely in
your hands. If you say it shall not be repealed, Mr.
O'Connell and his allies may to the end of time ex-
haust their lungs, or shoulder their bayonets, to effect
it in vain. If, on the other hand, you join the Ro-
man Catholic party—and if, at the next election, both
together send from lielandlos members pledged to the
repeal, no Government, no Parliament can prevent it.
The advantage of this latter plan, which many Pro-
testants and Orangemen recommend, would be that
you can drive the British Government in one moment,
either before the repeal or after it, to a choice between
friendship with you and the loss of Ireland ! and
your justification for adopting it, if the Act of Union
be essentially violated, will abundantly be found in the
maxim Vat justitia :' but it is an anti-Anglican and
an anti-Protestant experiment ; I do not like it ; I will
never try it while one ray of hope or chance of English
sympathy remains."—Times.

William Stokoe, described as Captain of the 10th Regi-
ment of Native Infantry in the service of the Hon. East
India Company, was opposed by Mr. CRESSWELL, on the
part of William Dunn, Esq., of Moleworth-street, Dublin.
He was supported by Mr. COOKE, with whom was Mr.
WOODROFFE.
It appeared that in January, 1823, the insolvent had mar-
ried a Miss Emily Dunn, the sister of the opposing creditor,
at Dublin ; he admitted that he left her within four months
of the marriage to go into "Wales for the benefit of hishealth,
and had never seen her since. On the day of the marriage
as he was stepping into the coach to go to church he said
he signed a deed, but its precise nature he was ignorant of ;
he believed it was to settle 1001. a-year on his wife ; he
considered the settlement as a mere form ; he denied that
he had represented himself to Mr. Dunn as worth 4,0001.,
or that he had proposed settling 2,000/. on his sister. In
the year 1825 he joined his regiment in India, and was pro-
moted to the rank of Senior Captain ; he at present re-
ceived 1961. a-year, and was on leave of absence on the
ground of ill health. In April, 1832, he arrived in Eng-
land, having saved 1,037/., which he deposited in the hands
of certain bankers in India ; these agents failed, and he
had only received 2s. 6d. in the pound on that sum. On
his arrival in England be corresponded, after be had re-
covered from a severe illness, with some members of
his wife's family, in order to effect a reconciliation, but was
unsuccessful. He denied that he proposed 2,0001. for the
consent of the relatives to a Scotch divorce. He was ques-
tioned whether he had not since his arrival in this country
paid his addresses to a young lady at Fulham, and promised
her marriage, with a settlement of 800/. a year. After
much hesitation he admitted that he had been paying " at-
tentions" to the young lady, and was to marry her before
the period of his embarkation for India, which was uncer-
tain. He denied the settlement, or that be had repre-
sented himself as a man of property ; he had, however,
promised the father of the young lady to remit him 2,000/.,
which was to be effected out of his " savings." He was a
subscriber to the Military Fund in India, and was entered
as a bachelor. He said at his death Mrs. Stokoe would
receive no income in consequence. He denied that he had
paid his addresses to a young lady in India, and obliged to
quit that country on that account. He came to England
expressly to effect a reconciliation. He was now impri-
soned at the suit of Mr. Dunn for 1,100/., the arrears of
the sum granted to his wife. He had never remitted her
a shilling. He was arrested in July, on which day he re-
ceived 76/. as pay. He had a portion to pay into Court.

Mr. Wm. Dunn stated that he was a solicitor. The in-
solvent had paid his addresses to his sister Emily ; his mo-
ther had interfered, and he called on him to exercise his in-
fluence. He stated himself to be worth from 3,0001. to
4,0001., and proposed to settle 2,0001. on his sister. He
did interpose, and his addresses were permitted. He drew
up the deed, which the insolvent executed, being perfectly
aware of its contents. He also signed a warrant of at-
torney, and appointed him with his father trustees. Mr.
Dunn described his neglect of his sister and the misery she
had endured. He said a proposition was made to give
2,0001. if a Scotch divorce was consented to, but it was
rejected.
Mr. Treswell, a solicitor, spoke to makinc, the offer. In
one of his letters to his client the insolventheb described the
solicitors of Dublin as " wholly destitute of knowledge and
quite unfit for their situations ; they were a vile set."
Mr. Henson, Lieutenant in the same regiment as the in-
solvent, said he was considered up to his leaving India as
a single man.
Mr. Thompson, a Lieutenant in the army, stated that
the insolvent had paid his addresses to his niece at Fulham,
had proposed marriage, and represented himself as possessed
of property. He aid when he died his intended wife would
have what he posssessed, and mentioned the sum of 20,000/.
Some part of the evidence given by Lieutenant Thompson
was objected to, and he was asked whether from his know-
ledge of the insolvent he would believe him on his oath ?
He replied he would not.
The insolvent was then questioned by his counsel, Mr.
Woodroffe. He said he came to England to be reconciled
to his wife. He wrote some affectionate letters to her,
which were not answered. His presence was required in
Dublin, but he was fearful of being arrested if lie went over.
In reply to a question from Mr. Cresswell, he said that lie
was paying his addresses to the young lady at Fulham while
he was corresponding with his wife's family to effect a recon-
ciliation. The sum of 1501. was paid into court for the
creditors.

Mr. Cresswell spoke in aggravation.
Mr. Cooke having replied at some length,
The Learned Chief Commissioner gave judgment, and
sentenced the insolvent to fifteen calendar months' imprison-
ment for fraudulently contracting the debt with Mr. Dunn,
and that he be confined within the walls of the King's
Bench Prison.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

Sampson Thompson, a large hairy-headed man, was
charged by a cobbler named Mike Donohan under the fol-
lowine, circumstances :
The complainant stated that he was looking about for a
lodging, when a man whom he knew, who lived in Still-alley,
Shoreditch, gave him the key of a room in the same
house, and in he walked with his traps, intending to be
Punctual with the landlord. Next day, however, while his
door was locked and he was in bed, the defendant came
with a bludgeon, broke open the door, threw all the boots
and shoes, bed, awl, lapstone, wax, cups, saucers, and plates
bang out of the window down three stories. Not con-
tent with this cruelty, the defendant seized him by the
shoulders and put him out of the room.

The LORD MAYOR—And did he, do all this without
provocation ? Complainant—l had nothing to do with
him, and don't know what on earth he meant.
The defendant said that he had been obliged to get rid of
the complainant on a former occasion because the man
never had any idea of paying. All he (defendant) asked
of him was Is. a week, but that he could not get. He
therefore was obliged to take the law in his own hands, and
to empty the room, and put a new lock on the door.
The LORD MAYOR—Is this one of the houses which are
in a fallen state ? Defendant—Yes, my Lord, I have got
eight of them, and I expect them to come down ; but I
think they will last, most of them, for another month, if
there an't much quarrelling in them.—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—Upon my word it is a desirable
concern.

Defendant—This man, as soon as I put him out of one
of my houses, walked into another, but as it is not over safe
I didn't object to it. I think myself that the one he is now
in will all come down in a heap of dust one of these days,
so he may stay there ; but he shan't come into the other
without paying, and he owes me 3s. for three weeks' lodging
already.

The LORD MAYOR said that the City Surveyor must
look at these respectable tenemeits. His Lordship told
the complainant that he had no right to take up his abode
in another man's house without permission of the landlord,
and that the only way to get rid of such customers was to
bundle them out, and let them bring their actions, if they
could get attorneys to act for them.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Thomas Walker and his two sons, Alfred and Isaac,
were placed at the bar before T. S. CONANT, Esq.,
charged with baying stolen a considerable quantity of lead,
the property of Mr. Holland, a Magistrate of the county of
Middlesex.

From the evidence it appeared that the elder prisoner
Walker had contrived to obtain possession of a large house,
No. 84, Hertford-street, Mayfair, and after occupying it a
considerable time, without paying any rent, it was at length
discovered that be had been making away with a great por-
tion of the necessary fittings of the house. On Friday even-
ing a policeman of the C division, named Smith, perceived
the two junior prisoners removing something from the pre-
mises, and having watched them he traced them into the
shop of a marine store-dealer in Bedfordbury, to whom they
were offering a quantity of lead for sale. The policeman
interfered, and the result was that it was discovered a great
quantity of lead and other property had been removed from
the premises. The marine store-dealer stated that at dif-
ferent times he had purchased somewhat about three cwt.
of lead from the
junior prisoners, who represented their
father to have failed in business, and that the property be-
longed to him.
In defence the senior prisoner asserted that it was his in-
tention to have replaced the fittings, &c., at a convenient
opportunity.
All the prisoners were remanded, in order to procure
the attendance of some necessary evidence.

QUEEN- S QUARE.
ASSAULT ON THE REV. ROBT. TAYLOR.—Mr. Richard
Carlile, the publisher, of No. 62, Fleet-street, was charged
with assaulting the Rev. Robert Taylor,
Before Mr. Taylor was sworn, Mr. Carlile addressed the
Bench, and said that on a trial in the Court of Common
Pleas, " Benbow v. Orlon," Mr. Sergeant Andrews asked
Mr. Taylor, who was one of the witnesses, whether he
considered an oath binding, which he declined answering,
and Chief Justice Tindal refused to hear his evidence.
Defendant wished the question to be now put to the
Reverend Gentleman.

Mr. HOSKINS (to Mr. Taylor)—Do you believe in a
future state of reward and punishment ? The Rev. Robert
Taylor—l do.
Mr. Taylor was then sworn, and stated that he lived at
No. 421, Oxford-street. On Wednesday evening last he
delivered a lecture at the Westminster General Scientific
Institution, in Grosvenor-street, Milbank, on the " Im-
portance of Character." At the conclusion of the lecture,
as ho was returning from the rostrum, Mr. Carlile came

behind him and struck him a severe blow under the ear,
from the effects of which he had not yet recovered. He
gave the defendant no provocation whatever.
Mr. Stratford, of Kensington, and a Mr. Cripps, con-
firmed the statement.

Mr. Carlile, in reply to the charge, declared that he
never lifted his hand against- a man before, nor should he
have done so on the present occasion had not Mr. Taylor,
in his lecture, made a most cowardly attack upon him. He
could prove that Mr. Taylor delivered the lecture for the
purpose of giving him offence, for he had avowed it. Two
of defendant's friends called upon Mr. Taylor to dissuade
him from delivering tho lecture in question, and he had pro-
mised to comply with their request ; yet he broke his word,
and, after the lecture, he refused to hear defendant's reply
to the attack he bad made upon him. With Mr. Taylor
he had for years been on terms of the closest intimacy, and
he had acted towards him like a brother. The provocation
was so great that he certainly struck Mr. Taylor a blow.
The Rev. Mr. Taylor—l beg to state that what Mr.
Carlile says is not true ; I gaVehim no provocation.
Mr. Carlile here wished to describe the nature of the
provocation which he had received from Mr. Taylor ; but
the Magistrates would not listen to it, and ordered Mr.
Carlile to find bail ; but on Mr. Taylor wishing the Ma-
gistrates to act summarily with the case, they fined Carlile
$l. and costs. The fine was instantly paid.
Robert _Parker, a pianoforte-maker, was next charged
with assaulting Richard Carlile, jun., the son of the late
defendant. The case arose out of the late assault.
Several witnesses were called for the defence, when it
appeared that after the assault on Mr. Taylor he was taken
into a private room by some of his friends, to which the
complainant intruded himself', when the defendant, who had
told him to go out, merely pushed him away.
The Magistrates dismissed the case.