The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-21 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE.

James Howard, a labourer, and Mary his wife, were
charged with the murder of Matthew Tierney, a middle-
aged mechanic, who with his family lived at 23, John street,
Edgeware-road.

It appeared that the deceased was sitting on the bed by
the side of his wife, who was ill, when the prisoners called
to see them, and a quarrel ensuing between the deceased
and the female prisoner respecting a young woman, a despe-
rate fight took place, which continued upwards .of twenty
minutes, during which time the deceased was several times
thrown violently down. The female prisoner, while the de-
ceased was lying in a helpless state, was seen to tear his
eyes and Lae with her nails in a savage manner, while her
husband. grasped the deceased by the throat, and nearly
strangled him. The police entered, but their presence could
not prevent the friends of the prisoners dragging the de-
ceased down into the street, where ho was given in charge
of as being the first assailant, and, upon the oath of some
Irishmen, held to bail. Soon after his liberation he was
confined to his bed, and be died on' Friday. One of the
surgeons who attended the deceased sent a certificate to
the Magistrates, in which he gave it as his opinion that the
deceased's death was owing to an inflainmation of the wind-
pipe ; but another surgeon declined making any statement
until after the inquest.
- Mr. SHUTT did not consider there was sufficient proof at
present to warrant him to remanding the prisoners, and he
discharged them with an understanding that they would at-
tend after the inquest.
A well-dressed young man, who gave his name J. Knight,
was charged with robbing the house of Mrs. Charles Arland,
residing in Upper Harley-street.
It appeared that the prisoner was observed, about two
in the afternoon, leaving the butler's pantry with a bundle,
and, on being asked what he wanted, he threw down the
bundle, and endeaveured, to escape, but was secured. It
was then ascertained, that he had packed up a rnmsive
silver tea-pot, sugar-basin, coffee-biggin, and other articles
of plate.

The prisoner was committed to Newgate for

• W OR SHIP-STREET.
The Overseers of St. Luke's parish attended for the
purpose of-restoring a child to its parents, having had it
under their care in consequence of its alleged starvation.
The child was taken from the parents about ten weeks
age. 'when examined on that occasion as to its contracted
and diminutive appearance, they stated that it was caused
by the "defectiveness of its digestive organs. The Magi-
strates, however, thought it best to have it taken from the
parents;:atid put under the care of the parish. It soon re-
gained a state of health, and when shown in the Ccurt
yesterday, presented a plump and ruddy appearance. The

Mr. O'Connell, as our readers will perceive from the
report we have given elsewhere, has visited the metro-
polis of Scotland. Above 1,500 of its citizens assem-
bled at the entertainment which was:given to him. The
cordial and enthusiastic feeling displayed by the people
9f Edinburgh on this occasion, must have been grati-
fying in the highest degree to its object, and reflects
credit•upon the just and patriotic sentiments of our
Northern countrymen. It must be an additional incen-
tive to Mr. O'Connell to persevere in that rational and
temperate course, which has cemented the union of the
Reform party during the late Session, and conferred so
many essential advantages upon the cause of good and
liberal Government. 'We doubt not that the eloquent
speech of the Honourable and Learned Gentleman at
the Edinburgh dinner will he read with the attention
which it deserves. The Tories will, doubtless, suffer
under additional paroxysms of rage at the sight of so
much honour paid to the man whom, through every;
channel and organ of their party, they constantly and
t±:7-o*..Omnell May .afford- to
laugh at their spiteful and impotent malice ; and the
very violence with which he is so unceasingly assailed
by the vile hacks of this precious faction tends only
to make the public the more indulgent to the imper-
fections of its object, and more inclined to accord to
him their best sympathies and most cordial approba-
tion. One miserable hack of the Anti-Reforming or
" 0.-informing" crew taunts Mr. O'Connell by assert-
ing that " Nothing but want of courage prevents him
from involving his country in rebellion.''. The apos-
tate print which holds this language knows the asser-
tion to be a miserable-falsehood ; but we can tell the
Times that its lies and its menaces are alike thrown
away, and that Mr. O'Connell will not be' tempted to
move out of-the even tenor of his way, to suit the pur-
poses of this hired renegade or its Tory masters. Mr.
O'Connell's influence over his countrymen will, we
doubt not, be continued to be employed in repressing
outrages, and furthering the cause of peaceable and
legal Reforms. We can well-imagine that the Thies,
which talked the other clay about " baring its sinewy
'arms," must be rather disappointed at finding that
thi2re is really so little chance of a low, and that its
new patrons will be beaten in the most, quiet and or-
derly manner. How hard that Mr. O'Connell will not
indulge the Thies with an opportunity of evincing its
own superlative valour, and trio hulling Englishmen by
a display of Irish outrage and rebellion. As to its
assertion, that " the Ministerial journals are ordered
to record Mr. O'Connell's glories and the subjugation
of their wretched masters," we are only surprised that
having made so valuable a discovery, the Times did
-not blazon it forth in a second or third edition. The
Chronicle pays attention to Mr. O'Connell, because
the people of-England, of Scotland, and of Ireland pay
attention to Mr. O'Connal ; and the " wretched"
scribes themselves, by their rancorous and incessant
abuse, pay homage to the commanding talents and ac-
knowledged importance of the nu!ln whom they both fear
and hate ; and the more so, because they have just
sense enough to appreciate the valuable ,assistance
which he has by his eloquence and his sagacity brought
to bear against their own " wretched masters," and in
defence of that worst of all inflictions to Tory scribes—
a liberal and reforming Government.—Morn. Chron.

Mr. O'Connell proceeds on his tour with in-
creasing triumph. The reception he everywhere
meets with is gall and wormwood to the Tories. At
first the Standard, and other organs of the party, af-
fected to feel delighted at the idea of his visiting Man-
chester, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, (Sze., but they
have already changed their minds. The journey, which
at first was to have been perfectly harmless, and which
.could answer no other purpose than that of exhibiting
the folly of both " the feasters and the fed," is now, it
seems, discovered to be the precursor of a complete re-
volution, the first fruit of which is to be the destruction
of the House of Lords. If the House of Lords is to
be destroyed, Mr. O'Connell will be as guiltless of
producing the "calamity " as the Great Mogul him.
self. The blame will lie on parties of a very diffe-
rent character. It will attach to persons nearer home.
Should the country deem the annihilation of the Upper
House a loss of such serious magnitude as to resolve
on arraigning the parties who brought about the ca-
tastrophe, it will have to confine its punishment to
the maiority of the very persons who con4iture that
branch 'of thJ Lellislature. It is the Newcastles, the
Cumberlands, the Londoiiderries, the Winchilseas, the
Lyndhursts, in a word, the Tory party in that House,
which have involved it in all its present manifold and
imminent perils. Mr. O'Connell, in declaring, where-
ever he goes, that this great nation- will no longer suf-
fer an irresponsible oligarchical body to stand between
the people and their just rights, is only expressing a
feeling which is shared by almoSt every man from one
end of the country to the other. The most infatuated.
of the Peers themselves are beginning to see the fright-
ful state---frieditful to themselves, not to .the people—
into which they have brought the Upper House ; and,
therefore, like every other delinquent, they would fain
transfer the responsibility • to the shoulders of 'some
other party. If they can case their own troubled
cpnleiences by their futile attempts to throw the blame
• •O'Connell, we are sure that gentleman will
not. trudge them the miserable consolation. Mr.
O'Connell is undoubtedly a man Of great ta-

Every day furnishes instances of the working of the
Poor Law. Act in tliat most important of all particu-
lars, its taking away from Magistrates the power of
compelling parish officers to afford succour and relief
to. poor persons in-urgent and extreme cases. And if
this occurs, as it does, in the metropolis, under the
eye of a vigilant press, what is not likely to be the
extent of . this evil ,in *l3,4ry parisliss where no such
surveillance and terrdreti'eYil dOers't:tist ? It is im-
possible not to be struck with the severe measure which
has been dealt out to the poor in this particular in-
stance. It is stated, and not untruly, perhaps, that
a portion of the Magistracy were either ignorant of,
or exceeded their duty, and were mainly instrumental
in creating and establishing that great head of abuse
which consisted in converting the poor-rates into the
source from which a great proportion of wages was
paid. Without stopping to inquire whether the Legis-
lature, by looking on quietly at this practice for a se-
ries of ycars, (lid not justify and almost legalise the
practice, we would ask, in a solitary error of this
kind, however wide its extent, a sufficient reason
fur taking away from these persons every other autho-
rity they possessed, especially those powers
.which
were given them to protect the weak against the
•
strong, and which made them, as in. the in-
stance to which we allude, the sole refuge for ab-
solute destitution in the hour of impending famine ?
No one, we are convinced, can witness the attempts
which are now making to break up the very elements
of society, without perceiving that the main instrument
employed by the apostles of mischief is to set the dif-
ferent ranks of society against each other, especially
the poor against the rich, by persuading the latter that
the former are their enemies and oppressors. Untrue
as this is. in the abstract, and flagitious as the motive
with which it is urged, we fear that the Act whose
operation we are discussing has had but too much to
do in creating, in fostering, and promoting this im-
pression ; and that the highly-susceptible classes to
whom this language is addressed, but too readily
seize on such. practical illustration as this law appears
to them to afford of the mischievous doctrines so sedu-
lously inculcated by persons to whom it matters nothing
that the exception should pass-for the rule. But
what would a wise Legislature, would a parental, a
Christian Government do in such circuinstances ?
Would they aid the delusion, or lose no time in dissi-
pating it ? Would they not strive to convince the
poor man that he was labouring under ait error, that
the demagogue was misleading and insulting his under-
standing by specious untruths ? And would they not,
above all things, set about removing any stamp, or even
colour of reality which their own acts had given to his
assertions ? But here have the Legislature and the Go-
vernment broken down the main stay and solace of the
poor ins the hour of want and affliction, the sole arbi-
trement -to which his wrongs could have recourse, and,
whether real or imaginary, take vent. " But," say
the cold-blooded Malthusians, " Do not you see how
admirably our measure works ? Do not you perceive
the thousands which by its operation (not at all owing
to the low price of bread and other commodities) we
have saved the country ? And would you have us give •
back to those who have done the mischief the means
of renewing it ?" We have never denied the existence
of great abuses in the administration of the poor laws
—we have never wished to impede their correction—
but, as in the case of other reforms, we would amend,
not destroy ; and in this of the poor laws we would
prevent the Magistrates from doing , mischief (sup-
posins, they are the persons who have done it), but
would make them still the instruments, as their very
institution intends them to be, of doing good. Let the
power be restored to them of ordering . and enforcing
relief in all cases of undoubted poverty and distress.
Let not, as now, the prison lie converted into the poor
house, and committal as a criminal be the only means
of rescuing destitution from death. That such is now
the case is .quite notorious—nor can we speak or feel
otherwise than with contempt of the Nvell-led philoso-.
phers who can first -create the evil, and then boast of it
as a benefit.-11forning Herald.
. Our attention has been recalled to the pamphlet of
the " Reform Ass-ociation," relative to the Irish
Church 13i11, by an article in a Ministerial evening
print of Saturday. That article is perhaps the most
remarkable even among, the most recent Whig speci
mens of impudent mendacity, which would be saying a
vass deal, had it not by this time been proved beyond
a doubt that it is with the Ministerial supporters, and
especially on this subject, as it is with the coarse clowns
who figure at country fairs and penny theatres. If- one
•of these motley mummers should happen to hit upon
something, so exquisitely foolish or knavish as to pro-
mise to take with the crowd, another instantly sets about
rivalling his brother buffoon, and to that end will out-
rage all decency both in word and action, rather than be
set down as only second fool or second knave of the
company. The master merryman of the Reform Ass-
ociation performed a tolerably extravagant feat when
he attempted to prove that the Irish Church Bill was
a.good measure of reform ; and reproached the Tories
with obstructing its progress ; but his performance has
filled another of the low supernumeraries attached to
the company cf his Majesty's servants at Westminster
with so great jealousy, that he declares, four or five
times over in the space of a few sentences, that not
only the Irish Church Bill, which the Tories have ob-
structed, a good measure of scram, but that the Tories
have declared that there ought to be no r(forin at all
in the Irish Church I Bravo, Reform Association !
Bra. vilsimo, Globe ! Who says the Chancellor of the
Exchequer cannot afford to take off. the " taxes on
knowledge," as the, stamp-duty on newspapers is
called, and with what propriety our readers cannot in
this instance at least fail to see ? Let him impose a
tax of 2d. upon every lie—every plain, palpable, and
wilful lie—published in newspapers,' and we will ven-
ture to say that the Whig press alone will- furnish him
with an amount of revenue sufficient to cover not only
the stamp-duty but the malt-tax into the bargain.
But, to deal seriously with the matter—there has
really been found a ministerial hireling base and stupid
enough to attempt to bring the opponents of his masters
into disrepute, and to deceive the ignorant into whose
hands his trash may fall by this unblushing false-
hood :—" The Tories declare that the interests of the
Protestant Church demand that there shall be no re-
form at all." Nor is this all. Not contented with
urging this monstrous charge in the teeth of all Sir R..
Peel's declarations, that no one desired more earnestly
than himself to effect the removal of every abuse from
the establishment, whether in this country or in Ire-
land, and with the full knowledge of that evidence of
the sincerity of the Right Hon. Baronet, which is to
be found in the Ecclesiastical Commission appointed
at the very outset of his Administration, to say
nothing of his having taken the first step towards
effecting a practical and efficient Church Reform, by
attaching cures of souls to ecclesiastical dignities, as
they became vacant, and so commencing the abolition
of sinecures in the Church—not contented, we say, with
the general and sweeping calumny, the wretelied writer