The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-05 00:00:00

2IIIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-July 4.

The July General Quarter Sessions of the Peace
for the county of Middlesex commenced this morn-
ing at the Guildhall, Westminster, before Mr. Bod-
kin (Assistant-Judge)' Mr. Payne (Deputy), Mr.
Halswell, Mr. Gould, Mr. Hcgarth, Mr. Dunning-
ton Fletcher, Sir James Tyler, Mr. G. B. Wolsev,
Mr. H. White, Mr. H. H. Harwood, Mr. Bashford,
Mr. Parbury, and other justices. The number of
prisoners for trial was 72, of whom 64 were charged
with felony, and eight with misdemeanour.
The Assistant-Judge delivered a short charge,to
the grand jury.
John Wilkinson, 38, servant, was indicted for
stealing a silver cup and other articles, value £6,
the property of O'Neil Seagrave, his master, in his
dwelling-house. He pleaded guilty.
Mr. Ribton, for the prosecution, said the pri-
soner had been butler to the prosecutor, Mr.
Seagrave, a gentleman residing in Gloucester-
row, Portman-square, and in consequence of
something which had occurred awakening
suspicion as to his honesty, a search was made in
the pantry. A silver drinking cup and some forks
were missed, and pawnbrokers' duplicates relating
to the property were found in the prisoner's posses-
tion. The prisoner had been making this use of his
master's plate since December last, having entered
she service only in the preceding month. Mr.
Seagrave had with him a very good character from
a lay of- title, in whose service he had been, and
there was every reason to think this was his first
offence.

The Assistant-Judge said these cases must always
be regarded in a very serious light. The prisoner
was one of a class of persons whose position in life
was really one of independence. They had good liv-
ing found them, and were surrounded by almost
every comfort, with but very little of the cares of
life upon them ; all they had to do was to discharge
their duty honestly to their employers. It was not
the case of a mars tempted by want to commit a
theft, but that of a confidential servant in a com-
fortable situation stealing his master's plate. He
sentenced the pii.s'oner to 12 months' hard labour.
Thomas Roberts, 30, musician, was indicted for
stealing a book, four £lO notes, one £5 note, a
cheque for £lO, and a cheque for £5 18s. 11d., the
property of John Milton, in his dwelling-house. He
pleaded guilty.
The prosecutor, a grocer, in Great Marylebone-
street, stated, in answer to the Court, that on the
afternoon of the Ist of July a horse and chaise drove
ip to his door, and he went out to speak to the ,
person driving, when the prisoner slipped into
his shop. -The driver of the chaise kept his atten-
tion for about half a minute, pretending to be
looking for a shilling to pay for a pot of jam he had
ordered, but seeing the prisoner behind the counter
he went into the shop, and demanded to know what
business he had t.hoore. The prisoner said he wanted
to make some one hear, nobody being in the shop,
but as he only wanted a few stamps, he would call
again. Prisoner then ran away, and next mo-
ment he missed his cash-book which had been
kept on the back of the counter, behind a desk.
Prosecutor gave chase, and, after a sharp pursuit, the
prisoner was captured and taken babk to the shop,
when he produced the book • from his coat pocket.
It contained the notes and cheques mentioned in
the indictment. The man in the chaise was no
doubt an accomplice of the prisoner, and had not
since been heard of.
The prisoner had nothing to say. Re merely
begged for mercy on account of Ms wife and child.
The Assistant-Judge said the Court Was always
merciful as far as was compatible with the due pro-
tection of the public. This was a very. audacious
tunindh effected in itnhaat
robbery, concocted by two men,
manner which left but little doubt
it was not the first transaction of the kind in which
the prisoner had been engaged. Luckily for him
he was not known,had he been,the sentence would
be very different from that which he should now
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structedy Mr. to inform the Court that the prisoner had
only just come up from Liverpool, and had been
made use of by the other man to commit this rob-
bery.
Evidence could be given of his former good
character by a respectable person living in London
to whom the prisoner was related, and it was true
that he had a wife and child—the latter only a
fortnight old.
The Assistant-Judge said if this were so, it
would not alter the complexion of the case ; the
prisoner had been very leniently dealt with.
HAMPTON COURT AND HAMPTON V. THE COUNTY
RATE.
The rate assessed upon these two places of
£21,854 was reduced by consent to £15,181, in ac-
cordance with the principle of rating laid down in
a special case by the Court of Queen's Bench.
Mr. Metcalfe appeared for the appellants, Mr.
Poland for the county.
Mr. Payne presided in the Second Court, and
disposed of several cases.

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P 0 YAL "PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
&IV Under the Bis.;2_4 ement of Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING will be presented Shakapeare's historical
gay of KING HENRY V.
lung Henry V., Mr. C. Kean; Cha_ss, Mrs. C. Kean.
after which, IF THE CAP FI IS.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARN.ET.
Lessee, Mr. J. 13. Buckatone.
THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
a stew Comedy, entitled THE CONTESTED ELECTION, in
'lach Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews will appear,
After which, MY MOTHER'S MAID.
To conclude with THE WATER WITCHES.
Commence at 7.

IV-ENV THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPIii•
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Ben, . Webster.
THIS EVENING, ICI ON FABLE FRANCAIS. Messrs.,
J. L. Toole, Chas Szlby, Billington ; Misses Keeley, Arden
and Laidlaw. and Mrs. Billington.
Followed by THE HOD'SE ? or, THE HOME ? Kr. A.
11,71gan, C, Selby, Billington ; Mrs. Alfred Wlgan, Miss H.
Simm Wig
s. Miss Laidlaw.
Followed by THE FIRST NIGHT. Mr. Alfred an,
Mr. Billington, Miss M. Keeley.
After which, THE RIFLE VOLITNTEERS. Messrs. C.
seby and Moreland; Misses Woolgar and K. Kelly.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.
Doors open at a quarter-past six—C,ommence at seven. Box
Office openfrom 10 to 5 —no charge for booking. No fees to
servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and 'Directress, Miss Swanborongh
THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
THE SPITALFIELDS' -WEAVER. Mr. J. Rogers.
After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses
Bwanborough. Oliver, and Lavine.
To oonclude with KENILWORTH.
Commence at 7 o'clock.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE—This Evening
LOUIS XI. Messrs. Hermann Vezin, B. Potter, C.
Calvert, Mrs. C. Calvert.
To conclude with THE MASKED MOTHER.

CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS
V GALLERY. Westminster-road.—Open at Seven.
EVERY EVENING during the week will appear
THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY,
Consisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette,
and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively,
EIGHT years. FOUR, SIX, and
The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some
of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios evc:
written for the violin, has wonder and admi-
ration in Continental MusicaCircles, and drawn forth enthu-
siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France
and Belgium.
They will perform EVERYEVENING, at NINE and
ELEVEN o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments.

PEEL, " the great Parliamentary middleman"-
-CHARLES VILLIERS, long overlooked as one of
the foremost among the principal authors of the
Free Trade system, has at last (not, however,
as we have seen, until he is fifty-nine

years of age) assumed the high distinc-
tion he has long since so signally merited.

....
He is no longer grudgingly admitted into the outer
circle--among the administrators " Not in the
Cabinet." lie is one of the sacred number of the
Sixteen. And the particular department over
which Mr. VILLIERS has now been placed most
sagaciously by the Premier, is, among all the vari-
ous departments of the public service, perhaps the
very one for the discharge of the duties of which
the right honourable gentleman is most peculiarly
and happily qualified. As one of the Commissioners
of Inquiry into the operation of the Poor-laws, Mr.
VILLIERS is surely "the right man in the right

place," when installed, as we now rejoice to see him
installed, as President of the:Poor-law Board in this
new Coalition Government.
It cannot be forgotten--we at any rate, for one,
have not by any means forgotten—how entirely
the great services done to the cause of Free Trade
by CHARLES VILLIERS were contemned and posi-
tively ignored in 1845-1846 by almost universal
consent. When everyone else almost who had
striven in any -way- to advance those beneficent
principles received the utmost possible degree of
exaggerated glorification CHARLES VILLIERS,
who had fought the good fight for years and years
previously in the House of Commons, was abso-
lutely, with the majority, lost sight of altogether.
Precisely the same ungrateful treatment was the
recompense awarded simultaneously to another
great but overlooked champion of. Free Trade,
General (then Colonel) PEYRONNET THOMPSON, the
gifted author of the witty Cord Law Catechism,
originally published in the pages of the Westmin-
ster _Review. Nothing, absolutely nothing, was
given—even empty praise—at the time of the
triumph of Free Trade Principles, either to
PEYRONNET THOMPSON or to CHARLES VIL-
LIERS in recognition of their resplendent ser-
vices in the cause of the advancement of
those principles, during the period when the
advocates of them might be counted almost on one's
fingers ! Yet at the very same time Sir ROBERT.
PEEL was allowed, as he nobly deserved to be, Sir
ROBERT was allowed by general acclamation—
(simply because of his magnanimous recognition of
the truth at the eleventh hour)—to cap the climax
of his enviable popularity and immense reputation !
Mr. COBDEN receiving from that great statesman's
generosity not merely the lion's share, but actually
the whole of the glory of the triumph, just won,
as Sir ROBERT said, by the hon. gentleman's
" unadorned eloquence." Mr. COBDEN got more
even than this—he received, in fact, all but " a
plum," in truth exactly £70,000 as a national
testimonial. Mr. WILSON fingered in his
turn a minor testimonial to the tune of £lO,OOO
sterling. And so on with some of the others.
But CHARLES VILLIERS' reward was—Nothing.
PEYRONNET THOMPSON'S reward was—Nothing.
Precisely, in the same way—the Times, which had
been dead against Free Trade during all the years
throughout which the principles of Free Trade had
been earnestly, strenuously, and preseveringly advo-
cated by The Sun—our contemporary, the Times,
because it recognised the truth at last, and at the
eleventh hour declared the League to be " a great
fact," monopolised the credit to which it had no
title whatever, namely, that of doing yeoman's
service to the cause in what WILLIAM
WYNDHAM dubbed nearly a century since, the
fourth estate ! And now, the Times, whose silence
in Mr. VILLIERS' regard in 1815-1816 helped .to
ignore his really great services in the advancement
of Free Trade principies—the Times again is con-
verted at the eleventh hour, or rather it should be
said now actually at the twelfth—the Times is
induced to acknowledge Mr. VILLIERS' claims to
reward—only, however, when Mr. VILLIERS has
been rewarded ! We, at any rate, have not waited
for any such signal for this particular recognition.
We, at any rate, have all along appreciated the
merits, the career, the services of the right. hon.
gentleman the member for Wolverhampton, now
one of the Sixteen Ministers of the Crown, under
the revived title of the Coalition Government.

What is this extraordinary statement in regard
to the electioneering compromise down at War-
minster ? It is surely scarcely credible that any
Liberal nobleman in the land can have authorised
proceedings so outrageously unconstitutional ! Yet
according to the explicit statement contained in
the last number of our provincial contemporary,
the _Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette, we are to be-
lieve that the Marluis of LANSDOWNE tolerated
acts in no way in accordance with his most honour-
able reputation. According to that local newspaper
the inquiries recently instituted in reference to the
late Election Riot at Calne were prematurely brought
to a close by a compromise, appended to the record
of which we find in the journal aforesaid this
astounding and really scarcely conceivable an-
nouncement,--," Lord SHELBURNE and his agent
at Bowood," says the the reporter of the Devizes
Gazette " had been subpoenaed for the defence ; and
had the case proceeded, it has been publicly stated
that it would have been proved that on the morning
of the nomination 120 labouring men employed upon
Lord LANSDOWNE'S estates were summoned to
Bowood, where they were regaled with strong beer,
put into companies of twenty, ordered to go into
Caine in different directions, so as not to appear
coming from Bowood, and having seen Mr. LowE
and his friends safe in the Town-hall, to take pos-
session of the front of the building and not let any
body go in, which instructions, it is stated, they
carried out, as far as they could ; as it was only
by great efforts on the part of several voters not
belonging to Mr. LowE's party, that they were
able to effect an entrance into the hall—that after
the nomination, having accompanied Mr. LOWE
back to his quarters, they were again refreshed,
and a large number of the strongest of them
were selected, and ordered to come again
on the morrow." Nor is this all: • the
reporter adds, 6' The object of subpoenaing
Lord c
LatELBURNE was to prove from his own lips
his knowledge of the above arrangement, he having
been present at the assemblage of the men in the
court-yard at Bowood." And furthermore, "It
having got wind that it was intended to bring
these facts and others of an intimidating nature
beforethe public had, it is said, considerable influ-
ence in bringing about
the compromise, and of thus
setting at liberty the whole of the defendants."
Are we to accept all this
as proven, or as admitted ?
Will Lord SHELBURNE remai •
n. silent under the
direct, and Lord LANSDOWNE under the indirect,
imputation ? Will the" agent at B
°wood" breathe
not a syllable in rejoinder ? While we are " paus-
ing for a reply," we are driven irresistibly to reflect
upon the sufficiently remarkable coincidence that
Mr. LowE's electioneering history abounds so oddly
with these unpleasant kind of rumours and re-
miniscences. " 'Tis passing strange !" Whether
the locality be Calne or Kidderminster, " it's all
one for that !" There are brick-bats flying—heads
broken—(once it happened, by the way, to be the
right hon. gentleman's own !)—there are riots.--