The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-22 00:00:00

WEST DRAYTON.

By the Tories

Sustained
TRUSTEES.

There were several persons in this district who put in
their claims to vote as being trustees.
Mr. COVENTRY said that he and Mr. Martin had care-
fully considered this point, and that Mr. Martin was of
opinion that trustees in receipt of rents were not entitled to
vote, unless they received them for their own absolute use
and advantage. From this view of his learned colleague
he dissented ; for he thought that trustees in the receipt of
rents were, on that ground, qualified to be placed on the list
of voters. Mr. Martin has, however, given me a very good
suggestion on ibis matter. It is this : That we should
allow all these cases of trustees to remain over till the end
of our circuit ; and if, at the end of that time, we find the
present difference in our opinions still to subsist, that we
should endeavour to get a third barrister, appointed, and be
decided IP; his opinion upon the question.
Mr. MARTIN observed, that there were two parts of
the Act *hearing upon this question, which appeared to be
directly contradictory. He had, therefore, suggested, for
that reas on, and because it was almost impossibl that they
should IJO able tt.' get through all the business allotted to
them, that the Lore,' Chief Justice should be applied to for
the a ppointment of a thi-d barrister.
The arrangement aPilltu-ed to give satisfaction to all
I'''xt;es. •
claim was put in by
n the' poi* of West Drayton.. ~,.

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an Independant clergyman, which itii-olved a question of
',some interest. It appeared that the Rev. M. Fuller, and
three others, were the trustees of an Independent Chapel
of which he (Mr. Fuller) was the Minister. It was con-
tended by Mr. Copock, in support of the claim, first, that
clergyman had a life interest in the property ; and next,
that he being a trustee in possession, his co-trustees were
equally entitled to be placed on the list of voters. It was
decided by the barristers that his appointment to the office
of Minister constituted pinta facie proof that he had a free-
,...7terest in copyhold property. They were of opinion,
hold
therefore, It'zt'his claim should be allowed. With respect
to the other trnst:2 es, however, they could not admit their
Mr.. Fuller received the rents and
profits of the chapel—and
right, as it appeared tba:
thtat if he could be said to act in
i
the capacity of trustee at
all, i was only for the purpose
of paying the receipts over to himself.
With the exception of the trusti9e cases already referred
to the barristers disposed of all the other objections, and
rose at a little after four o'clock.

CAPTAIN MARRYAT'S " FRANK MILWIAY,
OR, THE NAVAL OFFICER"—the three volumes in one, for
Gs. bound, with a portrait of the author and vignette. The
a;;pve will form the October number of Colburn's Novelists ;
and, as the demand is already very considerable, those who
desire to have it on the (lay of publication arc requested to
forward their orders by the 28th instant at laiest, to pre-
vent disappointment. - Published for Henry Colburn by R.
Bentley. Agents for Scotland, Bell and Bradfute, Edin-
burgh : for Irehod—John Cumming, Dublin. It is also
supplied by every bookseller throughout the kingdom.
In all France, during the year 1831, only twenty-
five persons were executed, Pf whom twenty-three had been
convicted of murder. The sai.ne year in England alone the
number executed was fifty-two, (,f whom twelve had been
convicted of murder. Hence in Ft nee only two, but in
England, with a vastly smaller population, no fewer than
" forty," exclusive of murderers, died by the hands of the
executioner.

Among the arguments against capital punishment
it should not be forgotten that. it has failed -to at: extraor-
dinary degree. " Experience" at various periods, and in
different countries, is against its infliction. " Crime had
ilourii.'hcd most nodes- sanguinary laws." Compare the
States in which the penalty of death is either abolished, or
but death rarely executed, such as Tuscany, or Holland, or
the United Stags of America.

Mushrooms.--On Monday week a lady gathered
a mushroom on the Black Isle, of the following extraordi-
nary dimensions :—lt measorcd 17 inches round, 8i- across
on the outside, and 6 across the inside of the cup. When
cut in pieces, the thickness was nearly two inches. As it
was dressed and eaten at dinner, there can be no doUbt of
its being a real mushroom, and of the finest possible fla-
vour.—lnverness Courier.

On Wednesday, the•9th instant, a girl named Pris-
cilla Hill was committed to the county gaol, by the Rev.
Richard Buller and Arthur Tatham, Esq., charged with
the murder of her illegitimate child, which, it appears, she
buried alive, immediately after its birth, in an orchard be-
longing to Mr. Doney, a farmer of St. Neot's, in whose
service she lived ; she was also committed on a charge of
concealing the birth. Suspicious appearances on the part
of the wretched girl led to an inquiry, which terminated,
in the discovery of the body of the infant, and the esta-
blishment of facts that induced the magistrates to commit
the prisoner on a capital charge.— West Briton.
SMOKING A HARE.—Some poachers have lately
found out a new method of facilitating the capture of the
hares. They merely lay their nets at some particular gate
or stile or at some hare-run in the hedge, and then go
round to all the other gaps and runs in the hedges and
whiff tobacco over them. So delicate is the smell of the
hare, that she will not go through where the tobacco has
been, and of course seeks an ogres: free from taint; where
there is sure to be a net or wire, and thus she is caught.
There is a small farmer near Inverary who has in
his family his son, his grandson, his great-grandson. and his
great-great-grandson. Another farmer living on Loch-
Fine side when he was married bought a bedstead for 20d.
on which his spouse has given birth to 21 children.
The Editor of the Northampton (American)
Courier, speaking in his last of tight lacing., says—" It has
been aptly remarked that a husband's arms are the only cor-
sets nature designed for the female waist. We like the
suggestion much, and ever since, as we have a pair unoccu-
pied, have been half in a mind to offer them for the use of
some young lady."
EXTRAORDINARY TEA PARTY.-011 Wednes-
day week, 750 persons took tea together at Banbury, in the
great malthouse recently erected by Mr. Austin, the object
of the meeting being to increase the funds for supporting
the Wesleyan Chapel.
MURDER.—On Saturday last a man named Luke
Murphy was attacked in the street, in Kingstown, by a
man named Patrick 11I'Malion, a stone-cutter, who beat
him so severely that he died yesterday morning. On
Wednesday Sir Wm. Lynar took Murphy's depositions
against M'Mahon, and issued a warrant for his apprehen-
sion, he having absconded after the perpetration of this
inhuman act. He was yesterday taken by the two con-
stables to whom the warrant was entrusted, while working
at some building in Clontarf.—Dublin Register.

ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE.-011 Sunday mornuag
last, some evil-minded ruffians killed a valual4e mare, be-
longing' to a man named Connelly, on the lands of Annagh,
parish of 1-.'nllymacward, in the county of Galway. When
she was discoycred by the owner, she was struggling in the
pangs of death, and on examining her, he found that her
body had been 'penetrated in two places, one in the counter,
ovitiently with a cane .word, the other on the left kidney,
seemiugly with a scythe, through which the entrails pro-
truded ; and on a strict examination she was found to have
been carryivg two foals. The police hizstened to the spot,
and made every possible search in their power, but no trace
or clue has been yet found, which:could lead to the appre-
hension of any of the iPerpetrators of this outrage.—
Athlone Indepcn.lent.
The public are well aware, says the Liverpool
Albion, of the frequent and desperate efforts made by the
Tories under Lord Sandon, during the late session of Far-
. liament, to transfer the Annual grant voted by the pa-
rishioners in vestry to theli,?.etors, and saddle it as a com-
pulsory payment upon the funds. of the Corporation. And
they are also aware, that this cotable scheme was over-
turned, by the vigilance of Mr. Ewalt, as often as it was
brought forward. But the Tories are not men prone to fall
into despair. In the present instance, the story goes that,
under the counsel of the saintly Sandon, they have come to
the determination of further endowing their churches be-
fore they are put up to sale. If such a job has been for a
moment contemplated, it is the most shameless we ever
heard of. Fortunately, there is a clause in the new Muni-
cipal Bill which will effectually prevent the fraudulent
alienation of corporate property ; but, taking the will for
the deed, we do not recollect any case more justly deserving
of public indignation and contempt.
We have read the American Papers up to the Ist
.ult. We take the following observations respect-
-1,;g• the causes of the late riots from the Boston Atlas:
._lt was the outcry raised by the Opposition against
the Pres:dent's seizure of the public treasure, which,
if we may believe the Post and the Republican, Was
the cause that led to the Baltimore riots, to the
massacre of the steam doctors in Mississippi, and to
the wide-spread triumphs of Judge Lynch. The merchants
of New York encouraged and sanctioned the " mobocratic
spirit, which has shown itself of late," when they shut up
their stores, and went peaceably with those under their em-
ploy, to oppose their votes to those of the .hordes of mer-
cenary aliens, who were driven to the Polls, like cattle to a
slaughter house, and instructed to 'browbeat and insult
native Americans. If we are to look any where for the
origin of this, spirit of mobocracy, it is to the conduct of
that man, whose influence over a great mass of our popular
tion has for the last five Years been so strong as to remain
unshaken even by his al•laitrary assumptions of undelegated
power. Is it surprising that with the example of such a
man before their ryes, elevated .to the most commanding
height in the nation, thousands of misguided persons should
catch that spirit of insubordination and impetuosity, which
he has so often and so signally displayed?
I;;CITEMENT IN NEW YORC.—The public in-
dignation jainst the small knot of plotters against the peace
of the Union,..known as the officers of tlh: Anti-Slavery So-
ciety, runs high, h2d but a spark is necesory to kindle it
into a blaze. For insttOee, Thompson, the for.”ign emissary,
arrived here, last week, Sigh a view, it was reprted and
believed, of delivering one of his inflammatory ha:angues
on Sunday. A proclamation. was tninediately issued pf an
incendiary character, and posted threntlo the city under the
significant name of " Judge Lynch," annonceing the arrival
of Thompson, and that he was then at the Honse of Lewis
Tappan—taking care to note the number and street. The
design was obviously to provoke to scenes of violence. The
Glasgow emissary, however, prudently withdrew, and his
friends deny that he came here to get up a 'meting, or to
speak. We received a copy of the handbill in qoestion, but
thought it inexpedient to 'notice it at the time ; and we
now learn that another inflammatory handbill, stained
" A Voice from the South," was posted about the city yes.
terday. With the Journal if Commerce, we say, let good
citizens set their faces like a flint against every such at-
tempt to excite the passions of the multitude ; and let the
police be vigilant in seeking out the authors of the mischief.
It is much easier to prevent mobs than to suppress them :
but come what will, the order of the city must be preserved.
The sad experience of Baltimore has taught a number of
lessons which it would be folly to forget. The Abolitionists
must be put,down hySher Meaus ; they cannot be by
this.—Anierirem Parr. .