The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-23 00:00:00

EXCISE COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

Before the Commissioners the Hon. Wm. Percy, the
Hon. B. Paget, and Sir John slortlock.
Thomas Front, whose case was adjourned from last
Saturday, to allow him time to call witnesses for the defence
was convicted of the common offence of keeping a privat e
still, in a house in which he lived in Oxford Arm :Passage,
Newgate-street, for the illicit manufacture of wines and
spirits. The Court convicted him in the mitigated pe-
nalty of 501. He was again indicted with alias of David
Sadler, for the like offence with a woman with whom he
cohabited at a house in Fleet-lane, and the same penalty
was awarded.

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INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.

The Matters of the Petitions and Schedules of the Prisoners
hereinafter named (the same having been filed in the
Court), are appointed to he heard at the Court House,
in Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, on FRIDAY,
the 29th November, 1833, at 9 o'clock in the Forenoon.
Waters, Ann, late of Narrow Wall, Lambeth, widow, baker.
Gaff, James Russel, late of Coin wall Cottage, Holloway,
first mate of an Indiaman.
Cant, Benjamin, late of Henry Street, Hampstead Road,
bedstead maker, lodger.
Bird, Edward Stephen, late of Harbour Street, Ramsgate,
licensed wine dealer, fishmonger, corn dealer, and
fruiterer.
Jacobs, Jane Ann, late of Drury Lane, widow, following
no business.
Wright, Ambrose, late of Primrose Street, Bishopsgate,
cabinet maker, upholsterer, and undertaker.
Wyman, George, late of Harrison Street, Gray's Inn
Road, licensed dealer in beer.
Collins, William, late of Charles Street, and also of Goff's
Yard, Woolwich, scavenger awl nightmana
Piddington, William Alder; late of Tower Street, West-
minster Road, baker.
Davies, Evan, late of John Street, Wilmington Square,
Clerkenwell, labourer.
Turner, William, late of Bagshot, Surrey, veterinary
surgeon.
Smith, George, late of St. James's Street, assistant to a
draper.
On MONDAY, Dec. 2.—Sane Hour and Place.
Hamilton, Shakespear, late of Hardwick Place, Com-
mercial Road, Saint George's in the East, late com-
mander of the ship Cambrian, a West Indiaman.
Bevan, Charles, late of Westbourn Street, Pimlico, paper
hanger, gilder, painter, plumber, and glazier.
Dixon, Richard, late of Ossulton Street, Somer's Town,
pastrycook and labourer in the Hon. East India Com-
pany's Service.
Hoy, Mary, late of China Row, Lambeth Walk, widow.
Pynge, George, late of Kilburn, Middlesex, artist.
Newbegin, Henry, late of High Street, Shadwell, butcher.
Rising, Robert, late of Great Hermitage Street, Middlesex,
master mariner and commander of a certain ship or
vessel called the Newton, of the port of London.
Read, Henry, late of the Castle Inn, Castle Ditches, in the
City of Norwich, farmer.
Goddon, George, late of Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell,
carcass butcher.
Hughes, Thomas, Fisher, late of Liverpool, Lancashire,
guard.
Taylor, John, late of Shouldham Street, Bryanstone
Square, carpenter and undertaker.
Burgess, Richard, late of Twigg Folly, Bethnal Green,
farmer and wharfinger.
Adjourned.
Randolph, Richard, late of St. John Street, Smithfield,
cattle jobber and dealer in cattle by commission.

GAS.—In consequence of the expected com-
petition in the price of lighting with gas, a considerable
reduction in the charge made for stipplyiog it has already,
in many districts, taken place. In the parish of St. Mary-
lebone there is now a project, which will be soon carried
into effect, for the parish to erect its own gasometers to
light the streets and supply the inhabitants, by which it
is expected there will be a saving of 30 per cent.

LITERATURE.

UNCLE PHILLIPS CONVERSATION
WITH CHILDREN. T. AND T. TEaa,
LONDON, 1834.

We like the matter and manner of this little
volume exceedingly. It is one of the best
children's books we have met with since the
days when the two Edgeworths (father and
daughter) did not think it beneath them to
write works of instruction and amusement for
the benefit of a generation, long since grown up
to man's estate, and which, by the bye, is the
very one that has just wrested Reform from the
hands of an oligarchy. Old Edgeworth (who
we believe was a Tory) little thought that this,
among others equally important, would be
the result of his efforts to expand the
intellects of the youngsters of his time.
The old gentleman would have been horror-
struck at such a consummation—at the idea of
having been, no matter how indirectly, an
accessary before the fact, to the murder of
boroughmongery. The volume before us,
though not equal to Edgeworth's " Parent's
Assistant," or " Tales for Children," is yet full
of instructive novelties, told in that simple, easy
winning manner which is sure to take with
young people. Uncle Phillips tells all his anec-
dotes about " birds, beasts, and fishes" with a
smile on his face, and a buoyancy in his manner,
as if his own young days were come back again.
His mind sits on the same stool with his school
boy readers. He is no Dominie—no austere
superior, but addresses them as their equal and
schoolfellow. His Introductory Letter is very
conciliatory and juvenile. In his preface to
parents he says, " in my simple view,
Christianity is a very quiet and gentle
thing, which eschews strife, and promotes prac-
tical goodness." Uncle Phillip is here unduly
modest. For " simple view," he should substi-
tute " comprehensive view," for in one little
unobtrusive sentence he has given us the whole
essence of Christianity, as we find it summed up
in the Sermon on the Mount. The book is in
the form of conversations, and the chapter of
contents of each of these reads as amusingly as
the titles to the chapters of Rabelais. All our
young readers must make haste and get ac-
quainted with Uncle Philip. They will find him
a very talkative, obliging, juvenile old gentleman.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

His Majesty's Hounds meet on Monday at the Crooked
Billet, Iver Heath ; Friday, at Walk End, near Chobham.
Mr. Mure's Hounds meet on Tuesday at Rougham Hall;
Thursday, at Trundley Wood ; Saturday, at Little Saxham
—at half-past 10.
The Suffolk and Essex Hounds meet on Tuesday at
Polstead Hall; Thursday, at Elmstcad Alarket—at half-
past 10.
The Cheshire Hounds meet on Monday at Sandiway
Head ; Wednesday, at Mere Hall ; Friday, at Worthington
Hall ; Saturday, at Weaver Hall—at half-past 10.
Lord Petre's Hounds meet on Monday at Scales Park ;
Wednesday, at Briggins House; Saturday, at the Capons
—at half-past 10.
Mr. Drake's Hounds meet on Monday at Brill Town ;
Tuesday, at Souldern Gate ; Thursday, at Islip Town
End ; Saturday, at Trafford Bridge.
Lord Radnor's Hounds meet on Monday at Shillingford ;
Friday, at' Nuneham.
Mr. MoretoL's Hounds meet on Tuesday at Sevenbamp-
' ton ; Thursday, at Filkins.
Mr. L. Sione's Hounds meet on Wednesday at Bright-
well House ; Saturday, at Turner's Court.
Mr. Holyoake's Hounds meet on Monday at Quenhy ;
Tuesday, at Allexton ; Thursday, at Oadhy Toll Gate ;
Friday, at Widmerpool—at a quarter before 11.
The Atherstone Hounds meet on Monday at Kirkby ;1
Tuesday, at Kingsbury Wood ; Thursday, at Orton on th
Hill ; Saturday, at Coombe—at 11.
Tne r,As. Lluuu In 0,. Tuesday at the Kennel ;
Thursday, at Yarrow ; Saturday, at Raiulaaor
half-past 10.
a, Mr. H. Villebois's Harriers meet on Monday at Foulden
Common ; Wednesday, at Feltwell ; Friday, at Swaffliarn
Race Course—at 11.
Mr. Leche's Hounds meet on Tuesday at Boleswortb
Castle ; Friday, at Gallantry Bank—at 10.
Mr. Berkeley's Hounds meet on Monday at Felmersham
Turnpike ; Tuesday, at Kempston ; Thursday, at Risely
Turnpike ; Saturday, at Brafield Furze—at half-past 10.
Mr. Dansey's Houndsa meet on Monday at Shelford
Manor ; Wednesday, at the Hut ; Friday, at Clifton—at
half- past 10.
Mr. Osbaldeston's Hounds meet on Monday at Cransley ;
Tuesday, at Stanford Hall ; Thursday, at Harrington ;
Friday, at the Kennel, Brixworth—at half-past 10.
Duke of Grafton's Hounds meet on Monday at Wil-
liam's Bridge ; Wednesday, at Wolverton Great Ground ,
Friday, at Teffield Turnpike—at half-past 10.
The Wepre Hounds meet on Wednesday at 111%varden
—at 10.

Sir T. Stanley's Hounds meet on Tuesday at Burton ;
Saturday, at Gayton—at 10.
The Brookside Harriers meet on Mondiy:at Newmarket
Hill; Wednesday, at the Kennel and Race Course, alter-
nately; Friday, at Telicombe Tye—at half-past 10.

MORE SEIZURES FOR ASSESSED TAXES.-
Yesterday the :Jtficers of the Sheriffs of Middlesex pro-
ceeded to the house of Mr. Hutchinson, of Gray's Inn-
lane, the Secretary to the Association, in St. Andrew's
Holborn, for the assessed taxes, and made a seizure for
arrears of assessed taxes. The goods were carried away
without any opposition, some of the neighbours merely
expressing their dissatisfaction by groans. Similar seizures
were afterwards made at the houses of Mr. Lovick,
plumber, and Mr. White, surgeon, both of Red Lion-
street, Holborn, who are directors of the poor of the
united parishes of St. Andrew, Holborn, and St. George
the Martyr, and who convened a meeting on Monday la,t
to take into consideration the situation of thirteen of the
parishioners, against whom Exchequer writs were out for
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EXETER---FATAL ACCIDENT.--About 11
o'clock on the night of Saturday last, Mr. B. Creswell,
of Rock's-lane, in this city, returned to his house, when
he found his wife had retired to rest. He had been
troubled with asthma for some years, and it is supposed
opened and placed himself at the window for the sake of
air. Of course precisely how occasioned can never now
be known, but out of this window he fell into the court-
lage, fracturing his scull so severely that the brain protru-
ded, and his death must have been instantaneous. About
five the following morning his wife awoke, and missing
him became alarmed ; she provided herself with a light,
and coining from the bedroom into that her husband had
last been in, the open and broken window led her to fear
the worst, and in the courtlage, as before mentioned, his
dead body was found.—Sherborne Journal.
COMMITTAL Or A MINOR.—In the Court
of Chancery yesterday, the Lord Chancellor directed that a
gentleman who had recently married a ward in the
Chancery, and who would not be of age for three years, to
be imprisoned for contempt of Court. The gentleman's
name, we have heard, is Thetwood. A similar judgment
was pronounced against the young lady and the witnesses
to the marriage—Dublin Morning Register.
CHOLERA.—During the past week several
deaths have taken place in this city, according to public
rumour and the opinion of some medical men, from Asiatic
cholera ; but almost all the cases have occurred in persons
of enfeebled constitutions, or in necessitous circumstances,
and less alarm is felt than formerly at the suspected pre-
sence of this mysterious visiter. The general state of
health in this city is by no means worse than is usual at
this autumnal season. An air of burlesque has been
thrown over the whole affair by a paper war between the
doctors and the butchers as to the digestible qualities of
" brawn" and " boar sausage.".—Kent Herald.