The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-10 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS.

The adjourned sessions commenced yesterday at
Newington, before R. HEDGER, Esq. (the Chair-
man), and a full bench of Nlagivrates.
Samuel Gibbs and George Hellyer, the former the
brother of an innkeeper, were indicted for stealing
two faggots, the property of George William Webb,
the parish clerk of the disfranchised borough of
Haslemere.
The evidence against the accused parties was,
that on the sth of November, commonly called
" Guy Fawkes' day," they were seen together in the
vicinity of the house occupied by the parish clerk,
about nine o'clock the same night. Gibbs was dis-
tinctly sworn to as having been observed in the act
of throwing some of the faggots over a gate from
the prosecutor's premises into the road, and he was
heard to desire a boy to go into the town and tell
the people to come up there to get the faggots to
make a good bonfire.
In his cross-examination by Mr. JEMMETT the
parish clerk admitted that Gibbs and he had been
at variance for some time past.
Mr. JEMMETT—Has it not proceeded front the
difference in your line of politics ?
Parish Clerk—What has that to do with my
faggots ?—(Laughter.)
Mr. JEMMETT—Is it not true that you are a
Tory, and that you displayed a strong feeling in
Haslemere upon an occasion that Gibbs also exhi-
bited something of the same kind on the other side of
the question ?
Parish Clerk—We are opposed to each other in
politics; but what has that to do with my faggots?
—(Renewed laughter.)
Mr. JEMMETT—You state that your faggots were
stolen on the night of the sth of November. Is
not the good old Popish custom of lighting bonfires
on that occasion still kept up in Haslemere ?
Parish Cierk—Guy Fawkes day is kept up, but
that is no reason why my faggots should be burnt
at night to please the mob.
Upon further investigating the charge it appeared
that a few faggots were taken from the pr,,osecour's
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house, but there was no proof that they eretaken
with a felonious intent. Tie fact was, that on the
right in question some of the townspeople, desirous
of having a bonfire, and knowing that
the parish
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The Jury here said that they were satisfied of
Cie innocence of the accused parties, and prc-
iunced a verdict of acquittal.

We are sorry to announce the sudden nd
serious indisposition of the Countess of E,sex.

LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1833.

His MAJESTY held a Privy Council yester-
day at the Palace, Brighton, where a Proclama-
tion was agreed upon for proroguing Parliament
from Thursday next, the 12th, to Tuesday, the
4.h of February, when it will meet for the de-
spatch of business.

`We have received an address from the free
coloured inhabitants of Berbice, to Sir J. CAR-
MICHAEL SMYTH, Governor of British Guiana,
dated 23d October, 1833, thanking his Ex-
cellency, in warm terms, for having repealed all
the laws placing them on a different footing from
the white population. His Excellency in his
answer, dated the 25th October, besides the
common-places usual upon such occasions,
says :

" Under the circumstances in which you are now placed
by law, and with the conviction you cannot but entertain,
of its being the firm intention of his Msjesty's Govern•
ment not to permit the continuance of distinction., either
theoretically or practically, founded upon colour, let me
earnestly entreat of you to endeavour on your parts to
forget the words, and to present to the Government no
further petitions or addresses as ' men of colour'—you
will assume, without further difficulty, that place in
society to which your abilities, information, or wealth
may entitle you."

Let these sentiments be carried into practical
effect, and we' need: entertain no fear of the
great experiment now being tried in the West
Indies failing to produce an improved social
condition in that part of the empire.

We direct the particular attention of our rea-
ders to a long but most excellent article extracted
from the Morning Chronicle, on the subject of
the libellers and slanderers, and on the law and
practice of libel. The doctrines of the real
liberty of the Press, and of the rights and limita-
tion of free discussion, are treated with great
force and discrimination. The valuable infor-
mation on the jurisprudence of the United States,
and the amendment of the United States law of
libel, is highly important at a moment when the
subject is attracting such peculiar attention. The
fact is, that the liars and slanderers of private
and public character, whether from political or
other malignant motives, have reached their
maximum, and have at last disgusted all the
virtuous classes of society. On the other hand,
the defects of the law, which allow the occasional
persecution of the Press, must be speedily re-
medied. We recommend our liberal country
contemporaries to publish the leaders of the
Morning Chronicle of yesterday and to-day,
that this subject may be placed in its proper
light throughout the kingdom, and that the
liars and libellers may at least have the fear be-
fore their eyes of the Club-law recommended by
FRANKLIN.

We give to-day the result of the trial which
took place in the Court of King's Bench yester-
day, to decide the right of the inhabitants of
Richmond-terrace and Privy-gardens to be ex-
empted from parochial burdens. As Richmond-
terrace and Privy-gardens have all the benefits
of lighting, watching, &c., we cannot see on
what principle of justice they should not contri-
bute to defray parish expenses incurred for those
and other purposes. We are rejoiced, there-
fore, that the verdict of the Jury has declared
that Lord C. THYNNE, Sir R. PEEL, the Duke of
BUCCLEUCH, and others who seek tobe exempted
from them, shall not escape the payment of a
fair proportion of the parochial burdens, because
it is only within these few years that houses
have been built from which payment can be
levied. It matters not that the ground belongs
to the public, and that to have the houses upon it
free of taxes, would benefit the public property ;
the question is one of strict justice between the
parish of St. Margaret's at large and this section
of the parish, which wants to have exemption
from burdens to which it is in common fairness
liable. It may be that the Court will overturn
the verdict of the Jury ; but surely it is time
that the remnant of feudal privileges like this,
which exist among us, should be done away with.

We perceive that several of our conservative
contemporaries are making efforts to force their
favourite, Mr. SADLER, the Duke uf NEW-
CASTLE'S Newark nominee, down the throats of
an_ independent body of electors. Hudders-

field, of all places in the world, has been chosen
as a fit town in which to pass off this piece of lack-

ered ware for pure gold. We will not insult
the constituency of Huddersfield by supposing
that they would for a moment entertain the idea
of choosing a man to represent them who
wished them to have no representative at all :
but as the Tories are apt to put Mr. SAD-
LER forward as a friend of the people, and as
many, in the warmth of their feelings for the
sufferings of our manufacturing population, par-
ticularly the juvenile part, have been induced to
look upon him with an eye of favour, for the
earnestness with which he urges the adoption of
his quack medicines for the removal of those

sufferings,—for these reasons, we say, we will just
remind all constituencies to whom he may pre.

sent himself of one fact. It is this ; that let him
bawl about the sufferings of the poor till he is
hoarse, and weep over the fate of the factory
children till he is blind, he does not intend to
vote for the only measure which can relieve
either. The poor are poor because they cannot
obtain employment, because there is not food
to be given in return for their labour, and
because the landlords will not allow them to
exchange that labour for food grown abroad.
The remedy for their poverty is to take
off the res.riction imposed upon the ex-
portation of the articles they could produce ; but
this is precisely the remedy which Mr. SADLER
refuses to apply. The remedy is the same for

the prevention of "children overworking them-
selves in factories. Neither the little things
themselves, nor their parents, desire to work
fourteen or fifteen hours per day, but working
only half the time gives only half the work, and
only half the work would produce only half the
food. In the manufactories established in Belgium
and Prussia, many of them started with English
capital which was not allowed to be similarly
employed at home, thousands of children are
employed, but they are anything but overworked.
The traveller going through the valleys of the
Vich and the Meuse may see them in the even-
ing sporting in the meadows, or climbing the
steep, wooded slopes, which form the banks of

those beautiful streams, with all the bounding
hilarity of youth. Why is this ? Food is cheap,
and a few hours' toil serves to furnish them with
an abundance of the necessaries of life. They
want no law to compel them not to overwork
themselves, neither would our own children if
Mr. SADLER did not compel them to give one
third more, and sometimes twice as much, for
their bread as is given by the work people of
Prussia and of Belgium. With this plain fact
before their eyes, we cannot believe that any
constituency, but especially a manufacturing
constituency, will suffer itself to be gulled by Mr.
SADLER'S stories about the advantages of cul-
tivating our own barren heaths, of home colonies,
and the other schemes which hethopes to make the
people believe will be as good as cheap bread. We
have the more thought it our duty to make these
observations upon Mr. SADLER'S pretensions,
as the probability of Mr. MACAULA.Y going to
India has given some of the Conservative clique
in town hopes of getting the humanity-monger
in for that borough, should Mr. BLACKBURNE,
of which there can be little doubt, succeed at
Huddersfield. Surely the ex-Member for
Newark cannot have forgotten, if his friends
have, the reception he before met with at
Leeds.

WHALING EXPEDITION.—A paragraph,
entitled " Extraordinary Preservation," has found its way
into the columns of some of our south-country contempo-
raries, in which are detailed the marvellous adventures of
two seaman, belonging to the Middleton of this place, who
are said to have cruised about for ten or eleven days in
the northern ocean on the back of a whale ! The story
unfortunately is not true, but the real facts of the case are
worthy of publication. On the 21st July, Captain Kerr,
of the Middleton, had a boat and crew employed in watch-
ing two fish, which it was found impracticable to get
alongside of the vessel, in consequence of their being at
some distance in the ice. The fish were distant from
each other about a mile and a half, and two men were on
the ice near one of the fish when it ci.me on to blow a gale
of wind, which drifted the boat and the other fish out of their
sight. They remained about 50 hours after all the provisions
were exhausted, excepting what they obtained from the dead
body of the whale, and at this time another dead fish floated
up alongside of the one which they had in charge. On
the 26th July the men were picked up by the Lord
Gambier of Newcastle. Captain Kerr, understanding by
a signal made from the Lord Gambier, that his two
men were on board of that vessel, immediately sent a boat
far them, and this boat's crew discovering that the Lord
Gambier's boats were endeavouring to get at their two
fish, the harpooner and another man jumped upon the ice,
and got to the whalesjust when they were at the outside
of the ice. These two men did actually embark, each on
board of one of the whales, and were a considerable dis-
tance from the ice and in the open sea when Captain Kerr
picked them up. They were about ten hours afloat upon
the whales, and during a considerable part of this time each
of the men enjoyed a sound sleep.—Aberdeen Observer.

On Saturday last three of the prisoners con-
fined in our gaol effected their escape, viz., John Wilson
and John Mitchell, two idle vagabonds from Dumfries,
committed on a charge of housebreaking and theft; and
John Macdonald, a hardened offender belonging to this
town, though only 16, who was convicted at our Circuit
Court in April of theft, and sentenced to nine months'
imprisonment. The prisoners occupied separate cells ; the
cells are always locked up for the night at 3 o'clock p.m.,
but on Saturday the three prisoners alluded to had gone
into a private closet adjoining, taking part of their bed-
clothes with them ; and they concealed themselves there
while the turnkey was locking up the cells. It was the
practice of the turnkey, on locking up the cells, to ask if
the pr isoners were within, but on Srturday he unaccount-
ably omitted this duty. Between 8 and 9, after the gaol
had been finally locked, the r•ffenders came out, and, with
the aid of an iron spike, taken from the window in the
passage, raised the flags in the passage, and removed the
sand and earth beneath, and forced their bodies under the
door of the ward into the staircase. Having found some
keys in the outer passage, they went up and made their
way into the Court-house ; threw up the window on the
eastern side, and descended into the close occupied by Mr.
Gillan. About 12 the trio proceeded unmolested out of
town. They took the road to Drumnadrochit, and ar-
riving at Temple House stole two beehives from the garden
by the road side. They next obtained whisky, and Mac-
donald, with eating honey and drinking spirits, got sick,
and was left behind. The other two proceeded four or
five miles further, when they entered a house and stole 275.
The theft being detected, they were pursued, and the
money returned to the owner, who suffered the rascals to
go at large. By this time, however, the owner of the
rreehives had discovered his loss, and having got informa-
tion of the depredators, overtook and brought them back.
Wilson again effected his escape, but was taken the same
night near Invermorriston. The whole were then put in
a cart, and brought to Inverness, where they are located
in their former quarters. —lnverness Courier.

We regret to state, that on the 28th ult., a
man named Neal Gowan, a driver in the employment oi
the Marquis of Sligo, was waylaid and barbarously mur-
dered near Hollyinount, in this county. At a coroner's in-
quest, at which Mr. James Gales presided, a verdict of
" Wilful murder" was returned against James Hughes as
principal, and Martin Hughes a. aiding and abetting.....
Mayo Constitution.