The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-16 00:00:00

cottages, and to attempt any thing like an equalization
of abodes seems naturally to them the most impolitic
thing conceivable. It is clear that the idea of the super-
abundant wealth of the superior clergy has never entered
the head of ourßishop. His notion of reform would be little
more than the building of about 1,000 new churches, and
the appointment of twice as many new ministers. His
Lordship says, " We want more churches and more
clergymen ;" and, to give some poor notion of the
extent of the want, he states that for the eastern and
north-eastern districts of the metropolis there is an
actual deficiency of 99 churches and 210 ministers !
We extract the calculation, in which it will be observed
the existence of a Dissenter is not supposed
"We want more churches and more clergymen. Take an
instance of this. In the eastern and north-eastern districts of
the metropolis there are 10 parishes, containing together a
population of 353,460 persons. In these parishes there are
18 churches and chapels, served by 24 incumbents and curates,
the average being not quite one church or chapel for every
19,000 souls, and one clergyman for every 14,000. Whereas,
allowing a church and two clergymen for every 3,000 persons,
there ought to be 117 churches, and 234 clergymen ; so that
there is an actual deficiency of 99 churches and 210 ministers
in that one part of a single diocess."— Times.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

The proprietor of a ,l3lackwallo—mnilTus was summoned
before the Loan MAYOR under the following circum-
stances :

A gentleman stated that he and three of his family some
days ago, upon arriving at Blackwall in a steamer, got into
an omnibus and were driven to the Bank. Their luggage
did not reach 100 lbs., and they were charged 12s, which
the conductor insisted upon being paid.
The proprietor of the omnibus had received from his
conductor no more than ten shillings, and that the conduc-
tor assured him that the weight of the luggage was up-
wards of 3001bs.

The LORD MAYOR—Then you have been cheated by
your conductor and driver, who were not satisfied with
having imposed upon this gentleman ?
The Proprietor—No doubt of it ; that is often the case.
I discharged the conductor and driver for not having come
to meet the first summons of this gentleman ; but in a few
days they will 'probably be taken into the service of some
other owner, and this matter will be looked over.
The Loan MAYOR said that if the owner took care to
cause the driver and conductor to be brought before him
satisfaction should be rendered.
The proprietor paid the overcharge and the expenses
which were caused by the misconduct of his servants, but
the Lord Mayor remitted the penalty.
A cabman was charged with having overcharged a gen-
tleman 6d. in a fare.

The cabman had been cheated of sixpences hundreds of
times by gentlemen, and he really considered that he ought
to ask for sixpence more on this occasion for fear he should
get sixpence less. The gentleman happened to give him all
he asked, and disappeared before he had time to tell him
the mistake.—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAvon—l suppose you looked about for him?
Cabman—Look for him, please your Lordship ! Upon my
honour I drove up and down Cheapside for half an hour
looking for him.

A Policeman--Yes, but you were touting for a fare a
the time.

The LORD MAYOR—Pay the expenses of tfie summons
and let me not see you again.

GUILDHALL.
Yesterday a man named James Bolton was brought be-
fore Mr. Alderman COPELAND, to answer the complaint of
the overseers of Cripplegate for neglecting to maintain his
family, he being able to do so.
Mr. Brake, the overseer, stated that the defendant was
obstinate in refusing to support his two children, and he
had been committed to Bridewell for three months in 1830,
and in 1831 for six months, without bringing him to his
duty. Since his last discharge from gaol he had suffered an
arrear of upwards of 211. to accrue, and the parochial of-
ficers now wished to prosecute him to the utmost, with a
view to having him transported for the offence.
Mr. Bolton asked why his wife had not been produced
before the Magistrate ? Mr. Brake said he did not know
where to find her. He had endeavoured to trace her.
Mr. Bolton said if she had been present he could have
shown that she had been guilty of adultery, and that he
was not liable to maintain the children.
Mr. Brake said if he could establish what he asserted it
would not alter his liability to keep the children. Mr. B.
proceeded to prove the debt now due to the parish, and
Mr. Symonds, from the Vestry Clerk's office, produced re-
cords of the prisoner's previous conviction.
Mr. Alderman COPELAND asked him what he had to say
so the charge ? Mr. Bolton said he had considered that he
was not liable to keep the children, but he was ready to give
the parish 71. as a composition for their claim, and to keep
up his payments in future, or take the children.
Mr. Brake would not accept this sum. He would rather
see the prisoner transported as an example to other run-
away fathers.

Mr. Bolton then begged for time to find out his wife and
show the validity of his plea, which
Mr. Alderman COPELAND readily agreed to allow him,
and he was remanded to a future day.

QUEEN-SQUARE.
Yesterday Benjamin Walker, a painter, and member of
the Trades' Unions, late in the employ of Messrs. Bennett
and Hunt, builders, of the Horseferry-road, Westminster,
was charged on a warrant with assaulting John Smith, by
trade a smith, and not a member of the Union.
Mr. Shuter, solicitor, of Milbank, attended to conduct
the prosecution. The prisoner was one of the party of
Unionists who on Saturday week last followed Messrs.
Bennett and Hunt's workmen, as they left the pay-table,
Over Westminster-bridge, when the men were threatened
and pelted with oyster-shells, and several of them were as-
saulted in the Westminster-road. One man last week, it
will be remembered, was fined .5/., and to find sureties to
keep the peace for six months.
The evidence in this ease went to prove that the pri-
soner was one of the party ; that he called them knob-
sticks for signing the document, and that he said they
ought to have their lives taken for so doing ; and that
for the two previous Saturday nights his conduct had been
the same.

Several witnesses were examined ; but although it was
proved that the prisoner had held up his fist and threatened
the complainant, yet the mob and confusion were so great
that none of the witnesses could actually swear that he was
the man that committed the offence.
The Magistrates, Messrs. GREGORIE and BURRELL, said
that under these circumstances they could not proceed fur-
ther upoti the charge of assault, but proceedings might
be taken against the prisoner under another Act of Par-
liament.

After some conversation Mr. Shuter said that he should
proceed against the prisoner under the Act of Parliament
of the 6th Geo. IV., c. 129, which enacted that if any
person used threatening or violent language to any workman
to intimidate him from working, the Magistrates had the
power of committing such offender for three months to the
House of Correction, and to be kept to hard labour.
The prisoner was then discharged for the assault, and a
summons was granted against him to answer the complaint
under the 6th Geo. IV.

MORE INTIMIDATION.—John 111'Quin, a stonemason,
and member of the Trades' Union, late in the employ of
Mr. Cubitt, the builder, was brought up on a warrant by
Dawson the officer, charged with assaulting Robert Cross,
also a stogie-mason, now in the employ of Mr. Cubitt.
The circumstances were these :—The Complainant had
belongekto the Trades' Union, but he at last thought it
better toAgn the masters' document and get into work, as
he had aiarge family. He was immediately employed, and
was put to work at Kensington Palace. Last Thursday
evening, as he was returning home from work with some
otheimen, they were met by the prisoner and others he-
longing to the Union, who grossly abused them for signing
the masters document, and the prisoner at last kicked him.
Previous to the case being called upon the prisoner was
very anxious to settle the matter, and by the intervention
of some friends it was agreed that the prisoner should pay
the complainant a sovereign and the expenses as a compen-
sation, and they both shook hands and were friends.

WORSHIP-STREET.
Yesterday Charles Gray, an elderly man, was brought
before Messrs. BROUGHTON and TWYFORD, charged with
having obtained under false pretences a horse and chaise,
valued at 44/., and on various other charges of swindling
on a very extensive scale. The office was thronged to ex-
cess, principally with fashionable tradespeople from the west
end of the town, who attended to prefer charges against
the prisoner and his confederates.—The prisoner was re-
manded till Saturday next. •

CHESTER, SEPT. 10.—The respite for the assas-
sins of Mr. Ashton expires on the 18th inst. Nothing official
has yet been received here respecting the execution. The
question between the county palatine and the city as to who
shall see execution done remains exactly in statu quo; and, as
most of the Ministers are out of town, it is likely that a further
respite will be sent from the Home Office, and highly proba-
ble that the knotty point in despute will not be finally settled
until the meeting of Parliament. The culprits cannot under-
stand the cause of their execution being delayed, and believe
it is in the hope of inducing them to make some disclosures to
implicate the original instigators of the murder ; they are,
therefore, the more sullen and reserved in their intercourse
with those necessarily in attendance upon them. Nothing is
hoped for from them.