The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-18 00:00:00

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IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—JoSeph. Daniels, a lad aged 17,
who is well known to the police,
was brought before Mr.
Selfe, chzrged with stealing a Pair of carriage lamps, the
property of Mr. George Ellis, a job master and livery stable
keeper, of the King's Arm Tavern, in the Commercial-
road East.
Porter William Dunning, 129 11, stated that last night
he met the prisoner, in company With some boys, in the
Commercial-road, and followed him to Church-lane,
Whitechapel, where he stopped hita and asked him what
ho had in the bundle in his hand, to which he replied, " A
pair of lamps, which I am going to take to my father's at
Fryer's Mount." Afterwards he said he was going to take
them to a Mr. Furlong's, at Fryer's Mount. He suspected
his statement, and apprehended him,
Mr. Ellis said the lamps were his property, and were
fixed to a coach in the yard in front of his stables yesterday
(Friday) evening, at 6 o'clock, and he believed they were
stolen soon afterwards.

The prisoner pleaded guilty, and Mr. Selfe sentenced
him to three months' imprisonment and hard labour in the
House of Correction.

A VIRAGO.—EIiza Howlett, a dissipated-looking woman,
who has frequently made her appearance in this court in a
state of intoxication, was brought before Mr. Selfe, charged
with assaulting John Howlett, her husband, who is dwell-
ing in Rateliff, and is a very industrious mechanic.
The unfortunate complainant was laid up in the London
Hospital with a broken leg. The prisoner paid him a visit
and commenced abusing him, and he bogged her to desist,
and leave him. He was turned about in his bed, and his
wife stooped to regulate his pillow when he told her she

RUSSIA.

The following letter has been received from
Warsaw, dated December 12 :—" I have before me
the plan prepared by the committee for reforming
the relations between the nobility and the peasants
in the kingdom of Poland. Prince Gortschakoff will
leave at the end of this month for St. Petersburg,
in order to submit it for the Imperial sanction.
Contrary to what exists in Russia, the persons of
the Polish peasants are free ; consequently the com-
mittee appointed to define the relations between
the nobility and the peasants had only to occupy
themselves with the territorial relations, that is,
with the best means of replacing the corvee by an
acreable rent. The following is a sketch of the
plan proposed by the committee. The corvee will be
replaced by a lease granted by the proprietor to the
peasant, the latter paying a reservedrent for his land.
The contract is not revocable by either of the con-
tracting parties. Until a lease is accepted by the
peasant for the land he cultivates he will be sub-
ject to the corvee as at present. Each holding is to
consist of three acres at least, and the buildings and
farming implements on the land are to become the
property of the peasant. The amount of rent may
be regulated by the proprietor with the commune,
or with each peasant individually, but in no case is
the commune liable for the rent—each peasant is
answerable for his own share. The plan next re-
gulates the term of servitude, and the changes to
be made in the cultivation of the soil, as well as
the right of selling or subletting the holding,which
will depend upon the consent of the proprietor.
The land so let can never be repurchased by the
proprietor on any pretence, or by anybody in trust
for him. The tenant cannot acquire any other land
without the consent of his landlord. The plan fixes
a maximum and a minimum of land to be acquired
by the tenant, which extends from three acres to
sixty acres.