The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-20 00:00:00

we must really leave to those to determine who gave
birth to the idea of placing them in the same yoke.—
Morning Advertiser.

It is scarcely necessary for us to invite attention to
the abridged report of the proceodings of the Con-
servative Society in Dublin, at their Meeting on Tues-
day last. Mr. Boyton made a powerful and un-
answerable speech, which, however, is " shorn of its
fair proportions" as it appears in our columns. We
feel the less remorse at the unavoidable mutilation
which this eloquent address has received at our hands,
when we know that the parts omitted principally refer
to proofs of the confederacy existing in Ireland to sub-
vert the Protestant Church, to seize Protestant pro-
perty, and to expel the Protestant inhabitants from the
land of their birth. This journal has over and over
again published incontrovertible statements of the ex-
istence of this conspiracy. We are proud to find that
Mr. Boyton has entered upon the field, and we agree
fully with the Dublin Evening Mail that his speech
on this occasion " surpasses in deep research, varied
information, sound argument, and irresistible eloquence'
any ever before delivered by him."—Morning Post.
To such a pitch does a stupid morning print carry
its envious cavils, that it represents objections to par-
ticular passages in a statesman's career as inconsistent
with a high estimate of his talents and moral worth at
the termination of his political life. Against the fault
of the day we entered the remonstrance of the day ;
but when Lord Grey closed his account with the pub-
lic, it was for us not to look at items of discredit, but
to strike the broad balance of merit and service.
Taking the whole of his course into view, his claims
on our admiration shut out of sight the spots we could
not approve. We are quite content to have it said of
us, that while he was in power we strove earnestly
against the faults in his policy, but that in his retire-
ment we hold them but as dust in the balance against
his character and services. He might have done bet-
ter in some particulars, but who in English history
has on the whole done so well ? For the sake of the
public interests and his own character, we called on
some occasions for a bolder, a firmer, a more decisive
policy; or his abandonment of a Government, the re-
sponsibility of which was his without the due power; but
these were the perils, not the shipwreck of his nobler
fame, and as such only we look back upon them. In
the same spirit in which he had our warning he has
now our honour.—Times.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

Yesterday an old man, who had been caught in the
offence of begging, was brought before the LORD MAYOR.
He had been lodged in the Compter all night.
The LORD MAYOR—WeII, you see what you are to ex-
pect if you follow the trade. How do you like prison ?
Defendant—l can't say I like it at all, my Lord, but I
wish you would be so, good as to lock me up in a work-
house. I've been knocked about by the parish officers
dreadfully.

The FORD MAYOR—What parish do you belong to ?
Defendant—l belong to Cirencester ; but I lodged and
worked in Clerkenwell for the last three months. When I
could not get work I applied for relief, but all I got was
45., upon condition that I should go off to Cirencester. So
I went off, but when I got there they refused to have any-
thing to do with me without a pass, and I walked every
step back to Clerkenwell, but they said they would have
nothing to do with me.

The LORD MAYOR—Why didn't you go to the over-
seer's house and sit down until he relieved you ? De-
fendant—l sat on the steps for three days and three nights,
but it was no use. They said the Poor Law Bill wouldn't
have anything to do with me. I wish your Lordship would
send me somewhere. I don't know what it is, but some-
thing or other is making people's hearts as hard as a stone.
The LORD MAYOR—It can't be the new Poor Law
Bill. That's all humanity and benevolence. God bless
their tender heiirts.—(A laugh.)
The defendant said that he should go to the Magistrate
of the district once more, and, if he was sent away as be-
fore, why he supposed he must lie down and die.
The LORD MAYOR—Go the Magistrate and tell him
what you have told me, and he won't refuse to interfere.
Two men, named Richardson and Brown were brought
up. Mary Edwards stated that she arrived at Moorfields
in a waggon, and had her trunk taken out and put it up
against the wall, in the care of Richardson, who was the
waterman. Upon her return to the spot the trunk was
gone, and Richardson said he had left Brown sitting upon
it, smoking his pipe, and thought that all was right.
Richardson, a very big John Bull sort of man, said that
he had placed the trunk against the wall, and after it re-
mained there, waiting for the young woman, Mr. Brown,
whom he had never seen before, walked over to it with a
pipe of tobacco, and down he sat straddling over it as if he
belonged to it. Mr. Brown looked and smoked as if he
was put there on purpose to see that the trunk didn't walk
off, and he (Richardson) went in and out about his busi-
ness. At last he all on a sudden missed Mr. Brown and
the trunk, and then the complainant walked up to him and
accused him of a robbery.
The LORD MAYOR—Do you know this Mr. Brown ?
Richardson—Never clapped eyes upon him before. Bless
your soul, when he sat upon the trunk he looked as though
the whole street belonged to him, and I did not think it
was my place to say a word to him.
The LORD MAYOR—WeII, Mr. Brown, what have you
to say about this trunk ? I suppose you intend to find it
for this poor girl ? Brown—l know nothing of it, my Lord.
I was just looking about for a place to sit upon, when I
spied the trunk, and I sat down and began to smoke, but as
I was puffing up came a man with an apron, and, says he,
"13eg pardon, master, I want that ere trunk ;" and so up I
gets, for it did not belong to me, my Lord, and away he
walks with it upon his shoulders sure enough.
Richardson—As soon as I found it was stolen I offered
a reward for it, and if I catch the thief I'll never ax a bit
to eat again if I don't sicken him of trunk-stealing. I ra-
ther suppose, please your Lordship, that this here Mr.
Brown had a bit of a concern in it.
' The LORD MAYOR—lndeed so do I, and he shall be re-
manded ; but I believe you to be an honest fellow who will
try to detect the thief.

The LORD MAYOR stated that he had received a note
from a poor man who had lost his child, and expressed
much gratification at the fact that the child alluded to was
the third that, during his Mayoralty, had been restored to
its parents in consequence of the public notice taken of his
observations.

GUILDHALL.
James Bolton, who has been in custody some days,
charged with leaving his children chargeable to the parish
of Cripplegate, was discharged, having compromised with
the parish officers.

BO W- STREET.
Yesterday a gentleman, who stated himself to be a bar-
rister, having chambers in the Temple, and also occupying
a house in one of the squares north of Holborn, made an
application to Sir F. ROE and Mr. MirisHum. under very
curious circumstances.

The applicant stated that he required the advice and as-
sistance of the Magistrates to recover a number of letters
and other documents which had been surreptitiously ob-
tained from him, and the possession of which was of the
last importance to him. He had a cause of great conse-
quence to himself and family pending in one of the higher
Courts, and the testimony in favour of his side of the ques-
tion depended almost entirely upon the production of cer-
tain letters which he had received from one of the parties
most materially concerned, and also a copy of a will which
was amongst those letters. Yesterday morning he missed
these letters and papers from his library at his private
residence, and, upon rigidly questioning his servants, one
of them, a young girl, admitted that she bad given
them to a medical gentleman in the neighbourhood.
She stated that the gentleman alluded to had several
times come to her master's house in his absence, and
was very particular in his inquiries as to his habits,
his time of quitting home in the morning and returning
in the afternoon, an also as to his mode of keeping his pa-
pers. He called on Thursday morning and told her that
if she would call at his house on Friday (yesterday) morn-
ing, and let him know when her master was gone to cham-
bers, he would give her a sovereign. As soon as the ap-
plicant had gone out yesterday morning, the girl went to the
medical man and communicated the fact, and he said " very
well—then I will wait upon him at his chambers." The
girl received her promised reward, and returned home, and
in about an hour the medical gentleman called at the appli-
cant's house, and said to her, " I have seen your master at
chambers, and you are to give me, by his order, certain let-
ters and papers which are on his library table, tied with red
tape and sealed." She gave him the parcel, which from
his previous conversations with the girl he was enabled to
describe so accurately, and he went away, promising to give
her a further reward the next time he saw her.

Sir F. ROE—How do you account for such extraordinary
conduct. Are you acquainted with his
intimately
at all ? Ap-
plicant (greatly excited)-0 yes, he is connected
with the parties opposed to me in the cause which I have
alluded to.

Sir F. ROE then called the servant girl forward, and she
corroborated her master's statement.

Sir F. ROE—There are two other courses open to you,
though I question very much whether you would succeed