The Sun.
London, England, 1834-05-20 00:00:00

GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Notice is hereby given, that the King has been
graciously pleased to command that his Majesty's High
Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church
of Scotland shall have his residence and levees, and
give his entertainments at the Palace of Holyrood
House, during the sitting of the assembly.
Intimation is therefore now made, that his Grace
the Commissioner will hold his first levee, at the
Palace, on Thursday, the 22d instant, at eleven o'clock
A. M., being the first day of the meeting of the
assembly. Levees will also be held there, at the
same hour, on Friday the 23d, and Saturday the 24th,
and on Wednesday the 28th, being the day on which
his Majesty's birth day is celebrated.
His Grace the Commissioner will attend divine
service in the High Church on Sunday the 25th, and
Sunday the Ist June next, on both which days there
will be levees at half-past ten o'clock, but no public
entertainments at the Palace.
By command,
THO. BURNETT, Secy. and P.B.
Palace of Holyrood, 16th May, 1834.

THE TAILORS' STRIKE.—The utter dis-
tress into which the journeymen and their families
have been thrown, through their insane attempt to in.
tiztiidate their masters, appears at length to have
induced them to listen to the dictates of reason and
prudence, and there is very little doubt that before
many days are elapsed, they will all gladly return to
their work. During the last week several meetings of
the journeymen took place at their different lodges,
and a great many of the men expressed their determi-
nation to submit no longer to the dictates of their
leaders, but to rescue themselves and families from dis-
tress by returning to their work. The Union, on Satur-
day last, could not muster more than 3s. or 4s. for each
man, and even *this was done with theutmost difficulty.
A great number of the journeymen will, however, no
doubt, hold out as long as they can, as they are afraid
of the moral injury which their being beaten by their
masters would produce among the trades of the metro-
polis, who, it is well known, are only waiting to see
how the strike of the tailors succeeds, and whether
they have the power to compel their masters to accede
to their terms, in order to make a similar attempt
themselves. The persons who are at present suffering
most severely from the strike of the tailors are the
wholesale woollen-drapers, and sellers of light stuffs
for waistcoats, trousers, &c., whose business is com-
pletely destroyed at a time when it is in general most
profitable to them. It is stated that nearly 2,000 of
the men have returned to their work in different parts
of the metropolis.
Yesterday in the Sheriff's Court, Red Lion-
square, a jury was impannelled before Mr. Wightman,
Mr. G. Cooke, Mr. Maule (solicitor to the Treasury),
and Mr. Burchell, the Under Sheriff, to inquire
whether the late Mr. Dominick Oliveira, of Upper
Seymour-street, Bryanston-square, did not die an
alien, and whether (as he left no legal representative
or next of kin) his property had not become an escheat
to the crown. Mr. Oliveira bequeathed to his three
natural sons a sum of between 70,000/. and 80,000/.
in stock ; the bequest was to be given to other persons
named in the will, if either of the sons married a
Scotch woman, or the daughter of a Scotchman or
Scotchwoman. This bequest was left with various
provisions ; 3001. were left to Sir S. Scott and Mr.
Vere, the banker ; and he directed that the remainder
of his estate, including some property in Madeira, four
houses in Cumberland-street, Bryanston-street, Upper
George-street, and Upper Seymour-street, the net
rent of which is 2751., and six shares and a half in the
Grand Junction Water Works, to be divided between
his brother, John Francis, who resided at Norfolk, in
Virginia, and Joachim Oliveira, who resided in Brazil.
John Francis, it was proved, died in the lifetime of the
testator, at Lisbon ; and Joaquim, it was also proved,
was in Brazil, and that he and all the other members
of the testator's family were aliens.—The jury there-
fore returned a verdict, finding that Mr. Dominick
Oliveira was an alien, and that his next of kin were
aliens ; and that the houses before mentioned, and
the Canal Shares, had devolved to his Majesty by
virtue of his Prerogative Royal.
THE EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAGE ON
MR. GEE.—The husband of Mrs. Canning was a
farmer, living in the neighbourhood of Bishop Stort-
ford, where he died about six years back, leaving his
widow with three children, all girls, the eldest being
about six, and the youngest two years old. Mrs.
Canning removed very shortly afterwards to the
neighbourhood of her present residence at Old Ford.
She moved into the house where she is now living in
Providence-row only four months back,: and she at the
time mentioned to the landlord that she had a fixed
income of 841. per annum. The house is a very re-
spectable one, but lying off any main road; the rent
is moderate, and she was enabled therefore to live with
her daughters in a genteel style. She keeps one
servant, whom she brought with her from Bishop
Stortford. On the morning after the first disclosure
was made by Mr. Gee at Lambeth-street office, Lea
and Shelswell went over to make a caption of
Edwards, the avowed principal in the transaction.
The officers took their station in the parlour of the
Three Colts Tavern, which is within a few doors, and
from the bow-window of which they could command a
ntlg,s viewreosifd theenc
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had
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before the servant of Mr. Canning came to the public-
,house for half-a-pint of beer for the lodger, a single
lady, when, at the suggestion of Lea, the landlord
with female emigrants, alTived safe at Sydney on the
asked her if Mr. Edwards was Layton,
at her mistress's, to
with female emigrants, arrived safe at Sydney on
17th December, all well.
which the girl replied that he had been there that
MAIL BY THE HIGHLAND ROAD.—We morning, but had been gone away some time. This
are glad to learn that the counties of Inverness and answer was in its latter part wholly false, and there
Ross have begun to move in this important matter. can be no reasonable doubt that the girl was instructed
Were the mail brought by the Highland instead of the to say so. Lea was, however, too experienced an
coast road, Inverness and the whole of the counties officer to be easily trapped, and he remained watching
north would be placed nearly a day in advance. To the house for some time longer, till at last he saw
lessen distances and bring the extremities of the Edwards come out, when he sent Shelswell to watch:
country nearer the centre would be a great point gained his motions, and he was finally taken into custody as
in the career of public improvement and the progress of he was in the act of entering the house in York-street,
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