The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-10 00:00:00

PRIVILEGES OF THE PEERAGE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR—I am a west end tradesman . some year-and-a-half
back a certain nobleman unfortunately dealt with me and
got into my debt, and from which there seems some doubt if
I ever shalt get him out, unless the Legislature will abolish
the law of privilege, under which he now treats me with
contempt, and sets me at defiance, as I will at once
show you. •
If I proceed against him in the County Court and go to
an execution against any effects he may have, I shall find
myself shut out by the landlord or landlady of the house
where he occupies famished apartments, and to whom I sus-
pect he owes a large amount of rent. An execution against
his person I cannot have because of his privilege as a peer.
Do you not call this a wrong without a remedy—a complete
denial of justice?
Begging your powerful assistance, I am, Sir, &c.,
AN UNPRIVILI,.GE # TRADESMAN.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
My attention has only to-day bee. cal.ed to a letter
in your paper of Thursday evening, signed J. D , repaoach-
fully casting some serious charges and refl. ctions on some
one of the very many young men whose engagements resider
them amenable to the caprice or temper of thousands, who
expect, when a p-st-ofiiee is nate bed, that their frivolous
questions about letters. &c , must supersede all ether busi-
ness. The econ,mical method pursued by th Yost-office for
the acknowledged great benefit society derives, will not
admit ot employing a person solely to perform their fluty at
every office in the metropolis. I suggest a method to cure
the nervous and irritable temper of J. D , wbo, it appears,
wanted t., be served instanter—namely, to piece him behind
a counter where a tolerably good business is being carried on,
and, iLdependent of his regular duties, see that he failed not
to answer a continual group of inquirers (not always the
most polite) in such matters as these :—"ls this letter in tin: e
for the next delivery ?" " Give me a stamp, and change me
half a sovereign ;" " When will this letter arrive?" " Just
weigh this letter ;" " Register these five letters;" " Trouble
you for a wafer," _
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I think after this trial J. D. would pause before attempting
to write anonymous letters calculated to prejudice the public
mind against individuals placed in a situation of great trust
and continual mental anxiety.

laiii:si;:;(;,iiOtedient servant,
NON-ARISTOCRATIC SHOPMAN.

Feb. 8, 1831.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR, —Will you permit me, through the medium of your
journal, to remind your Pimlico correspondent, who com-
plains of the want of attention uniformly exhibited towards
him at the Letter Receiving Offices, that he may easily
avoid the annoyance by providing himself with postage-.
stamps, the use of which greatly facilitates postal arrange-
ments.

Your correspondent, it would appear, systematically ne-
glects doing this, brings upon himself great inconvenience
in consequence, and thus esteems himself an injured man,
and asks you to redress his grievance.

I am, Sir, &c.,
PREVENTIVE.

THE IMPROVEMENT OF LEICESTER-SQUARE.—A.
meeting of the inhabitants of this district was held on Tues-
day evening at the Sabloniire Hotel, to take into considera-
tion Mr. Wyld's proposal for the erection of his great globe
in the centre of the square, and for its improvement and
ornamental arrangement. The meeting was numerously
attended. The chairman briefly stated that the object of
the meeting was to consider what should be done with the
square, which was now a public nuisance. Mr. Wyld then
lose and stated that the building he proposed to erect in the
square was for the purpose of exhibition. It would be com-
posed of iron, wood, and glass, and as little stone should be
in its construction as the official referees would allow. This
building would comprise a globe representing the earth,
sixty feet in diameter; and the remaining part would contain
specimens, both geographical and ethnographical, of mine-
rals, costumes, &c. He proposed to purchase the freehold
for ten years, at a cost of 3,0001. If the inhabitants, at the
expiration of that time, were willing that he should con-
tinue, well and good ; but if not, he pledged himself to re-
move all the building, and convert the square into a garden.
The building would nearly till the square. It was to be cir-
cular, with tour projections, and not more than 20 feet high.
From the centre a dome, 60 teet high, would rise, enclosing
the globe. The globe would be viewed from the interior, the
countries being modelled in relief on the interior surface.
The building would be erected in five weeks. The Chairman
doubted whether there was not an act prohibiting the erec-
oo. should
Finally,be used
e ad
erec-
tion of any building higher than the rails a the square, and
cited a case within his recollection, when the watchmen
were debarred from having boxes erected in the square. A
great deal of discussion arose on this point, and also as to in
whom lay the power of conveyance of the land, and with
examine the
regard to the restrictions thatci
for no purpose but that of a
committee was appointed
ved by Mr. deeds, aid the
following resolution was pea ethnteificbeuxiihdinbfti
K. 'aniThat P. Nind, and
seconded by Mr. exertions this meeting tenders
its thanks to Mr. Wyld for to rescue Leicester- '
present dilapidated condition, square from its and expresses
the len 01
todexaDl
its concurrence yid for the erection of '
his great globe in the. centre ot the square." The expense of
the building, we believe, will exceed 5,00uL, and in addition
to this the cost a the models is 12.000/.
MURDERS BY CUTTING A COLLIERY PIT.ROPE.--.
curing the past week the police of West Bromwich were en-
gaged in investigating au occurrence which there I too
much reason to fear will justify the heading we have given
this paragaph. We allude to the circumstance.. under which
two men, named Richard Grice and David Richards, and a
lad fourteen years of age, named Thomas Riley. met with a
premature and dreadful death. They were employed in a
pit near Hill Top, belonging to what is known as Wednes-
bury Old Field Colliery, and in the occupation of Richard
Morgan, Esq. At an early hour of the morning of Friday
week they got into the skip for the purpose of descending to
work, but when they had got about thirty yards down the
shaft (which is 90 yards deep) the rope snapped, and the
skip and its cargo fell to the bottom. The boy was killed at
once, his body being absolutely shattered to pieces, while the
two men Were injured in so dreadful a manner as to render it
a matter of impossibility that they could survive. They
lived, however, for two or three days. On the rope being
examined, it was apparent beyond the least doubt that it
I had been cut nearly through by some sharp instrument.
Inquests on the bodies were commenced by George Hinch-
life, Esq., but no evidence was taken, and the inquiries were
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adjourned for the purpose of fur girding information to the
Home-office.— Worcestershire Chronicle.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—.01) Tnursday evening as
Mr. David Littlechild, of Doddinghurst, was returning home
from London, when within a owe of his own house, about
eleven o'clock, two men jumped into the waggon, in which
h e was lyingdown, r
while a v named ladle was driving,
and another man seized the tv? ses heath. The fellows rifled
his pockets and took from him 5/. 9s. and some halfpence.
Littlechild returned to Brentwood and gave information to
Superintendent Coulson, who on Friday apprehended a man
named Burls, and he was identified by Littlechild as one of
those who robbed him. On the following day another man
named purkis was taken into custody, and both of them
were identified by Madle. The prisoners' shoes were com-
pared with some impressions made near the spot, and they
corresponded. Both prisoners were taken before P. Button,
Esq., at Brentwood, and committed for trial at the essizeg,..,
AS= 'brad.