The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-30 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We this day, agreeably to promise, give the corres.-
pondenee between the key. Thomas Lyons, curate at
Drung, and the Beresfords, respecting the treatment
of Mr. Lyons by that hopeful son of the Church, the
Rev. Marcus G. Beresford, who has cut so conspi-

cuous a figure of late in the annals of the Church Mili-
tant. The Dublin Evening Post announces a con-
tinuation of the correspondence ; but enough has been
published to give to English readers a tolerable idea
of the working of Church and State in Ireland. In the
speech delivered by the Rev. Marcus Beresford at

tavan, he says—
" I believe that when our claims are fairly set before the Protes-
tant people of England, that it will be found there is a glorious
stream of Protestant sympathy flowing in their hearts for their
persecuted brethren in this country. I am convinced they
never will permit us to be trampled and trodden under foot
merely because we are Protestants like themselves. When
interests and community of sentiment unite us, should we not
stand forward, and say to the men of England,, our cause is
your cause, our interests are your interests, and our God is
your God.—( Cheers, and " Whoo, whoo'). Then, if you
have the hearts of men, and the hands of men, and not of
w•men, come over and help us.—( Cheers, and " Whoo,
whoo.") Stand forth as your fathers have done before you,
and defend the Protestant Church, the Protestant religion,
and the Protestant people of Ireland."

area indebted for this cause to the abandonment of
Lords Winchilsea and Roden.—Morning Chronicle.
Among the sinecure offices the immediate abolition
of which is to be recommended by the Parliamentary
Committee appointed to report upon such offices, we
observe that of " Physician to the State." Before
this report appeared we were not aware that the State
or body politic was in so healthful and sound a con-
dition that the office of its physician must necessarily
be a sinecure. We' thought, on the contrary, that
the distempers of the State were so grievous and com-
plicated as to be sufficient to give ample employment
to some scores of physicians. We know, indeed, and
the country knows to its cost, that all sorts of quacks
have of late years undertaken to cure the State of its
distempers by various nostrums which have only ag-
aravated the disease they were prescribed to cure, as
infallibly as other quack medicines cure all incurable
'distempers of the body-natural. If, then, the regular
and official physician of the State, whoever he is, has
nothing to do, it is not because he has nothing to do,
but because he prefers his ease to his duty, like some
of those stall-fed theologians of the establishment who,
while they repose upon velvet cushions and under
purple canopies, permit false shepherds to get among
the flock, and to seduce them from the green pastures of
the church into barren moors and thorny valleys of dis-
sent. What was the State physician doing when that
grand nostrum of quackery, Peel's Currency Bill,
was prescribed as an infallible remedy for the acute
sufferings of the body politic some fifteen years ago ?
Alack and well-a-day ! he must have been as fast
asleep as Argus himself, when the caduceus of that
nimble god (Mercury) sealed up his eye-lids for the
worst of purposes. Peel's prescription, according to
the account of its wonderful virtues, given by the poli-
tical doctor whose name it, bears, and attested by the
Jew and political economist quacks called into consul-
tation—Ricardo, Huskisson, and -Co., with many of
the Whig nostrum-mongers—it was to surpass all
other specifics applied to the distempers of the State,
as much as • the trick of the bottle conjuror excelled
those of all other conjurors. Indeed the most eloquent
of the currency-quacks announced that it would realise
that condition of political beatitude, in which " a
guinea would be found in the pocket of every peasant
in England, and a fowl in his pot." How true this
announcement was we may infer from the Malthusian
Poor Law Bill, which is to create parochial bastiles
throughout all England; to " preserve the estates of
the Lords" from the poverty of the people ! Our
nostrum-mongers are indeed many, all although the
office of State physician be a sinecure. The quack
nostrum for Ireland, designated by Wellington,
Peel, and Co., the " panacea" and the " healing
measure," was about as efficacious in tranquillising
that country as the Currency Bill was in bring-
ing prosperity to England. By the stoppage of
the repeal agitator's Irish Tithe Bill in the House of
Lords, another quack nostrum was prevented from
applying its drastic force to exasperate, under pretence
of soothing, the intestinal commotions of that distem-
pered portion of the State. From the Whig political
economists the .Huskissonian Tories borrowed the
more deadly and destructive nostrum which they call
" free trade," which fills our workhouses and gaols
with starving artisans, while it feeds and clothes the
foreigner, who laughs at our folly, and rejoices that
such addle-headed " philosophers" as our Poulett
Thomson, et id genus omne, flourish in the high places
of a nation, which formerly gave birth to the most
vigorous-minded statesmen that ever raised a small
country into a great and powerful empire. The grand
nostrum of the last Session of Parliament—almost its
only one, is the Central Bashaw Bill, prescribed by
the Doctors Althorp, Brougham, and Co., assisted by
the theological charity of the Bishop of London, not
to be found in Christ's sermon on the mount, and the
petticoat-philosophy of Miss Martineau, only to be
found where Christianity is lost—where its mercies are
crushed beneath the cruel pedantries of a false science.
In the extravagant praise of this nostrum which has
recently been poured forth, we detect the author of
this quack remedy, who would, forsooth, remove the
discontent and irritation of poverty by clapping a per-
petual blister on the poor of England.—Morning
Herald.
The best way of maintaining the respect of the ma-
gistracy is to make it evident that removal is the cer-
tain consequence of any gross misconduct showing an
unfitness for the administration of justice. The credit
of the body of the magistracy is best upheld by proving
that unworthy members are not allowed to belong to it.
The weakest and the falsest policy is to protect scan-
dalous abuses of authority ; 'for the natural inference
is, that what is permitted to one is or will be the prac-
tice of many. On the other hand, when the name
of a magistrate is struck out of the commission of the
peace for flagrant misconduct, it is properly supposed
that those who remain in it are untainted with the
fault for which he has been dismissed. The greatest
iustice to the sound and the main part of the
Magistracy, is an undue indulgence to men want-
ing the essential qualifications for their office. For
errors of judgment a liberal allowance must and will
be made, but there should be no toleration of passion
and violence, and the instant the magistrate appears in
the character of the man of outrage he should be put
away from the bench. Much to its credit, Govern-
ment removed a Devonshire Magistrate -from the com-
mission of the peace for a brutal assault, which his
brother Justices had thought sufficiently punished with
a fine of 51. We observe a case in Ireland which can-
not rest where it does without sore scandal to the ad-
ministration of justice. Mr. Cross, a Cork Magistrate,
being tithe-agent of the Rev. W. Beresford Rector of
Iniscarra, with a composition of 1,050/. a-year, went
into a field for the purpose of making a survey, with a
number of viewers and drivers, who trampled down the
young corn. The farmer's son having complained of the
mischief, Mr. Cross said that as a Magistrate he could
do what he pleased, and the young man havingpersisted
in his remonstrances, Mr. Cross, according to the ac-
count before us, " ran at him, pushed him off the ditch
on which he was standing, and said he was his prisoner,
and called on his men to handcuff him. About ten
men of his immediately came up, and four or five of
theni seized young 0 Brien, and held him for Mr.
Cross, who endeavoured with all his strength to force
the handcuffs on him, but did not succeed, O'Brien
being a powerful young man, and not at all disposed
to be made a prisoner of in such a cause. Mr. Cross
summoned the young man for obstruction of duty, but
the complaint was dismissed. Mr. CroSs was, in turn,
indicted for an assault, found guilty, sentenced to a
month's imprisonment, and to pay a fine of 101. to the
King. He was then sent prisoner to the county gaol."
The question is, whether a man lying in gaol for such
an outrage committed in his magisterial character, to
which he expressly referred in warrant of what he was
doing, ought to be continued one hour in the commis-
sion of the peace? Is this the sort of example for teach-
ing a respect for the laws in a country where to incul-
cate that lesson is of such vital importance ? Not a word
is to be said in this case against the punishment awarded
by the Court ; the presiding barrister has done his
duty, but it remains for the Government to do
theirs. The individual guilty of such conduct has
shown himself unfit to be trusted with the authority
which has been committed to his charge, and though
the punishment of his offence is sufficiet, there is no
magic in it which can give him the qualifications of
temper and propriety of bearing in which he has diq-.
covered himself to be so lamentably wanting. A gaol
is not the fitting school of magistrates, nor
ca- th
of self-control, the first requisite in those wahloheahveabtiot
control others, be acquired in a mo'nth's imprisonment.
But it is enough that confidence
and' respect- for a ma-
gistrate convicted and gaol-bo.und for a ruffianly out-
rage mu§t be gone : and in. Ireland it is, above all
things, important to guara
the administration of jus-
tice from suspicion contempt, and to teach the
peopledne
if
-with reverence, which cannot be
it
e suffered to retain authority after
tiondl
individuals
to
la a r
having given the mc,st notorious and disgraceful evi-
dence of their unfitness for it.— Times.

When a man is called on to render assistance to an
other, common prudence dictates that he should know
something • of the person for whom his assistance is
asked. The people of England, after reading the cor-
respondence between the Beresfords and the Rev. Tho-
mas Lyons (an Englishman) will not, we suspect, feel
much flattered by being told by the Vicar General of
Kilmore, and Vicar of Drung and Lara, " we are Pro-
testants like themselves." God forbid that there should
be many Protestants in this country like the Rev. Mar
cus G. Beresford I We trust that few men are to be
found in any country capable of turning off a poor cu-
rate at a day's notice, without even an allegation of
misconduct, and of trumping up a charge for potatoe-
ground, as a set-off against his month's salary. Yet
this is not an isolated case. The Beresford family
(Archbishop of Armagh and Bishop of Kilmore) give
their countenance to Marcus, and of course, whatever
blame attaches to his conduct must be shared by these
two Prelates. These are the men who influenced the de-
cision of the House of Lords regarding the Irish
Church. These are the men who have put themselves
forward at meetings as the peculiar champions of the
Irish Church. Their character is the character of the
Irish Church. Will any man lay his hand to his
heart and say that such a Church does not merit its
fate ? Will any man say that in the sacred writings
there is any countenance for such conduct as that
of which we have the details in this correspondence ?
Will any man who has read the Gospels say that
the Church of Ireland has any, title to be called a
Church of Christ ? The Rev. Mr. Boyton's appeal
to the gentry of Ireland we can understand. He told
them that meii entered the Church, not because they
cared for the souls of the people, but because they
wished to live genteelly ; and that without the Church
it would be impossible for the resident grentry
to provide for their younger children. To provide
genteelly for a branch of the Beresfords an 1,8001. vi-
carage may not be deemed too much, and the less that
is given to the Curate who does the work, the more
there will be for the aristocratical sinecurist. Unfor-
tunately, what benefits the aristocracy does not benefit
the people. The Church of Ireland is a Church for
the Clergy only. It is an admirable Church for the
higher ranks, if the people would only Consent to pay
a Clergy from whom they derive no benefit. Much
pay and little work is what all worldly-minded men
court, and we have no doubt that the Protestant Church
of Ireland, as it lost in the regard of the people, gained
proportionably in the regard of the gentry. But in
striving for any given excellence there is a danger of
doing too much. It has been observed of the breeders
of fine sheep, that they pushed their experiments so
far that the animals ceased to breed at all. The
foundation of a church in popular regard may be too
much narrowed. If the people be altogether excluded from
participating in the benefit of one establishment, it may
be in risk of overthrow. Hence we find in Ireland a most
ardent attachment to the Church on the part of the
Beresfords and others circumstanced like them ; but
either hatred or indifference to it on the part of the
people. The call to the Protestants of England will
receive for answer—why have you not Protestants of
your own to defend you ? You have neglected the
people ; you thought only of good livings and little
Labour ; you connected livings to livings till for scores
of miles a church was not td be seen ; and having
taken such pains to show how useless you were, you
ought not now to complain if a Reformed Parliament
evinces a disposition to dispense with clergymen who
can so easily dispense with flocks. The Catholic
Church has never, since the Reformation at least, been
in any country in so inefficient a state as that which is
called the Protestant Church of Ireland. Care is
always taken that the people shall have access to
priests ; and the gentry are never allowed to treat
the working clergy as few gentlemen would treat their
menials. Before the French revolution the working cler-
gyman of a parish was always secured in a portion
congrue,a certain income of which he could not be de-
prived. But the Protestant Church of England and
.Ireland abounds far more with abuses than any Ca-
tholic Church. The Catholics have abolished plurali-
ties. In Ireland, as we have said, parish has been
added to parish, till unions may be considered the rule;
and in England, the most scandalous inequalities have
been continued to our times, to afford a pretext for
pluralities. In every other Church but that of Ireland
some regard has been paid to the language of the na-
tives. The Danish Government suffers no clergyman
to minister to the Laplanders who cannot preach to
them in their language. The Scotch Church will not
suffer a clergyman to be placed in a Highland parish
who cannot speak the Irish or Gaelic language. But
the Protestant Church of Ireland cares for nothing
but the genteel incomes. Its days are therefore num-
bered. We defy human ingenuity to preserve much
longer a Church, the very existence of which is a libel
on the Gospel, of which it abuses the name.
The present Administration, by remedying some of its
more glaring abuses, are rendering it less obnoxious to
the people. But the—time for reform has gone by.
We have had first, second, and third reformations ;
but all in vain. If ever Protestantism gains a footing
in Ireland, it must be through other means than the
Church. When the Rev. Marcus Beresford raved
about extirpating the bloody Papists, the language na-
turally enough startled the people of England, ac-
customed as they are to Irish abuses. But the exhi-
bition of the gentlemen in this correspondence, will
furnish a key to his speeches. The Dublin Evening
Post, a comparatively mild and temperate journal, is
unable to restrain its indignation at the conduct of the
Beresfords. Speaking of the calls upon the people
of England to stand forth with arms in their hands in
defence of an establishment administered as it is in the
diocese of Kilmore, the Editor says—
,. Sympathy from England 1 For what ?
" Is it for the oppression of an Englishman ?
" Is it for the contumely with which an English gentleman
was treated by Mark Beresford, and his Bishop Father ?
" Sympathy 1 Is it for that state of things which puts a
clergyman of the Church of England in a condition more help-
less than that of a scullion in the bishop's kitchen ?
" Is it to enable the Beresfords throughout this broad island
to kick their curates about like dogs—to pay them 6/. a month
wages for doing their business, and to charge them 71. 10s. an
acre for the scrap of land in which to plant their potatoes—is
it for this that Mark Beresford is to claim the sympathy of the
English people ?
." Is the introduction of a common ruffian , with whom most
certainly, a gentleman's upper servant would not corps,, to a
public assembly, such as it was, with a vulgar flourish and a
stupid rhyme—is putting such a fellow forth as a hero to the
people of England a mode by which their sympathies can be
• excited in favour of an establishment which can witness such
exhibitions, and the chiefs of which can applaud them—is this
the mode of awakening the Protestant mind of England?"
The people of England are too sincerely religious
to wish to continue a state of things deeply injurious
to religion. The Peers whO threw out the Irish Tithe
Bill in the hope that the cOnsequence would be exten-
sive disorder and bloodshed in Ireland, must now feel
mortified that the result has not corresponded with
their wishes, so that they have the reputation for in-
tending mischief without having been able to' Succeed
in it. We are willing to believe that the evidence of
their blunder has made them ashamed, and that we

APPEARANCES.—Many false things have more
appearance of truth than things that be most true.--Latimer
THE OLDHAM RIOTERS.—The convicts sentenced
no transportation were removed from Lancaster, last week, to
Chatham. The Lancaster Gazette says that the contractor
dared not venture to convey them through Manceshter, lest a
rescue might ite attempted, but took them by a citcuitous route,
avoiding the manufacturing districts.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1834

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

Mr. Street, the-Solicitor, applied to the Lord Mayor for
an order to compel Mr. Stephen Underwood, a respectable
citizen, to pay to the parish of Yelden, in Norfolk, the sum
of 2s. 6d. a week for the support of his father, who is in
the workhouse at that place, and unable from infirmities to
work.

Mr. Hobler, jun., for the defendant, who was•not present,
stated that Mr. Underwood, jun., had already been at con-
siderable expence for his father, who had thought proper to
marry a second wife and get another family, although not
capable of maintaining them. The son, who was thus
called upon by the parish, had not only with credit to him-
self brought up a family of thirteen children of his own, but
actually had defrayed the expenses of the maintenance of
his half brothers and sisters, and he had been so severe a
loser by bad debts that he could not afford to pay the
amount demanded. In fact the parish ought not to make
any application of the kind, as the son was constantly con-
tributing to the support of his father by sending him pre-
sents. Indeed the amount it cost the son might be said to
he within 6d. a week of that required by the parish.

The LORD MAYOR said the question whether a son was
to afford from his earnings half-a-crown a week to keep
alive an aged and feeble father was one of rather a revolt-
ing description. He hoped that the objection would not be
prsisted in ; but perhaps it was mooted in order to ascer-
tain the efficacy of the law.
Mr. Street said that there was no ground for stating that
Mr. Underwood, jun., performed the duty of contributing
to the support of his father. The pecuniary condition of
Cie son was beyond all doubt such as would enable him to
give that pittance, placinc, out of consideration the common
dictates of nature and humanity, which generally set aside
any appeal to the parochial funds. The 43d of Elizabeth, than
which a more salutary statute never was made, operated to
correct the disinclination in some children to recognize the
obligation to assist a father, and it-was to be lamented that
it became necessary to refer to such an authority on this.
occasion.

The LORD MAYon to. (Mr. Hoblet, jun.)—Your client
will allow the half-crown to get bread for his father. Come
I know he will.

Mr. Hobler, jun.—l am instructed, my Lord, to resist
the demand. I submit that the clause of the 43d of Eliza-
beth is rendered of no avail, as far as regards the obliga-
tion of child to support parent by the new Poor Law Act.
The clause to which Mr. nobler had alluded is the
56th, and is as follows :
" And be it further enacted, that, from and after the pass-

a contravention of one 'of the by-laws Of the Company,
which enacts that any person who hawks or, sells any article
in the market without having paid the legal toll to the Com-
pany, it shall be lawful to apprehend the parties so offend-
ing, dispose of the goods, and take the offender or offenders
before a magistrate, there to be punished by imprisonment.
Mr. HALLS inquired under what section of the Act of
Parliament it was that. the Company were authorised to
make such a by-law ?
On the clause in question being shown to the Magistrate,
he said that the company had not, in his opinion, any autho-
rity to make such a by-law. The Act gave them the power
to make by-laws to govern all persons connected with the
market, and none other. The present defendants were not
in any way connected with the market, and therefore the
by-law could not affect them.
The Magistrate directed the defendants to be discharged.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
A case of importance to the public occurred yesterday
at this office, affecting the nuisance occasioned by the om-
nibuses at the Regent's-circus.
A nian who was appointed timekeeper to a certain body
of omnibus proprietors summoned an " interloper" on the
road,. named Newman, for obstruction.
It appeared that the new omnibus proprietor had not paid
over certain dues exacted by the " select," and it was deter-
mined to run him off the road."

Mr. CHAMBERS said it was a complaint ,which, under
such circumstances, he should immediately dismiss. He
had heard enough to induce .him to give orders that omni-
buses should not stop there at all, save to sit clown or take
up if they were hailed. Only the actual time required for
doing so should be allowed. They should not ply there for
hire, to the annoyance of both the public and the trades-
men. He then directed the superintendent of the division
to place sufficient force on the spot, and to bring any party
before him who stopped one second longer than the time
required for taking up when they were hailed or setting
down.

Several of the proprietors were in the office, who did not
appear to relish the decision.
Patrick Flanagan, a cabdriver, was charged with being
drunk, and wilfully driving his vehicle against another, by
which both were upset, and a gentleman, named Olivere,
residing in Pall-mall, thrown out and bruised.
Mr. CHAMBERS expressed his indignation at such con-
duct, and convicted the fellow in the highest penalty, bi.,
or two months' hard labour in default.

A little bild-headed " wee mannie," named Cole, piping
hot from the " land o' cakes," was charged with having
been found domiciled in a dung-cart the overnight.
Mr. CHAMBERS—What are you ?—Defendant—l'm an
auctioneer, mon. I'm just the noo frae Edinbree.
How came ye to be found sleeping in a cart ?-1 hadn'a
ony siller ye ken to get a bed wi: and being sair fatigued, I
just thocht I wad tak an hoor or twa's sleep in the keart.
What did you leave Scotland, for ?—To git news o' my
son, wha's in the East Ingies, and may be to find an auld
friend.

ing of this Act, all relief given to or on account of the wife,
or to or on account of any child or children under the age of
sixteen, not being blind, or deaf, or dumb, shall be considered
as given to the husba.,nd of such wife or the father of such child
or children, as the case may be ; and any relief given to or on
account of any child or children under the age of sixteen of
any widow shall be considered as given to such widow. Pro-
vided always, that nothing herein contained shall discharge the
father and grandfather, mother and grandmother, from their
liability to relieve and maintain such poor child in pursuance
of the provisions of a certain Act of Parliament passed in the
forty-third year of the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth, en-
titled An Act for the Relief of the Poor.' "
Mr. Street said that the clause in Elizabeth's Act was
not touched by the new Poor Law Bill. It was, he sub-
mitted, quite impossible that so just a piece of legislation
as that which made a son who had the means to prevent
his parent from being a burthen upon the parish should be
aimed at by the new Bill. Common sense directed that, if
under circumstances of distress and difficulty, the parent
was obliged to support the child, the child should upon cer-
tain occasions be compelled to return the compliment. The
New Poor Law said not a word about the latter. obligation.
Mr. Hobler, junior, said it appeared to him that the
omission of that obligation which formed so conspicuous a
part of the Act of Elizabeth showed that the new Bill
meant that it should no longer exist. By the new Act the
parent was obliged to support the distressed child, but the
child was not obliged to support the distressed parent.
The LORD MAYOR—I hope it will be unnecessary to go
any further with the matter. Mr. Underwood ought to
pay the half-crown a week to keep his father alive ; the
parish will pay the rest. I trust it will be done.
Mr. Street said that the parish already paid to the aged
and crippled and half-naked father and mother the sum of
five shillings a week, and what the old man received from
his son was net worth mention.
The parish officer, having been called upon by Mr.
Street, stated that the parish gave five shillings a week to
old Mr. Underwood, who always declared that his son's
contributions were indeed very scanty—a pair of shoes now
and then, or so.
Mr. Street hoped that the expenses would not in this
case be accumulated upon the parish, and declared that he
considered himself bound to press for the trifle demanded
by the parish.
Mr. Hobler—Then I submit an objection. One Magis-
trate is not empowered to act, so that your application falls
to the ground. •
The LORD MAYOR admitted that he could not act under
the circumstances, but expressed a sincere hope that the
question would never come before him again. If, however,
it did he should know how to deal with it.
A pensioner upon the Ironmongers' Company, who is
allowed 81. a year, complained to the Lord Mayor that he
had been refused assistance by his parish, although he paid
over to them that sum in consideration of parochial relief.
The LORD MAYOR sent for the overseers, and when they
expressed astonishment -at the pauper's declaration that he
paid them his pension,
The complainant said it was true that he had missed the
last quarter's payment.
The LORD MAYOR—What became of it ? Complainant
—Why, my Lord, I went into Rowland Hill's chapel to
pray, and somebody whipped it out of my pocket, I suppose.
The LORD MAYOR—You must have been very careless.
How could any body have taken the money from you ?
Complainant—Why, I kept it in my waistcoat pocket, and
took my waistcoat off.
The LORD MAYOR—TO pray more fervently, I suppose?
Complainant—l always find a man's more at liberty to do
it when his waistcoat's off. We often do it there.
The parish officers said that the pauper was a fellow so
fond of drink that the moment he got any money he turned
it into gin, and then it was a matter of indifference to him
whether he went to sleep either in a chapel or a pigstye.
Work could be got for him, but the glass was sure to inter-
fere with the first five minutes.
The LORD MAYOR said that he did not know what to do
with such a fellow ; but recommended the officers to take
him into the workhouse, and to deal out to him a diet ac-
cording to the strictest regulations of the Temperance So-
ciety.

Do you know anybody in London ?—Oh, ay ; I ken a
mon o' the name o' Allan, a vary respectable boddy.
What is he ?—He's a manufacturer.
Of what ?—Spunks, ye ken ; what ye ca' hereaboot
matches.

QUEEN-SQUA.RE.
A young. man, named Edward Ward, was charged with
obtaining several copies of " Pigott's General Directory "
from various tradesmen under false pretences :
It appeared that some time back the prisoner had been
in the employ of the publishers of " Pigotes Directory."
Latterly he had been in the habit of calling at the houses of
different tradesmen, who he was aware took a copy, and
stating that he had been sent by the publishers for the copy
back, as there was some material error in it which they
wished to correct. The copy in almost every instance was
given up to him to be altered, when he immediately took
the book to a pawnbroker's and pledged it for a few shil-
lings. One of the tradesmen he had duped in this manner
by chance met him in the Strand, and gave him into the
custody of a police constable, who took him to the station-
house.

There were a number of other similar charges against
him, and he was remanded for further examination, to give
time for the various prosecutors and witnesses to attend.

A manufacturer of matches, is he ? What do you mean
to do here without money ?—Gang back till Edinbree as
soon's I can.

BO W-STREET.

Yesterday a young man named Willis, the driver of the
cabriolet No. 952, appeared upon summons to answer the
complaint of Digby, the common informer, for having, on
the 16th instant, unlawfully refused to convey him, the said
Digby, from St. Clement's Church, Strand, to the public
office, Bow-street.

Digby, who had a witness with him, said that on the
day mentioned he and a friend called the defendant from
the stand at St. Clement's Church, and, having got into
the cab, ordered him to drive to Bow-street Office. He
got upon the seat and took the reins and whip, and was
about to drive off when he turned round and looked into
his cabriolet with a sort of stare, and said, " I'll be - if
I drive an inch." Witness asked why, and the answer was,
" F./eCause you are a common informer, and I know you
want to play me a trick." He then became insolent, and
got a crowd about witness and his friend, and they were
abused and insulted. They then got out of the cab and
walked on.

The MAGISTRATE—Then you did not hire the cab for
the sake of speed exactly ?—Digby admitted that he did not.
The defendant, in answer to the charge, said it was a
mere trick of Digby's to obtain a penalty. He would put
it to his Worship whether Mister Digby could want a ride
from St. Clement's Church to Bow-street, about half a
quarter of a mile ? The fact was that the complainant got
into his cabriolet, and, discovering who he was, he refused
to drive him. Some words took place, and Digby refused
to leave the cab, until defendant threatened to charge him
for lime if he didn't get out. He then left the vehicle,
swearing he would summon hini (defendant).
:'
The Magistrate said 'the defe;;Aant had not made out
any thing like a justification for his co
in the penalty of 205., and 10s. 6d. costs.
latter, on the complaint of the master,dviuc
The master of the defendant paid. the,pena,
;duct, fined
one month to the House of Correction f
o,ar
rnbeih:d misbehaviour'
ohurim
in his calling."

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4 for

What, go " bock again," before you get something into
your pockets ? No, no ; lam afraid you come here to
beg.—Na, na ; I never beggit a bawbec in a' my life. I'm
aboon sic wark ;—no, but if ony kind boddy wad lend me
a trifle o'siller, I wadna be the waur on't.
Well, shall I give you a shilling out of the poor-box?—
(briskly) Eh, mon, I'd tak it unto' kind o'ye.
The shilling was handed to the auctioneer, and he was
" gone" in a moment.

The beadle of the new Hungerford Market yesterday
morning brought four lads before Mr HALLS, charged with