The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-08 00:00:00

TIIE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1834,

between the prices of the smuggled and the duty-paid
commodity. But the Commissioners of Excise seem
to think, that if all smugglers were exposed and punished
as justice demands, there would be too litttle busi-
ness, and, therefore, on the same principle that a rat-
catcher, when he has destroyed a certain number of
rats, leaves a few to breed, in order to secure employ-
ment another time, the Commissioners appear to en-
courage fraudulent traders, by making the punishment
as light as possible in small cases, and compromising
the penalties in important ones. We think we have
clearly shewn that the report in this respect is very un-
satisfactory. The Commissioners endeavour to prove
that their, Court is economically managed. They are
'aware that if it had not this merit, their Court would
not be tolerated for a moment. In this they are suc-
cessful, although it is evident that the stipendiary ma-
g 6istrates could with facility discharge their buszness.
In the country districts, the magistrates attend to Ex-
cise dutej% It is only a district round London which is
favoured by the jurisdiction of this unconstitutional
Court. Why should this be done ? Why should
such men as Sir F. Doyle be allowed to exercise an
almost tyrannical power over the manufacturing traders
of the metropolis ? In another article we will, by ex-
tracts from his evidence, slew his fitness to discharge
duties which ought not to be entrusted to any one,
much less to officers belonging to the school of Pitt
and Castlereagh, and whose sole object appears to
be to retain every restriction upon the manufactures
of the country.--Morning Advertiser. --- -
The law appointments in Ireland announced yester-
day
by our Dublin correspondent might at another
time have been passed over, as not calling for much
observation. Mr. Crampton, the new Judge, is a
lawyer above mediocrity ; as the Judge Jebb, whom
he succeeded, was nothing better. Mr. O'Loghlin,
the new Solicitor-General, is a sound lawyer, a gen-
tleman (Catholic) of liberal principles and of popular
reputation ; and Mr. Greene, the new Serjeant, a
person no otherwise to be unfavourably remarked upon
in the present instance than as having been put over
the heads of nearly 40 King's Counsel, his seniors at
the Irish bar. But as every thing in Ireland takes a
party colour, and as circumstances had predestined
this legal promotion to be regarded with more than
common curiosity at least, if not jealousy, by certain
portions of the Irish world, it may be fitting to observe
that Mr. O'Connell has so far laboured in vain as to
have failed—failed lamentably—in his professed pur-
pose, of dictating to Lord Duncannon and his Majesty's
Government, the list of personages by which the vacan-
cies referred to should be filled up. It will be re-.
membered what a volume of threats and denuncia-
tions has been poured out upon ministers within the
last three or four weeks, if they did not leave in Mr.
O'Connell's patronage the appointments of judges
and of law-officers of the crown in Ireland. They
must be of the " popular " party—that is, of the re-
peal or revolutionary party—of the O'Connell kidney
—of the anti-British coterie. Yes, the judge who
was to represent the Sovereign, and administer justice
in his name, and the law officers who were to ad-
vise His Majesty's government in all cases between
Crown and subject, must by all means be selected
from the faction whose only distinctive character
now is its eagerness for a measure against which
the King on the throhe has declared that all his
constitutional power shall be in the most strenuous
manner directed. " The people of Ireland," with
Mr. O'Connell's usual modesty, we were assured,
would be content with nothing less than such impli-
cit obedience to his mandate. But the mandate
has not been obeyed. Among the gentlemen of the
bar now promoted, there is not a single repealer of
the Union—not one ! The " people of Ireland "
must, therefore, swallow the disappointment as best they
can ; ay, and they will swallow it—meaning by " the
" people of Ireland"—the agitators of Ireland, and
their degraded, infatuated, miserable dupes. As for
th© real spirit or inclination of the Irish " people,"
comprehending the intelligence and property of the
country, it now never enters Mr. O'Connell's brain to
speculate upon it as being within the range of his mal-
practices. The course to which his evil genius long
since prompted him must have convinced him that all,
save only the lowest of the multitude, were inaccessible
to his most dexterous devices ; nor does he wish, on the
contrary, he dares not bring matters to such a test. He
dares not risk any public crisis which would only se-
parate the respectable part of the Irish nation from his
boasted " people of Ireland,"—namely, his own pe-
nance-bound slaves, whose credulity is more signalized
by their faith in him, than in a thousand saints and
10,000 priest-begotten miracles. There is no sort of
difficulty, however, in conjecturing to what use Mr.
O'Connell will now turn this rebellion of the Govern-
ment against him. It is a magnificent grievance ready
to his hand, and a lucrative one he will make it, or
his name is not Daniel O'Connell. The " people
of Ireland" will be told that such a catalogue of
nominations out-herods all the crimes of the bloody
, Saxons for more than seven centuries ; they will
be called upon to attest by substantial evidence their
indignation at the enormity of passing over the names
of O'Connell and Sheil, and a dozen other Catholics,
and choosing a Judge, Solicitor-General, and Serjeant,
to the exclusion of the dictator himself and of all who
enjoy his confidence. Will he pronounce himself still
a " Ministerialist," we wonder. We doubt it : this
dose would be too much for a West Indian shark to
swallow. No, but he will first inflame the poor mob
against the public authorities, and after driving them to
the verge of madness, he will conjure them " not to
violate the law." Why ?—because their blood will
be shed for it, and that would be an encroachment on
the agitator's own province. To him alone it belongs
to bleed his faithful " people of Ireland," and bleed
them pretty freely, to be sure, he will, on and after
the Ist of next month. This fresh offence, therefore,
of the King's Government against Mr. O'Connell is
to
a godsend the " annuitant of the people of Ireland."
The stream of popular fury he will turn to gold ; from
each halfpenny among them he will wring at least a
farthing ; and yet this is the man, the humane and
grateful being, who gets up in Parliament and has the
face to withhold a legal provision against famine from
the benefactors whom he has done his best to starve !
—Times.

COURT OF BANKRUPCY, OCT. 7.

(Before Mr. Commissioner EvANs.)
RICHARD MEE RAMS' BANKRUPTCY.

In this case the bankrupt is the principal of the firm of
William and Thomas Raikes and Co., and was Governor
of the Bank of England till Wednesday last. This morn-
ing some merchants and others interested in the estate of
Raikes attended at the Court for the purpose of open-
ing a fiat of bankuptcy against him.
Parties having been examined privately, Mr. Commis-
sioner EVANS decided that there was sufficient evidence
before him to direct a fiat to be granted.
The chief evidence of the commission of an act of bank-
ruptcy was afforded in the fact that on the 29th ultimo Mr.
Raikes addressed a letter to a person in his establishment,
which stated that, in consequence of his endeavours to ex-
tricate the concern from the difficulties in which it was in-
volved, he had determined to proceed to the Continent,
and he gave instructions to the party addressed to procure
a power of attorney for the disposal of 4,0001. Bank Stock,
standing in his name in the Bank of England, and to trans-
fer it to another party. This letter the Learned Commis-
sioner considered adequate proof of an act of bankruptcy,
and a fiat was awarded. The petitioning creditor was Mr.
William Dean Labouchere, who proved for 1,5001. It is
said that the assets of the estate exceed 9,0001. The 20th
instant is named for the first meeting of the creditors, and
the bankrupt's last examination is fixed for the 18th of
November.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Mild:ell, a cabman, on Saturday remanded upon the
charge of having stabbed a man named Charles Bradshaw,
was brought up for re-examination.
Bradshaw appeared with his arm in a sling. On Satur-
day morning, while he was in the Bull Inn, Aldgate, read-
ing the newspaper and waiting for his breakfast, the prisoner
entered the room, asked him for the paper, and said, " If it
was not for you, I'd be in a place now." Witness asked him
what he meant, and he called the witness the most horrible
of names. Witness said, "If you go on in that way, I'll
shake you," and got up accordingly, and did shake him.
Prisoner then took up the knife, and stabbed witness in
two places in the left side. Witness's hand was also cut in
the attempt to prevent the prisoner from doing him further
mischief.

The prisoner declared that the witness had called him
by the horrible names just mentioned.
The LORD MAYOR (to Bradshaw)—Did you use that
epithet to the prisoner ? Bradshaw—Quite the contrary.
He called me by it. I never said a word of the kind.
The LORD MAYOR—Did you strike him ? Bradshaw—
I don't recollect striking him, but I certainly shook him
well.

The LORD MAYOR—A man who was present says that
you struck him first. Bradshaw—l don't recollect it.
The LORD MAYOR—Did he go to your box, or did you
go to his, when you told him you would strike him ? Brad-
shaw—l went to his box, and when I shook him he took
up the knife off the table and stabbed me twice with it.
The wounds are still very bad.
The prisoner—My Lord, I wish to say something.
The LORD MAYOR—I think you had better hold your
tongue for a while. lam not one of those who think it is
acting in a spirit of British law not to caution a prisoner
against doinc, himself an injury. The prisoner—l only say
he struck and abused me violently, and I held out the knife
to protect,myself, for he is a much stronger man.

The prosecutor certainly is a much more powerful man
than the prisoner.
The Loan MAYOR—I shall remand you for a few days,
and then commit you for cutting and maiming.
The wife of a metropolitan policeman complained to the
LOUD MAYOR that the parish to which she belonged, and
to which her husband, who had left her, allowed her 3s. a
week for her maintenance, had refused to give her that al-
lowance, but proposed to her to go into their poor-house at
Stepney, where she should be maintained, the 3s. a week
going into the hands of the parochial authorities, according
to the provisions of the new Poor Law Act.

The complainant had the greatest objection to go to the
poor-house out of the parish, as it was in the power of those
who superintended such places to act very harshly to the
poor.
The LORD MAYOR asked why the officers of a city parish
were so anxious to drive their poor to their poor-houses in
the country ?—The overseer replied that the parish had no
workhouse in the city, and were obliged to give their
paupers out-door support, or to send them to the workhouse
at Stepney. As the complainant was an able-bodied
pauper the authorities did not consider themselves at liberty
to dispose of her in any other way than by sending her to
the only workhouse they had.
The LORD MAYOR—You have no right to send any of
the poor out of the parish except their health require the
change of air. I shall not authorise any thing of the kind.
The Overseer—lt is not our wish to do any thing that
may appear harsh, and we consider that in refusing to give
the applicant the 3s. a week, we act according to the spirit
of the new Act.

The LORD MAYOR—I admit that if you had a work-
house in your parish I could not interfere, but I shall not
permit you to drive this woman away to a place from which
the complaints of the inmates cannot easily be heard in the
city. You may take her husband, if you please, and make
him give you a better allowance for her. He ought to give
more than 3s. a week, and I wish you would tell Mr.
Mayne, the Commissioner, the facts of the case.
The Overseer should represent the matter to the Com-
mittee.

The LORD MAYOR—I consider that it is most cruel, as
well as most impolitic, conduct towards this woman:parti-
cularly as she is abandoned by her husband ; and I think
that any fellow who acts as he acts is a very improper
person to have anything whatever to do with the adminis-
tration of justice.