The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1835,

consumes the peace and prosperity of 6. kingdom, for
which he feels so great a horror. This rural
,incen-
.1
diarism, he says, prevailed very Innch iii the ieutli of -
England during the Diike of 'Wellington's Gciern-
ment, and its prevalence kikit a consequence and a '
proof of ritisgoVeintnent. -Be it so---the Whig Minis-
ters van hardly have the raisoiltei.y,tB, 811jea tcl hest
of. misgovetanieliligni AHlied in their own Adminis-
fration; ey have applied to that of their ad-
13i caries. What, then, do they say ?. What does their
Attornq,General say to the prevalence of incendiary
'Tires for a long time oast-at with a
few 811.,,rt ittteiVals, ever since they, the Whigs, came,
into office—and at their increasing preTalencz,, as the
columns of the daily Press showed, even at the time
when the Attorney-General was appealing to former
fires as evidence cif the nlisgoVerintlent of him whom
it has pleased the -Attorney Democratic
Lord and Master to call the k‘ stunted Corporal"
and the " swinezherd General ?" The Swing riots
undoubtedly broke out during the Duke of Welling-
ton's Administration—that Administration which, in
its excessive liberality, threw open the doors of Par-
liament to the Roman Catholic agitators, who now
demand the sacrifice of our Protestant Constitution.
The Swing riots We believe to have pritriPallY
originated from the wretched state of the agricultural
labourers, of whom many thousands were thrown °tit
of employment by the introdnetiOri or thitsiiing and
other machines into rat-in:Vas, and those who were
employed cotild not obtain wages adequate to sustain
Id:. Diu the Whig Ministers inquire into the causes
TA those riots ?—and, while they vindicated the autho-
rity of the laws, did they endeavour to rernove the
causes of just complaint, and improve the condition
of the suffering labourer ? . Nothing of the sort ; they
confined their operations to the sanguinary work of
Special Commissions, which would have been much
More sanguinary if it had not been for the
&strong
expression of public opinion against the sacrifice of
the " victims of misgovernment." In most places
the farmers substituted human labour once more for
machinery) and raised the wages of. their labourers,
though ail able to do it, and 80 those machine-
breaking riots, which every friend to pence and
order must deprecate, Wefe not renewed ; but little
thanks are due to the Whig Government for that.
Have the Whig Ministers from that time to this
taken any pains whatever to improve the condition of
the agricultural labourers ? Just as much as they have
to relieve the suffering farmers, which is none at all—
those farmers whom the Attorney-General had the
assurance to tell the Whig-Radicals of Edinburgh
were in a state of advancing prosperity. Has the love
of truth, which distinguishes the Irish Agitator, in-
fected all his political associates ? It is only on the
supposition of the generous contempt for matters of '
fact which distinguishes Dan having had a contagious
influence upon time who are in the habit of commu-
nicating with him, that we can account for this asset-
tion of the prosperity of the agriculturists by the At-
torney-General, and for niany other equally Well-
founded assertions of the Whig Ministers and their
minions. The I:timings oi Bristol and Nottingham,
which ertaitily did not occur under the Duke of Wel-
lington's Administration, must also, upon Sir- John
Campbell's principle, be taken as proofs of the mis-
government of the Whig Ministers. It is true
the ill-fated offenders were, in & great degree, if not
altogether, stimulated to these outrages by the in-
cendiary appeals of that portion of the Press which
was supposed to speak the sentiments of Ministers.
No matter—when the purposes of the excitement were
served, the deluded instruments of mischief received
their reward—military execution and the gallows
settled the account, and the uproar of artfully-excited
sedition was stifled in the silence of the grave. Does
the Attorney-General also forget that at Merthyr
Tydvil, and other places, more blood was shed by mili-
tary execution during the two first years of the Whig
Government than had been spilled in that way during,
at least, the preceding fifteen years ? Does he also
forget the campaign of Calthorpe-street, and the 60,000
workmen marching through London in the open day to
the Home Office, to demand the remission of the sen-
tence of transportation passed upon the Dorchester
Unionists ? Were Pll these things proofs of the order,
tranquillity, and confidence which the good and pa.
ternal Government of the Whigs produced ? It is true
the Whigs have the merit of introducing and carrying
that famous measure of relief to the agriculturists, the
Poor Law Amendment Bill—a measure, under the ope-
ration of which the distresses and discontent are con-
tinually increasing—distresses and discontent which
are, unhappily, to be read not only in the south of
England, but in many other parts of the country, by
the lurid flames of midnight conflagration. These
things Sir John Campbell admits are proofs of misgo-
vernment—but not the misgovernment of the Duke of
Wellington.—Morning Herald.

VICE CHANCERY COURT.

shawls and Other articles of Wearing apparel, with 11. 10s. '
in money, the property Of Mary llonharn.
- fic-nizt Sigma; aged 28, a dropiii; was; ,Convieted of
two Oats, the prOperty Of Mt:4(ll'lldr llicardo7; ngq:;
of the 2d Life Guards.
The property was stolen three years ago from the bar-
raolil; and trqccd. to the,possession of the prisoner, who
sold th 6 tkke 8f th&ii abdit a itldtitlt since!

William IVilhams, aged 17, was indicted fot -steaiiiid
sovereigt the property of Robert Henry Storey:
Guilty. &Mopped to lrportation for -14 Yeats:
, t.ne T.61061i) OStidi WOO OfdeNti td be
brought on.
A very strong discussion occurred as to its propriety.
The COMMON SERGEANT had nothing to do with the al-
leged preference given to the Mint eases. The Judges bad
directed it, as the Mint paid their own expenses.
Of the two trials that followed, one was that of a man
named Lyons, and the other that of a woman named _Burt.
In each case the two utterings were proved.
In the first case the Jury convicted, and in the second a
verdict of acquittal was returned.
The Learned SERGEANT; at half-past eight, adjourned
the Court until to-morrow, this day.

SURREY SESSIONS,-WEDNESDAY.

Juan ihoton, alias hillier, was indicted for stealing a coat
off the wooden flgure of a man standing at a shopkeeper's
door in Gentge,street, 131ackfriar's.road.
The prisoner stood up for shelter from the rain at the
prosecutor's door, close beside the figure of a man with a
fashionably cut green coat, exhibited for the purpose of
drawing custom. The prisoner soon fixed his eye on the
article, and, as one of the witnesses said, " before you could
say Jack Robinson," he had the coat off the wooden figure,
and bolted away down George-street as fast as his legs
could carry him. He was observed, however, and when
pursued he dropped the garment and continued his career
until be was at length taken into custody.
The prisoner, a shrewd, cunning-looking f,llow, endea-
voured to impress a believe that he was as innocent " as the
babe utiborn." lie declared that all the witnesses for the
prosecution were mistaken, " and well they might," said he,
" for the real thief and myself were as like as two peas."
The fact was, he had been to see a relative on the evening
in question, at the Cock in Fleet-street, and after leaving
the Cock to go home it began to rain very hard. When
he got to the corner of George-street it came down in tor-
rents, which made him commence running, and just at the
moment he passed the prosecutor's shop he heard a hilli-
bullu and cry of " Stop thief." He, however, continued to
run along, perfectly unconscious of what was the matter,
until, to his great surprise, he was seized by the collar and
accused of the robbery. He did see a man about his own
stature running very hard before him, and this fact con-
founded him with the real thief.
`ale CHAIRMAN examined the witnesses, who all swore
positively to his person.
The prisoner then commenced a cross-examination of the
witnesses, from which it was apparent that he was expe-
rienced at such matters, but with all his ingenuity he could
not shake the credibility of their testimony.
The CHAIRMAN asked the prisoner if he had anything
to say in answer to the charge. He answered that all arose
out of a mistake in the.identity.
CHAIRMAN-But all the witnesses could not have• been
mistaken on the occasion ; they have all sworn to your
Identity.
Prisoner—No matter for that, they are all in the wrong,
and I am innocent of the coat.

The CHAIRMAN again asked him if he had any persons
present to speak to his former character ?—The prisoner
gave a glance round the Court, and said that he saw no
one that he knew, and added that, from prudential motives,
he did not like to apprize his friends exactly of his present
situation.

The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
The CHAIRMAN said that the sentence of the Court was,
that he be transported for seven years.

Cornelius and John Crawley, two brothers under thirteen
years of age, were convicted of stealing some linen, which
was hung out to dry in a garden to which they had access.
After taking the articles they went and sold them for three-
pence at an old rag shop.
A Mrs. Reddick gave a melancholy account of the con-
dition of the two, unfortunate boys. Their mother was
carried off suddenly two years ago by the cholera, and since
her decease they had lost their only protector, their unna-
tural father having abandoned them and gone to live with
some woman. She (the witness) was convinced that the
boys were in a state of great destitution at the time they
committed the offence.

The CHAIRMAN inquired whether the father was in Court
to know the fate of his children, and the reply was that he
had been to see them at the gaol since their incarceration.
Upon further inquiry the Chairman ascertained that the
poor boys parent was employed during the Vauxhall season
in the Gardens, and was now a scene-shifter at the Victoria
Theatre.

The CHAIRMAN then sentenced the prisoners to be com-
mitted for seven days, and instructions were given to ap-
prize the father of their situation, with a view that when
they were liberated he might be compelled to support them.