The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-03 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TM PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The Times of yesterday favoured its readers with a
second edition, to give an express from their notable
correspondent in Madrid, dated from that capital on
the evening of the 24th of September, in which it
states, " that a courier had just arrived from Lisbon,
with the intelligence of Don Pedro's death, which
took place on the morning of the 22d ult." We
greatly fear the account of Don Pedro's death will
too soon reach us, but we do not believe that it was
known in Madrid upon the 24th ult. We have an
express from thence which left on Thursday the 25th
ult., at half-past five o'clock, p.m.: up to that hour
no such account had reached Madrid. On the pre-
ceding day—viz., the 24th—news had arrived that
he was in a dying state." It will be seen by our
correspondent's letter, that that was " the subject of
every conversation." Further, we doubt whether it
was practicable for the news to have reached Madrid
from Lisbon in the time specified by our contemporary.
—Morning Chronicle.
The parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, has it in contem-
plation, we see, to put up the office of sexton for sale
to the highest bidder ; which is tantamount to telling
the buyer to make the most of the office, without being
over nice about the means ; or, in other words, leaving
him to deal with his " vested interests," subject to
neither check nor control. A story used to be told of
a gentleman, who sat many years in Parliament for the
borough of Berwick-upon-Tweed, that upon his con-
stituents attempting to remonstrate with hiin on the
subject of a vote, in which he appeared to have con-
sulted his own interests in preference to theirs, he si-
lenced them by this laconic reply, " What, have I
not bought you ? and shall I not sell you?" So,
probably, it will be in effect, at least, with
the grave-digger of St. Luke's, should he purchase
the right of sepulture. We refer to this apparently
unimportant subject, solely with the view of
warning Reformers from falling into the worst
errors of the old, corrupt, office-selling system.
If the parochial reformers of St. Luke's think the emo-
luments of their sexton higher than they ought to be
for an individual in such a station, there are two ways
of remedying the evil, and, at the same time benefiting
the parishioners, quite as obvious and much more de-
sirable than that of putting up the office to sale, the
price for which would only benefit the rate-payers for
one year, and might subject the parishioners to extor-
tion, while the remedy, according to the Berwick-upon-
Tweed case, would be gone. One of these would be
lowering the fees now payable to the sexton, and thus
lessening the burden on the parishioners ; the other,
by taking the receipts into their own hands, and carry-
ing them to the parish account, allowing a competent
salary to their " goodman delver." Either of these
plans would be infinitely preferable to a method, the
objection to which we need not repeat ; not the least
of which would be the giving to the enemies of reform
the triumph of seeing one of their worst practices thus
readily adopted by those who profess to repudiate
them.—Morning Herald.
The failure of the Governor of the Bank of Eng-
land is not an event to be passed over in silence, like
one of the ordinary vicissitudes of commercial affairs.
In stating our opinions of this great monopoly at the
time when the present charter was agreed to, we were
less opposed to it, as an abstract question, than we
might have been, principally on account of the diffi-
culty we felt in confiding the issues of paper currency
to the Government, which seemed to be the only al-
ternative. But we calculated at least on the posses-
sion by the Bank Directors, as a body, of those qua-
lities and recommendations which should reconcile
their fellow-citizens, and the whole monied interest of
the empire, to the placing in their hands so important
and responsible a trust. We relied on the selection
for it of the very elite of the metropolis, whether in
property or in knowledge of the financial operations
that must constantly be brought under their cognizance.
On the present occasion, however, we find a gentleman
fulfilling the important duties of Governor of the
Bank, the member of a commercial house, which
has dwindled away from a state of respectability
to one of insolvency, and whose want of
credit has been perfectly well known, it seems, for
years
.past, to all persons engaged in large monied
operations in the city. We disclaim earnestly all de-
sire to press hardly on an individual suffering under a
calamity like this, and according to the current belief,
without any fault of his own ; but this is a public
matter in which all men of property are interested, and
it was for his colleagues, who must have known his
situation, to have called on him to retire, at least before
the time for his accession to the chair arrived. Hints of
that nature have been given before, and acted upon, in pe-
riods when the public were less sensitive than they are
now as to the character of the managers of the Bank.
It is the duty and the interest of those who remain to
see that a better course is pursued for the future. We
charge the Directors with this, because it is notorious
that the elections are a mere form ; and that though
the Proprietors vote, the new members are entirely of
their nomination, no opposition having for years oc-
curred to those on whom they fix. If the system is
not changed, we are certain that public indignation will
force the withdrawal of the trust from such hands at
the earliest period that the Legislature have left it in
their power to reclaim it.—Times.

The death of Don Pedro, which we announced in a
second edition yesterday as having taken place on the
22d ult., had lost almost the whole of its political in-
terest, by his previous abdication of the Regency ; the
esults of which event, under the circumstances of in-
curable illness which produced it, were not likely to
be much affected by the Emperor's bodily dissolution.
Respecting the character of the deceased Prince, it has
been, as was inevitable, painted in the most opposite
and inconsistent colours. Don Pedro was not merely
at the head of a party, but of a party representing one
of two principles, which during the chief period of his
public life have divided eastern and western Europe
into as many hostile powers, and society into separate
camps. Pedro and Miguel have, therefore, been by
the advocates of Despotic or Constitutional Govern-
ment, as the case might be, visited with nearly an equal
measure of abuse. They were, as it needed not Pedro's
confession to inform us, alike shamefully neglected
throughout their childhood, as to all that constitutes
intellectual or moral culture--and were ushered into
action with no better shield against extreme depravity,
than that which was supplied to them by extreme and
brutal ignorance. Yet Pedro is said by those who
were familiar with him to have been born with dis-
positions worthy of higher treatment. Having no
other example but that of arbitrary power, and the
unrestrained abuse of it, ever before his eyes, it is
no wonder if the unfortunate Prince grew up hasty,
self-willed, and overbearing, or that in his government
of Brazil he should have furnished some proofs of such
propensities, which outraged decency as well as justice,
and in the end no doubt reacted with fatal mischief upon
his own fortunes in that hemisphere. Time, however, and
difficulty, and the harsh trials of his preceding career,had
operated beneficially upon the above vices of his charac-
ter. The Regent of Portugal, from the hour when he
landed at Oporto, manifested a praiseworthy advance-
ment in the process of self-restraint. He was less
violent, obstinate, and capricious than at any former
period of his life ; he listened to counsel,—he endured
remonstrance,—he personally indulged no vindictive
feelings,—he showed a repugnance to shed the blood
of criminals,—active, indefatigable, brave to a fault,—
toil, danger, and privation, were shared by him with
the meanest of his followers ; nay, he seemed eager to
engross them all himself. The cause of liberty in Por-
tugal would have early sunk under even one day's sus-
pension of his heroic efforts to protect it—efforts to
the exhausting severity of which his iron frame at
length gave way, and left his work to be completed by
different artists. Our intelligence of yesterday goes no
further than to state that Palmella had taken upon
himself the formation of the Government, with the ge-
neral good wishes of the people. The Duke of Pal-
mella s genius we believe to be better adapted to the
existing stage in the progress of affairs, than to any
previous one, since the beginning of the civil contest.
Crisis of actual violence and convulsion would hardly
suit this distinguished statesman and diplomatist, so
well, we conceive, as difficulties of another description.
Judgment, rather than daring, in his forte. He can
steer with skill and accuracy if the gale blow not too
strong. We trust that no party or personal jealousy

will prevent Carvalho from eo-operating with the new
Premier of Portugal, and thus deprive the country of
a vigorous and able Minister.—Times.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

A man named Wormersley, who has been for some time
in the
i employment of Mr. Clarke, the extensive warehouse-
man n the Minories, near Tower-bill, was brought before
Alderman Harmer, charged with having robbed his master
of a great number of waistcoats. It will be recollected
that but a few days ago a young man named Smith, who
had been confidentially employed by Mr. Clarke, was fully
committed for trial for plundering that gentleman of goods
to the value of upwards of 2501. The publicity given to
the particulars of that robbery led to the detection of a
system pursued by Wormersley, by which he had been for
a considerable time committing robberies on the premises in
which he had been confidentially employed.
Alderman HARMER ordered the prisoner to be remanded,
and a minute inquiry is about to take place in the ware-
house. The pawnbrokers are, it is believed, likely to lose
a good deal of money in this case, as well as in that which
Smith had endeavoured to compromise. In the last in-
stance one pawnbroker had lent money to the thief to the
amount of nearly 30/. upon goods which had been taken up
by means of fictitious orders by that young man.
Wormersley had the appearance of a very serious steady
man, and was dressed in the neat habiliments of a Quaker.
George Huggett, a gigantic fishmonger in the shrimp
line, was charged by Mr. Goldham, the Clerk of Billings-
gate Market, under the following circumstances :
Two inspectors, who had been appointed by the Fish-
mongers' Company, and whose appointment had been ap-
proved by the Court of Aldermen, were called upon by
Mr. Goldham, to whose exertions the public are greatly
indebted, to examine a large quantity of shrimps which
Huggett had for sale. The shrimps were such as would,
if displayed in the market, have been at once consigned to
destruction ; but the defendant knowing that fact kept
them in an obscure court, where he dealt them out, after
having washed away the bad smell, and rubbed them up
with salt. The inspects went to the cask in which they
were, but Huggett swore that, notwithstanding their autho-
rity they should not touch the fish, which was as fresh, he
said, as fish could be. Mr. Goldham in vain represented
to him what would be the consequence of his refusal to
permit the inspectors to examine the cask. The defendant
abused him most grossly. Mr. Goldham at last by force
seized a handful, and a more villanous sample he never got
hold of.

The inspectors and the clerk of the market deposed that
they were totally unfit for use.
Huggett said he was ready to swear a thousand times
over that the shrimps were a very delicious article. It was
true there was a bit of a disagreeable smell from them, but
then they had just come a long journey, and fish of all
kinds always stinked when they rode up to town, instead of
coming in their natural way. However, after a little nursing
they got all right.
ALDERMAN—BUt why did you refuse to let the inspec-
tors seize the fish ? You knew that they were about to
seize upon their own responsibility, and if the articles
proved to be good you would not have been a loser.
Mr. Goldham said that the defendant sent away the
shrimps afterwards in a dust-cart. If the sharpest eye was
not kept upon such fellows the poor would be constantly,
subjected to diseases, in consequence of the tricks of trans-
firming practised about the market.
Huggett called two witnesses to prove that the fish was
good ; but Alderman Harmer soon made a cross-examina-
tion tell upon them. They were ready to swear that all
the shrimps from which the sample was taken were most
unexceptionable ; but the Alderman put a few questions to
them, the answers to which not only testified that the article
was bad, but that, contrary to their advice, the defendant
had refused to submit to the seizure, and had brutally re-
sisted the inspectors.
Alderman HARMER said that the City must indict in
such a case, and that the officer was bound to act reso-
lutely on an occasion in which the reputation of the market
was so much affected.

Huggett's brother said that the defendant had threatened
him with violence, and accused him of being the informer.
Several cases of difficulty arose out of the provisions of
the New Poor Law, amongst which were the following :
The overseers of Bishopsgate stated a poor widow woman
belonging to that parish since the death of her husband
had been residing at a village in Lincolnshire with her
mother, the parish of Bishopsgate allowing her 2s. Gd. per
week. On the New Poor Law coming into operation they
did not feel justified in continuing this weekly payment,
and, in consequence, the poor woman was obliged to apply
for relief to the parish in which she was living. The parish
officers immediately passed her to London. The poor
woman, who has evidently seen much better days, here
said, " My Lord, I cannot bear the idea of myself and child
being confined in the workhouse ; if the parish will only
allow me 2s. a week I will manage and live on it with my
mother."

Mr. Alderman HARDIER (to the overseer)—How much
will it cost to maintain this poor woman and her infant in
the workhouse ? Overseer—At least 6s. per week, and we
are most anxious to pay her 2s. a week out of the house.
But what can we do ? If we make an allowance out of the
house the Poor Law Commissioners will not sanction it.

After a lengthened conversation on the inconvenience and
expense that must arise from some of the clauses of the Act,
Mr. Alderman HARMER said he had no; power to act,
but he would advise the overseers to send the poor woman
back to her mother, and allow her 2s. per week.
The overseers then said that there was another case of still
greater hardship, if possible, than the former one, which the
magistrate, perhaps, would best understand by the poor
man's own statement.

A decently-dressed man was called, who stated that he
belonged to Woolwich. His wife had been for eleven years
confined to a lunatic asylum, part of which expense was
paid by the parish, and part by himself. A short time since
she was considered quite recovered, and came home to live
with him. A few weeks only elapsed before she was again
in a most doplorable state of madness. He applied to the
overseers of Bishopsgate, where he was living, and they
gave him a letter to the overseers of Woolwich,
recommending them to make the same allowance
for the maintenance of his wife as formerly ; but they
positively refused to allow him one farthing, unless both he
and his wife went into the workhouse. This proposition he
could not agree to, as he was in a situation which he had
filled for twenty years, which not only kept himself comfort-
ably, but would enable him also to do something towards
the maintenance of his wife ; but he could not wholly sup-
port her.
Mr. Alderman HARMER said surely common humanity
would never force this man into a workhouse. It was clear
the overseers refused because they knew the man would not
consent to go in the house.
The overseers said they did not know how to act ; diffi-
culties of all kinds met them at every turn.

Q UEEN-SQ UARE.
Yesterday Edward Ward was brought up for further ex-
amination before Mr. GREGORIE, charged with obtaining a
number of copies of " Pigot's Directory" from various trades-
men and others under false pretences. _ _

It being generally known that the prisoner would be re-
examined yesterday, the office was crowded to excess by
persons who had charges to make against him.
Two charges were entered into—the first for obtaining a
copy of " Pigot's Directory" from Mr. Le Sannier, of Re-
gent-street ; and the second, for obtaining a copy from Mr.
Scaif, tailor, of Brook-street.

The prisoner declined saying anything at present.
The prisoner was then fully committed for trial, and the
parties were bound over to prosecute.
Mr. F. Linden, a scale-maker in Bishopsgate-street, and
Mr. Henry Mix, of the Fleur-de-lis in the same street, were
charged by a police constable with being drunk and furiously
driving a horse and cart, whereby the lives of his Majesty's
subjects were endangered.
Mr. GREGORIE fined the defendants ss, each for being
drunk, and they were discharged.
A chimney-sweep, named William Lucas, was charged
with breaking the chestnut-trees in Hyde Park.
The constable on the previous afternoon found the pri-
soner in one of the chestnut-trees, breaking the boughs to
get at the chestnuts, when he took him into custody.
Sweep—Please your Vorship, this here constable varn't
there ven I vos up in the tree.
The constable declared that he was there.

Sweep—Please your Vorship, a friend of mine says to
me, " Bill," says he, " there's lots of chestnuts in Hyde
Park, let us go and get some, for the policemen are getting
loads of 'em ?" " Very well," says I, "so ye vill, and
there vos hundreds of persons, constables and all, knock-
ing the trees about, so I thought it vos no harm votsum-
dever."

One of the Park-keepers • said that the trees were abso-
lutely torn to pieces.

.
'qr. WHITE ordered the prisoner to find sureties for-his
future good conduct.

W OR SHIP- STREET.
Yesterday Richard Wellbourne, a young man of very re-
spectable connections, and the apprentice of Mr. Joseph
Hodgson, a surgeon, in Brick-lane, Spitalfields, attended
with his solicitor, named May, before Messrs. BENETT and
TWYFORD, and a county Magistrate, for the purpose of
having his indentures cancelled.

It will be remembered that yesterday week the young
man Wellbourne was charged before Mr. Twyford with
most outrageous and extraordinary conduct towards Mrs.
Hodgson, the wife of his master.
On the case being called on yesterday Mr. Hodgson in-
formed the Magistrates that he had received a letter from
his apprentice's mother, who resided at Doncaster, and it

was her wish, in consequence of the misconduct of her son,
for the indentures to be cancelled.
After the indentures had been cancelled,
Mr. Hodgson applied to the Magistrates to hold Well-
bourne to bail, as he considered the life of Mrs. Hodgson
in great danger by his passionate temper.
The Magistrates were of opinion. that under all the cir-
cumstances they were justified in calling upon Wellbourne
to find good bail as a security for his keeping the peace to-
wards Mr. and Mrs. Hodgson.
Wellbourne—Will you allow rae., your Lordships, to
show how Hodgson has been in the habit of thrashing his
wife ? He has with his violence put my jawbone out of
joint ; but, however, I have got a lock of his wife's hair.
Mr. BENETT had nothing to do with the case, and di-
rected him not to proceed.
Mr. May (the solicitor) wished to know whether the
pistols at present retained by Peaise, the inspector, were
not to be given up to his client, as they belonged to him ?

The Ma-gistrates—Certainly not.
Wellbourne, whose friends reside at Doncaster, was in
consequence of not being prepared with bail given into the
custody of Tilt the gaoler.
Sergeant M‘William of the 11 division of police, in-
formed Mr. Twyford that the overseers of Bethnal-green
parish had taken the poor woman. Amelia Jones, who was
charged on the preceding day with having been found in a
state of destitution, into the workhouse until inquiries could
be made into her case.