The Sun.
London, England, 1832-07-05 00:00:00

NORTHUMBERLAND.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
Newcastle-on-Tyne, June 30.
A great change has taken place in the prospects of the
Representation of Northumb- rland. Resolutions had been
passed at different meetings to support Lord Howick. snit
C. W. Bigge, E.q. as candidates to represent the nortni:rn
division of the county. Mr. Bi4ge has declined coming
forward, on theground, it is understood, of not finding it
convenient (with a large family) to maintain a costly esta-
blishment in London. Mr. Bigge is a gentleman of high
respectability, and an uncompromising Reformer ; but his
refusal to become a candidate is scarcely to be regretted,
since it has given rise to an address to the electors from M.
Culley, Esq. of Coupland Castle, a gentleman whose
politi ral principles entitle him to equal support, and whose
affability of manners, whose knowledge of the people,
their interests and feelings, cannot fail to make him very
acceptable to the freeholders. Mr. Culley is one of the
most distinguished a,,riculturists the county of North-
umb. Hand has to toast. He is a man of an enlightened
and lib-ral mind—an arlent and determined Reformer_.
an enemy to all abuses in Church and State. But, above
all, Mr. Culley is entitled to the support
lvof the free-
holders, and will oain it, because he is above that
petty pride which too often makes a representative appear
rather ihe master than the servant of the people—b-cause
without trieantiess or obsequiousness he will mix freely
with his constituents, learn their interests and ..vishes
from themselves, and uphold them.
Lord Howick has announced his intention of coming
forward. Yesterday the freehold-rts resident in Moipetti
were canvassed in favour of Lord Howiek and Mr.
Culley, and nearly all promised to vote for them.
Lard Ossulston, the only other declared candid ite, it is
now clear is a Tory. All his supporters ai e Tories. The
Hon. 11. T. Liddell is one of them ; out it is understood
that the greatest is the Duke of Northumberland. It is
even whispered that anotiier Tory will be induced to offer
to oppose Mr. Colley : let him come and he will be
treated " according to his deserts."
In the southern division of the county the freeholders
have been canvassed so succes.fuliy on the part of the two
Independent Candidates, T. W. Beauihont, Esq. and W.
OA, Esq. as to leave no dourit of their election. Yet,
Matthew Bell, the ciinservative candidate, says be is quite
sure of being returned ! Yes, as a bill is—dishonoured !

Amongst the Ornithological curiosities which
ornament the aviary or a young lady in this country, is a
most beautiful Merula Alba, or white thrush, a bird which
from its rarity is scarcely known to us but by n me. Its
plumage is of a beautiful whiteness, acid the colinri..f it
beak and legs inclines to a saffron tinge. LS eyes are per-
fectly black.— Tipperary Free Press.
lit order to be qualified to vote in any borough,
under the Reform Bill, poor•rays and assessed taxes, tine
before the fib of April last, must be paid on or before the
20th i.f July, or they will not be registered as voters. The
shilling is not payable at the time of registration, or i„
preferring a chum to he registered ; but the overseers are
empow.-red to collect one shilling per annum from each
person so registered, as a part of his poor-rate, that is, of
any poor-rate which may he imposed after the registration
is completed.
A JUKE.—About a month ago a valuable
old horse, the property of a butcher at Hadham, Harts,
died in the 20th year of his age. A wag cut some rump
steaks from hint, and had them dressed at an inn, saying
"he expected some friends." The guests did not come,
and he went out to seek for them. Ile did not return foi
a long time ; and during his absence some of the by-stand-
ers, attracted by the savoury smell, and thinking the
steaks would spoil When the wag
made free with them.
returned, he first pretended to be angry at this liberty, busin course of time he told the horse-eaters of what they had
partaken. Their astonishment and indignation may be
conceived, but not deseribed.—Rerts Mercury.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

B OW STREET.

G. R. MlNsituLL, Esq. and the Rev. Mr. LAN.
DON, the Magistrates, were occupied for a consi-
derable rime on Tuesday afternoon in the investiga-
tion of a case of a very odd description. Just as the
time arrived for closing the office a tall and very
portly good-looking man, having the appearance
and deportment of a gentleman, about sixty years
of age, accompanied by an extremely pretty young
girl and a policeman of M division, came upon
the Bench, and, without any other introductory
remark, said, "pray is there any charge here against
a Mr. B. ?"
Mr. MINSIIULL (smiling)—l really cannot tell.
But pray who is Mr. B. ? Applicant—Why,
-ir, the fact is, he is a gentleman of some pro-
perty and consideration, and has been informed
that a complaint has been made against him here
from which he is anxious to vindicate himself.
Mr. MINSHULL—ReaIIy I am not able to under-
stand you. If there be any charge against this ob-
scure personage whom you designate as " Mr. B,"
I suppose he ought to be here. Applicant—Why,
to tell you the truth, S'r, I am Mr. B.—(A laugh)
—and having been informed that a charge has been
made against me either here or at some other police
offic,, I have come forward with this young lady and
toe police constable to answer it.
Mr. 1111NsituLL—I really am in the dark. Pray
who are you, iti the first place ? Applicant—My
name i. Brown, and I live at 71, Prospect-place,
Walworth.
Mr. Mits:situm.—And what are you, and what is
the nature of your application to me ? Mr. Brown—
I am Genilemen, and the brother of Sir William
Brown Cave.
The policeman said he would inform the Magis-
traies of the circumstances which had brought Mr.
Brown before them. An application had been made
a few days since at the Marlborough-street office by
a lady, who stated that her daughter, the young
girl now present, had eloped or been decoyed away
from school by a Mr. B. an elderly gentleman, and
that she was residing with him somewhere near
Newington-causeway. Witness, in consequence of
this report, set to work to trace the parties, and he
found tnem in the same house together, at No. 71,
Prospect-place, Walworth. He informed Mr. Brown
of what had been stated, and he at once insisted
upon coming before a Magistrate to answer any
charge that could be made against him.
Mr. MiNstwn—l have heard of no charge
against Mr. Brown.
Mr. Brown said he would explain. The young
lady now before their Worships was the daughter of
the late Reverend Dr. Milner, Rector of Middleton,

near Littlehampton, in Sussex, and one of ten chil-
dren left with her mother when Dr. M. died. An
application vizi made in her behalf to the Corpora-
tion established for the relief of the children of the
Clergy who may have fallen into distress, and that
body consented to advance their usual sum of 35/.

towards her maintenance and education at school.

She was then placed at school in the establishment
of a Mrs. Field at Marlow, Buckinghamshire, who
agreed to lake her for three years for GM in the
the character of an apprentice; the d►fference of
25/. to be made up by her friends. The balance,
however, was not paid, and she became distressed
for want of the necessaries becoming her situation,
and three months ago she ran away from the school,
and came to London. He (Mr. B.) having been
informed of this circumstance employed Ruthven
and other police officers to endeavour to trace her,
and he at length succeeded in finding her at a house
in the Borough. from whence he took her to his
own residence, where she had remained ever since.

It had been stated in the Newspapers that she had
eloped with him from school, which was scanda-
lously false, his only anxiety having been to preserve
her from destruction. She was found by the offi-
cers wandering about in the Borough, and since that.
Period he had been exerting himself to raise a sub-
sciiption for her, in order to procure her reputable
employment, and provide for her future comfort and
happiness. In this object he had been assisted by
the Bishop of Chichester, the Duke of Portland, the
Earl of Stamford and Warrington, th© Duchess of
Kent, Mr. Penn (of Pennsylvania), residing in
Spring•gardens, Mr. Drummond, and Mr. Childs,
the banker, all of whom had subscribed sums of
money, amounting in the whole to 571. The Bishop
of Chichester, however, intending his aid for the
daughter, begged he might not be drawn into a cor-
respondence with the mother, to whom he had a
great dislike. " The fact is," added Mr. Brown,
" that the object of Mrs. Milner in making the ap-
plication at the Police-office was to obtain a part of
the money which she knows has been subscribed for
her daughter."
Miss Milner was then called forward, and stated
that she was between 17 and 18 years of age, and

that when she fled from Marlow site was taken notice
of by a gentleman, who took her to a house in the
the borough, where she remained five days, when
she was found by Mr. Brown and the pace.

Mr. MINSHULL—\Vhat sort of a house was it ?
Miss Mrlrrer—lt was an improper house.
Mr. MiNsituLL—Who did you see there ? Miss
Milner—l saw the gentleman who took me there
several times, and the woman of the house, but no
one else.

Mr. MINSHULL—You may answer the question
or not, as you please; but did any thing particular
take place between you and the gentleman you al-
lude to? Miss Milner—Nothing whatever, Sir.
Mr. MINsHuLL—Do you mean to say that he
never attempt. d to lake liberties of any kind with
you ? Mss Milner—Never, Sir, the slightest ; I
will take my oath of it.
Mr. MINSHULT.—Upon my word, this is a very
odd case. Have you seen the gentleman since ?
Miss Milner— Never.
Mr. MINsITULL —On what terms have you lived
with Mr. Brown ? Miss Milner—As his guest
merely, Sir, and he kqt• been very kind to me.
Mr. MlNsllut.L—Still I caniot understand why
this case comes before me. The policeman said Mr.
Brown had been informed that Mrs. Milner had
been waiting about this office all day on Monday to
make achiege, and that was the reason he came here.

MINSHULL- Are you a married man, Mr.
Brown ? Mr. Brown—No, Sir. I have a house-
keeper, a hiuhly-resp-ctahle woman.
Mr. MlNsllum, (to Miss :Milner)—Where did
you sleep iri %Ir. Brown's house ? Miss Milner—
With his houseke -per, Sir.
The policeman— l'he housekeeper herself told me
the fact, Sir.

,thNSIIITLL—ReaIIy I hardly know how I
have jurisdiction o act in this case; hut there is a
young and I believe an innocent, girl placed in a
very singular predicament. It is my duly 'as a Ma-
gistrate to protect innocence as much as to punish
the wrong doer. Mr. Brown says Mrs. Milner
's
is to obtain the mono y which ha, been sub-
scribed for her daughter. This may be so, and pro-
batoly is the fact. I think the best way would be to
write to the clergyman of the parish where her mu-
'her resides, and state the circumstances, and re-
quest him to make inquiry, arid through him I will
receive any communication that the mother may
have to make.
Mr. Burnaby, the clerk, wrote a letter to that
effect, and when he had finished it the policeman
said he had reason to believe Mr. Brown's regard
and anxiety for the welfare of the young lady was of
the strongest kind, for that in his presence Mr.

Brown had that very morning said he would marl
her sooner than she should go back to her mother.
Mr. Brown—And so I would.—(A laugh.)
Mr. IlltssnuLL—But would the young lady con-
sent ? Miss Milner—l should not object, Sir.—
(Loud laughter.)
Mr. Brown—Upon my soul, Sir, I am serious,
and I will marry her too if she does not too speedily
alter her mind ; and, to tell you the truth, I don';
think she will prove a fickle jade.—(Laughter).
Mr. MINSIIULL—Then this part of the business
seems to have been previously discussed between
you ? Miss Milner—Oh yes, Sir.—(Laughing
heartily.)
Mr. Mimi-tux—But you can't marry without
the consent of your mother, can you ? Miss Milner
—Yes, Sir, by being asked in Church ; and, Sir
(added the young Lady, dangling her reticule before
her face, and casting a laughing glance towards Mr.
Brown that must have been perfec►ly irresistible),
to speak the plain truth, that has been done, and
we—we—we are to be married next Sunday,
Sir.—(Roars of laughter.)
Mr. Brown, joining with great apparent glee in
the merriment, said this was quite true, and there
was no use in denying it.
Mr. MlNsituLL—l think, Mr. Burnaby, the ex-
pense of postage may be saved. You need not
send that letter and Mr. Brown is at liberty to
depart. _ _

" Mr. B." then left the office, Miss Milner leaning
very affectionately upon his arm, and the fond
couple looking :6 unutterable things" at each other.

HATT ON- GARDEN.
Yesterday Angelo Leonardi, an Italian minstrel,
biought to this office, charged by William Day,
a lad about 14 years of age, under the following eir-
cunwances

The prosecutor stated that yesterday afternoon,
the prisoner was in the Lower-road, Islington, play-
ing an organ, and leading a dog, upon the back of
which was a monkey, dressed in military uniform,
and performing various evolutions a la Dacron,.
Witness was passing by, wheeling a barrow of linen,
when the monkey, without the least provocation,
flew at him, and seized hold of the fingers of his
left hand with his teeth. He endeavoured to push
the animal away with his right hand, on which it
bit his fingers, and hugged and scratched him in a
dreadful manner; and it was with great difficulty
that several persons who witnessed the transaction
extricated him from its grasp.
The prosecutor exhibited his hands, which were
severely bitten, and it was observed that he had two
thumbs on each hand, which excited considerable
curiosity; and the monkey, timing the examination,
was inspecting his own paws, and occas onally
glanced at the prosecutor, as if he owed him some
grudge.

Mr. ROGERS inquired of the lad whether he of-
fered any provocation to the animal.
The prosecutor swore positively that he did not,
but he supposed its attention was attracted by his
" thumbs."

St veral witnesses came forward to prove that it
was a voluntary attack by the monkey.
Mr. ROGERS was aware of the nuisance, and said
it ought to be checked.

Daniel Driscol, police-constable, N division, 44,
stated that he saw a mob in Lower-road, Islington,
where he found the monkey clinging to the boy, who
waThery s cing, and hi hands blding.
prisoner said that theee boy gazed the monkey,
and he flew at him, and bit him.

Mr. ROGERS said the public should be protected,
and he ordered the prisoner to find bail, for which
he was locked up. _
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Waddington said that the monkey would starve
if he was sent to the House of Correction, for they
would not allow him food or protection there, and
he was delivered over to a friend of the prisoner's.
The movements of the animal cawed much laugh-
ter. On entering the Court he doffed his cap re-
spectfully, and seemed to pay more attention to the
proceedings than his ma%ter ; and the moment the
prisoner was ordered to find bail he put his cap on
again, and kept his eyes fixed on the boy who made
the charge.