The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-05 00:00:00

G UIL f)H AL L.

Yesterday an elegantly attired young woman, who
gave her name Ann lons, was brought before Mr.

Mr. CONANT directed that the defendant should
find bail for the assault.
IV ORSHIP-STREET.
Yesterday, Mr. Purcell, landlord of the Brown
Bear public-house in Eldon-street, Mootfields, was
(lordly examined before the sitting Magistrates, Mr.
BENNETT and Mr. BROUGHTON, charged with having
killed an infant between two and three weeks old,
named art ha Web•ter, by crushing it, with the
mother, in the doorway of his house, at 1 o'clock in
the naming of Tnursday, the 27th ult.
The depositions, which had been carefully taker,
were now read over by Mr. Heritage, the chief clerk.
Mr. BENNETT, on the deposition of the mots er
being read, questioned her as to the latest period at
which she knew her child to he existing.

She replied, that just before she entered the deten-
dant's house she had put the child to her breast, and

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she was quite sure unit she felt it sucking immedi-
ately before she came out, when she was fixed in the
doorway, as already stated.
The Magistrates, after very minutely sifting the
evidence, expressed their opinion, that without re-
ference to the inquest which had been held, it was
their duty, after the evidence then before them, to
send the case to another Jury, in order to its being
thoroughly investigated.
The defendant was then held to bail, himself in
2001., and two sureties in 1001. each, to take his
trial for manslaughter.
Several gentlemen of great respectability, who
live in the neighbourhood, were in attendance to
complain of the annoyance and disturbance to which
they were exposed at late hours by the doings at the
defendant's house.

The Magistrates, however, refused to enter into
the matter at the time, when they were about to
commit the defendant upon such a serious charge,
and told the applicants that they could at a future
time proceed by indictment or information against
the house.

The defendant having put in the required bail,
was discharged.

QUEEN SQUARE.
Yesterday William Cole, 14 young man in the
employ of Mr. William Louden, watchmaker, of
No. 149, Great Staley-street, Blackfri.irs was

brought up for final examination before Mr. WHITE,
charged with stealing several valuable watches, the
property of his master, and pledging them at dif-
ferent pawnbrokers.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial, and
the parties bound over to prosecute.
Thirteen summonses were returnable yester-
day, issued against respectable tradesmen, inha-
bitants of the parishes of St. Margaret and St.
John, Westminster, for arrears due for poor-rates in
that parish.
In consequence of the hundreds p respectable

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persons in the parish who are, in arrears for poor-
rates, and supposed to be able to pay, and the low
state of the parish funds, the parochial authorities
have been compelled to adopt the present proceed-
ing against a few, in the hope that the others will
immediately pay up what is due. The various sums
claimed of the different defendants amounted to
about 2401. One individual alone, Mr. Andrew
Mann, was summoned for 117/. some odd shillings,
arrears of poor-rate.
Only one of the defendants appeared, who stated
his inability to pay the demand at present, on ac-
count of gentlemen and families not having paid their
Christmas bills. Tradesmen had often to wait a
considerable time for their money before they could
get it, to their great loss and inconvenience.
Mr. WHITE was aware of that, and he regretted
that many persons did not give it a thought who
were able to pay, and would do it instantly, if they
were at all aware of the great injury to the trades-

man.
The officers on duty proved the service of the
other summonses on the defendants who did not
appear, and an order was made by the Magistrate
fur the whole to be paid in a fortnight.
We undeistand that when the present overseers
came into office there was only a balance of about
1431. in hand, and when their predecessors came
into office they had a balance of upwards of 4,000/.

but a most repulsive fiction), where the first
stirrings of jealousy in the mind of a hot-headed,
ambitious stripling, are depicted with all the
truth and force of Shakspeare ? We had the
curiosity to turn to the passage the other day,
having met with the volume at a friend's house,
and found that though eight years had elapsed
since first we read it, it struck us just as forcibly
as ever. The remaining portion of the New
Monthly, which is chiefly mechanical, is got up
with the usual care and attention to seasonable
1 matters of fact. _

UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL.
We have read the number for this month with
great pleasure, albeit, some of our favourite
stories broken off abruptly in the last are not
continued. The article which has most pleased
us is that on the impressment of seamen. Its hu •
mane ar.d philosophic spirit must interest both the
philanthropist and statesman. The writer clearly
shows the fallacy of the popular argument in
favour of impressment, that the men cannot be
procured at a sufficiently cheap rate without, and
satisfactorily proves that its effect is to create an
unnatural rise in the price. After illustrating
the natural operations by which the demand for
horses on the breaking out of a war, and the
payment for them by Government at the market
price, keeps down that price, the writer says—
he
" The same argument applies to sailors. Suppose t
country were at this moment threatened with a war,—
say with the Northern powers —and that 20,000 men
were required for the Baltic fleet,—a force, larger by
1512 men than that which fought and conquered at Tra-
falgar, if no impres-ment were intended, there would be,
on the breaking out of the war, a very considerable force
of seamen to relieve the pressure of the Admiralty demand
upon the market ; all the sailors employed in our extensive
trade with Norway, and both sides of the Baltic would he
thrown idle the moment the war were declared, and of course
would help to keep down the pressure of the war demand ;
hut let us suppose impressment to he the order of the day,
—this disposable force, with as many others as possibly
can, would go into concealment, or flow off to America.
ith that facility with which sailor, more than any otter
class of persons, can change their paces of location ;
while the dread of impressment would deter fishermen,
&c. from going to sea, and keeping wages at their na-
tural level."
As a substitute for the present system, he
suggests a plan somewhat similar to that pursued

in France.
" We may he asked,—suppose a case of sudden emer-
cency, in which the adequate number of sailors cannot be
procured, what would you propose? There have been
many expedients suggested in such a case. For our own
part, we consider that proposed by the sailors themselves, as
much the best. Register, say they, the whole maritime
population ; let us have limited service, and adequate re-
muneration ; let no convict be sent into the fleet ; at the
expiration of service, let such as call for it, receive a certi-
ficate of exemption, and those who return with a certifi-
cate of good and faithful service, some civic honour, say a
medal, the freedom of their naive place, or a vote in the
town or borough to which they belong. And if, in addi-
tion to this, premium, promotion, and appointment, were
held out to the officers, so that they might become the
animating spirits, rather than the scare-crows of those men
over whom they are called upon to preside,—there would
he no more lack of seamen in war than in seasons of
peace and tranquillity."
We trust that this will be among the many
abuses which a Reformed Parliament will re-
medy, for certainly there is not one more gross
in existence. Of the other articles, the " Spectre
of the Mist" will perhaps prove of most interest
to general readers, and that on the " Construc-
tion of the Vernon and Cator" to the naval
portion of the community. The subject of the
breaking of the line is worn threadbare.
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THE COURT MAGAZINE.
Mrs. Norton is working wonders with this
periodical, which contains much good prose
writing (grave and humorous) and two or three
sweet snatches of verse. Them is, moreover,
an entertaining, ironical bit of criticism on the
old nursery ballad, " Froggy would a wooing
go," which is, of course, an imitation of Can-
ning's well-known critique in the Microcosm, on
The knave of hearts,
Who stole some tarts.

The embellishments are numerous, but well se-
lected ; and, what is better still, well executed.
The two in incipal ones are, " a portrait of Lady
Nasmyth," and a " view of the Duke of Devon-
shire's noble palace at Chatsworth." Both are
clever in their line, though we give the preference
to the lady. Altogether, the number is one of the
most spirited and efficient we have yet seen of
this Magazine.