The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1835.

statement ever before made by any Right Hon. Gen-
tleman who has filled that office ? But it is said that
treat economy has been displayed in the estimates for
the present year. That this, to a certain extent, is
the case, we do not deny ; but still we are not prepared
to give much credit to Ministers for having done this
little, which we much doubt if they could have avoided.
But, as we have often attempted to show, the country
requires something more in a Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer than the mere talent of discovering, with the
assistance of twenty clerks, and 'constant mementos
from Mr. Hume, where a small reduction can be made
without injury to the public service. The system of
reduction, even if carried to the fullest extent con-
tended for by its most zealous advocates, can be brOught
to bear upon so small a sum, that its effects, in com-
parison with what might be done by the relaxation of
the restrictions on industry, and the total abolition of all
the taxes and burdens which press upon labour, is, in the
eye of the statesman, scarcely worthy of consideration.
But, with regard to the progress suggested to have
been made, not only must it be recollected, has no-
thing been done towards arriving at that more equal
adjustment of the public burdens, so long promised to
the country as one of the first fruits of the Reform
Act, with a Whig Ministry in power, but actually
all inquiry into the effects of this unjust system was
most strenuously resisted by the Ministers, when a mo-
tion to that effect was brought forward by the Hon.
Member for Worcester. Distress was not denied—
but there shall be no inquiry. That, in the midst of
plenty and abundance, there should be such want. and
distress, that, notwithstanding the finest .seasons,- the
agriculturist should be daily sinking faster and faster,
must be owing to some radical defect in our taxation,
or system of finance. So are the words of the author
of a pamphlet published at Ridgway and E. Wilson's,
and contained in some preliminary observations lately
prefixed to a letter addressed to the late Lord Liver-
pool :—" That a country possessing every earthly
comfort should have misery amongst its inhabitants
from the want of food and clothing, when in the midst
of excessive wealth, clothing, and provisions, bestowed
upon us rs a blessing by this Almighty, Must
arise solely from a cause of misrule unnoticed by
Legislators ; and as the most virtuous Government,
however constituted, cannot do more to secure the
welfare of a community than make the laws of taxation
just, so will it be found that all the evils of this coun-
try, and all others chiefly arise from injustice in taxing
the necessary food of life, instead of realised incopte.
The taxes, direct and indirect, upon the precarious an-
nuity of a day labourer, if traced in all their bearings
with the decrease of wages he receives from the con-
sequently diminished demand for labourers, is at least
50 per cent., while, at the same time, an opulent miser,
spending only the same sum for a bare subsistence,
does not pay the tithe of as many farthings per cent."
The author alluded to then proceeds to show how a di-
rect tax upon " realised property," by which we presume
is meant to exclude all fluctuating income arising from
professions, &c., would not only generally benefitt the
country, but even the persons from whose pocket the
direct tax was to be taken, and who, it is contended, will
have a larger disposable income for the luxuries and
comforts of life than under the present unjust system.
We have ourselves long contended for the total aboli-
tion of all taxes on the zietual necessaries of life ;
that. done, the sprina and enerry which would be given
to industry universally throughout the country would.
be so great, as not to leave so great a deficiency to be
morale up by direct taxation as is apprehended.• All
direct taxation, we are-aware, must he necessarily more
or loss vexatious ; but would persons only take the
pains to inquire what a large price ,hey are paying (to
say nothing of the injustice done to the poorer and la-
bouring classes) for. this exemption, we feel convinced
they would be prepared to adopt a more just system,
and one somewhat more nearly in unison with Adam
Smith's long recognised; but. oft-neglected axiom,
" that the subjects of every State ought to contribute
towards the support of a Government as nearly as pos-
sible in proportion to their respective abilities." In
another column of our paper we have inserted a form
of petition drawn up and circulated by the author of
the pamphlet above alluded to. Though we do not
profess to agree in all that is there laid down, we still
think that the data there given, and the facts therein
stated, are well-deserving the perusal of all persons,
and more especially of those' constituencies-whose Re-
presentatives in Parliament, though pledged to endea-
vour to relieve their distress, have hitherto done their
utmost when off the hustings to stifle even all enquiry.
Vorning Elcrad.
The Gazette of last night anpounces that the family
party at the Admiralty is finally arranged- Three
brothers at a Board of six members, one of the three
being its President and chief, is as good a contrivance
,
as could haVe been imagined to show the country how
well the affairs of the Navy might. be conducted with
four Lords of the Admiralty instead of six. The
three amiable brothers have, of course, three heads,
but their junction in the same Commission shows
pretty clearly that they have but one mind (if so much)
among them, consequently so long as the present Com-
mission remains in force the country has to pay the
price of six Lords, receiving in exchange the benefit of
the deliberative wisdom of at ,the most only
Morning Post.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.

Yesterday a young man, named George Clarke, an as-
sistant Post-office letter-carrier, was placed at the bar be-
fore Mr. HALLS, charged with having stolen two letters
from the Inland-office that morning, where be was em-
ployed as sorter.
It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Critchard, that the
prisoner was employed to assist the regular letter-earrier be-
longing to the Golden-square walk, and it was also his duty
to attend in the Inland-oflimito assist in sorting letters. The
prisoner was so employed at 7 o'clock that morning, and from
some communication made to witness by a letter-carrier
named Walton, he called the prisoner into his office, and
desired him to produce what letters and'papers he had about
him. The prisoner immediately drew from his coat-pocket
a small book, together with a number of papers, and after
hastily looking over the latter, he replaced the: in his
pocket. Witness requested to see the papers, and the pri-
soner took them again from his pocket, and handed them to
him ; and witness, upon examining them, found the two
sealed letters now produced, one of which was addressed to
" Miss King, No. 5, New-street, Covent-garden," and the
other to " Mrs. Rotherham, No. 28, Prince's-street,
Leicester-square." On questioning the prisoner as to his
possession of these letters, he said that he took them from
the sorting-table of the Inland-office. The letters were not,
addressed to any place within the prisoner's delivery, and
under no circumstances ought he to have had them in his
possession. Witness immediately called a constable, and
gave the prisoner into custody.
Mr. W. Bookenham, a clerk in the General Post-office,
proved that the two letters produced were stamped by the
prisoner that morning in the Inland-office at the A table,
where he was employed in sorting letters.
Miss M. E. King proved that she had relations living in
Lymington, from whom she expected a remittance of mo-
ney. The letter now produced addressed to her was in
the hand-writing of Mrs. Sarah Ann Fowler, her sister,
who lived at Lymington.

Mr. Peacock, the solicitor for the Post-office, requested
her to open the- letter, and upon doing so it was found to
contain a 51. note of the Lymington bank.
Mrs. E. Rotherham proved that her husband was at
present travelling in the country. The letter now pro-
duced was addressed by him to her. It was dated from
Tickhill, near Bawtry, September 17, but contained no re-
mittance of money.
Mr. Peacock said, that he could carry the case no fur-
ther at present, and requested that the prisoner might be
remanded, there being a further charge against him, which
he should be prepared to bring forward on a future day.
-The prisoner in his defence said that he took the letters
by mistake from the Inland-office, and being afraid if he
took them back he should get into trouble, he determined
to deliver them himself.

The Magistrate ordered him to be remanded for a week.

QUEEN SQUARE.

A young man named William Jones, who was charged
with furiously driving and cruelly treating a grey mare in
the Westminster-road, and who was fined in a heavy pe-
nalty for the offence, was yesterday, placed at the bar,
charged with stealing the animal.
Police-constable Edmonds, of the L. Division, deposed
that the prisoner had been detained upon suspicion, and
witness was directed to make every inquiry to bring him to
justice. The prisoner had at first stated that the mare be-
longed to a Mr. Bond, of Oxford-street, afterwards that
it was the property of a gentleman in Aldersgate-street,
and at last solemnly declared that the mare had been
bought by himself a few days since and paid for. The

policeman added, that if time were allowed, he should, no
doubt, be able to discover the owner.
The prisoner, who did not say anything in defence, was
then remanded. until Monday, and Mr. GREGOR/. directed
that every publicity should be given to the circumstances
through the medium of the Hue and Cry and the official
report of the police.

HATTON-GARDEN.
Yesterday Mary Oxford, one of the gipsey tribe, whose
skin was tinted with " nut-brown berry," was brought be-
fore Mr. LAING, in the custody of 81, E division, charged
by Frederick Kensit, of No. 26, Cliff-street, New North-
road, Islington, with having decoyed Mary Taylor, a girl
twelve years of age, from her home.
It appeared from the evidence of Kensit, that yesterday
morning, at an early hour, as he was proceeding to his work
along Holborn, he saw the prisoner sitting on the step of a
door asleep, and in a most filthy condition. The girl Mary
Taylor was sitting by her side, and being struck by the con-
trast of their appearance, he suspected that all was not right
and he questioned her, and she said that the prisoner was
her mother. The prisoner rose from the step of the door,
and, making use of horrid language, asked him what busi-
ness it was of his, and threatened him. Being convinced
that her intentions towards the girl were improper, he called
a policeman and gave her into custody ; and when at the
station-house the girl admitted that she had been enticed
by the prisoner to leave her home, and said that her father
was a carman, residing in Featherstone-street, City-road.
Mr. LAING asked the prisoner (who is an evil, forbid-
ding-looking woman, with excessively black and loose hair,
and a dark, piercing eye), where she lived ? She replied—
The Mint, in the Borough—(a most notorious neighbour-
hood.)
Mr. LAING—What are you Prisoner—l am unfor-

tunato.
In answer to further questions, she said that she bad
come from Hambledon, in Hampshire ; and she had been
in London three weeks. She met the girl in Smithfield,
between ten and eleven o'clock on Thursday night, when
she asked where she was going, and on telling her to
Covent-garden to shell walnuts, she said she would go
with her.
Mr. Kensit said, that another girl had been lost from
the same neighbourhood, and had not since been heard of ;
and the prisoner was suspected of having decoyed her also
from her home.

Mr. LAING asked the prisoner how she got her living at
Hambledon, in Hampshire ? Prisoner—l have been in the
habit of travelling by myself through the country.
Mary Taylor, the girl, was examined, but she was so
terrified, in consequence of the prisoner's threats towards
her, that she was unable to speak, until Mr. Laing ordered
the prisoner and Mrs. Taylor, the mother, to leave the
Court. She then stated that she left home on Monday
night, and met the prisoner in Holborn, when she told her
!:he had no father or mother, and asked her whether she

would go into the country with her "hopping." She con-
sented, and remained with the prisoner picking walnuts in
Covent-garden.; and they wicrc going somewhere in the
country on Friday morni
ng, when they were found by
Mr: Kensit.

Mr. LAING—Why did you leave home ? Girl—Because
my mother beat me.
Mrs. Taylor denied having beaten her, and said that she
bad once before run away from home. She absented her-
self without any provocation, and involved her in the greatest
anxiety, and every inquiry was made after her.
Inspector Campbell, of E division, stated that when the
girl was brought to the station-house, eke informed him that
the prisoner had actually decoyed her from the door of the
premises of her parents.
Mr. LAING reprimanded her, and ordered her to return
home with her mother ; but he committed the prisoner
Oxford to the House of Correction for fourteen days.
Jo!u Rawlinson was charged by Thomas l'anyer, of
No. 42, High-street, Islington, coifee-home-keeper, with
having stolen a coat and a pair of shoes.
The prisoner was seen to leave the house with • the pro-
perty, and he was pursued and taken into custody.
Mr. LAING—Pray what are you ? Prisoner—l have
driven a cabriolet. _

Mr. LAING— What are you now ? Pris Oner—l am
nufren, your Vurship.
Mr. Lance—What have you to say to the charge ?
Prisoner—l was greatly distressed, arta I
,sArtinly did take
the property ; but I liopes your Vurship. will forgive •me
this ere time, and show a little animosity towards me.—
(Laughter.)
He was fully committed for trial.

W 0 RSHIP- STREET.
A journeyman baker, of the name of Richard Wood,
summoned Mr. Lake, a master baker, before Mr. Twyronn,
for refusing to pay him his week's wages.
The complainant stated, that during the strike of the
journeymen bakers, he engaged himself in the service of
Mr. -Lake, knowing. him to be in want of a man. Since
the adjustment of the differences between the masters and
the men, the defendant has taken into his employ one of
the strongest Unionmen, who works at lower wages. He
(Nmplainant), therefore, had received his discharge, with-
out a week's notice.

Mr. Twvroan—l am to understand that there was a
contract between you for a week's notice.
Complainant—Either a week's notice or a week's wages.
The defendant replied that he engaged- the complainant
for three months. In about a fortnight's time, be absented
himsCif, and on pressing him (the defendant) again to em-
ploy him, defendant did so ; but there was then no contract
about a week's wages.
Mr. TWYFORD remarked that in that case the Act of
Parliament gave him no power to interfere.
The complainant replied that the original contract of a
week's notice or a week's wages was renewed, and he had
witnesses to prove the case.
James Jones said that he was in the bakehouse when he
heard the complainant promised by the defendant to do one
or the other. The foreman was there at the time. The
defendant engaged to give previous warning.
The defendant insisted that no warning was agreed upon
on either side, at the second engagement, and said his ser-
vant could prove it.
The maid servant was put into the witness-box, and stated
that she was in the parlour, the v•indow of which was open.
She heard all that was going forward in the bakehouse,
and her master never entered into any such agreement,
that alluded to by the complainant,
The complaining parties positively declared that she could
not hear in the situation she was.
The case was dismissed, the complainant being at liberty
to try his case in the Court of Requests.

THAMES OZTICE.

George Pearson, the mate of a ship now under repair
in Limekilns Dock, Limehouse, was charged with commit-
ting an outrageous and most uni, revoked assault on a lit-
tle boy named Benjamin Hammond.
The father of the complainant is employed in the dock,
and the boy had been occasionally engaged about the yard.
On Tuesday last Pearson offered. the child 2d. for every
pound of copper nails he picked. my from under the ship's
bottom, on which the little fellow exclaimed, " What ! do
you think I'll pick up the nails at 2d. a-dozen ?" The
words were scarcely out. of the boy's mouth when Pearson
seized a broomstick and belaboured the boy in a most un-
merciful manner over the back and shoulders. In proof of
the severity of the punishment, the boy was ordered to
strip, and he displayed the marls of severe bruises on his
back and arms. _ _ _ .

Mr. BALLANTITE-4 saw the state of the boy when he
applied for the warrant. His flesh was swollen and disco-
loured, and his mother said the child was in such pain that
he could not sleep all night. P earson's only excuse was, that
the boy was saucy.
Mr. BRODERIP said the mate: was a very cowardly ruffian.
He had no hesitation in telling him so, and he doubted
whether he would have struck a man of his own age and
size had he been present, Fo r this brutal assault, he must
pay a fine of 405.. to the King, and 7s. costs.