The Sun.
London, England, 1832-11-27 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

It is not, as we stated yesterday, at all surprising
that the revolutionary faction in this country should
stir themselves to set up a sham coalition with the
Tories. The " Destroyers" would drag the nether
world for instruments of their subversive projects,
but that happily they have found them on the spot
The " Conservatives," who maintain that the high-
est wisdom and most solemn duty of an Englishman
is to keep all things as his ancestors left them, have
actually joined with the " Destroyers" in a scheme,
the final result of which (did it prove successful)
would be to inflict upon Great Britain so complete a
metamorphosis, that no man who had gone abroad
last year would, after another twelvemonth's emi-
gration, know the island again on his return. That
scheme is the overthrow of the Reform Ministry.
Lord Grey's Government happens to be one which
sustains the hopes of a vast number of upright and
enlight-end men, that our political condition may be
improved gradually, safely, and effectually, in spite
of the high Tories, who say that nothing requires to
be rectified, and of the Levellers, who see nothing
that deserves to be retained. The existing Minis-
try, therefore, stands in the way of both these fac-
tions, which aim alike at political power—to be
employed by one of them for the maintenance of the
vilest abuses, and by the other for the violation of
the most sacred rights and principles. We have all
witnessed the outrageous lengths which Toryism in
its desperation has recourse to. One day it outvotes
a Reform Minister,—rejects hisßlll,--forces him to
resign the government; and the next day attempts
to bribe the Sovereign, by a promise to carry through
the same or an equivalent reform measure as the
condition of succeeding to the vacant post. Anon,
--when the alternative of peace or war arises, and
when the dearest interests of this country and 0
Europe demand that the question should be amica-
bly and promptly settled, the party adverse to Great
Britain, in fact the public enemy, is conjured b.l
your noble-minded Tories not to yield a single point
to her earnest and just remonstrances, but to hold
out stubbornly, for no other purpose than to catch,
through a certain and bloody war, some chance of
expelling the Administration of Lord Grey, and af-
terwards carrying ox the same war which has been
made the pretext for his overthrow 1 But the most
lamentable and most instructive example of the folly
as well as malignity of faction is to be found in the
headlong haste with which the Conservatives, who
profess that our monarchy should be immutable,
have plunged into the pit dug for them by the " De-
structives," who would not leave one vestige of that
monarchy unobliterated. Such infatuation has never
been surpassed. It seems a weakness inherent in
men and parties who have long exercised political
ominion, to recognise no changes but those which
themselves experience, and to imagine that after a
fall from office they must, on the resumption of it,
find themselves as powerful as ever. The Irish
Orange faction, after the discomfiture of a dozen
successive plots for the re-establishment of their lost
ascendancy, have at last (some portion of them, ii
the Dublin Papers may be credited) fallen into that
moat clumsy of all snares—the cry for a " Repeal
of the Union," set up by O'Connell and his crea-
tures. This is rank madness, no doubt, in the pool
Orangemen, because, after effecting their " Repeal
of the Union," they would soon be told by the priest
and demagogue Parliament to march out of Ireland
with all the honours of war, but taking care to leave
their estates behind them. Mad as are these dupes
of the Catholic separatists, in the sister country,
bow much more sane are the English Conservatives
in tlo it courtship of the Movement faction here
How long would your rumpers,—your universal-suf-
frage men,—your no-taxation men,—your-no-gold-
and-silver-currency men,—your equitable-adjustment
men,—your advocates for a division of all property
among the labourers,—how long would such philoso-
phers and statesmen be plagued with the incumbrance
of their High Tory comrades? Nay, it is well worth
the consideration of the Duke of Wellington and his
friends. A confederacy with the High-Radicals fot
the expulsion of the Whigs from office, before the
reform law comes into full and steady operation,
would be one far the removal of their own best bar-
rier against the torrent of an indiscriminate and over-
whelming anarchy. Stripped of the safeguard now
afforded them by the interposition of Lord Grey's
Government, which has rallied round it all the most
respectable and educated portion of the British
people, the luckless Tories would make no stand--
no, not for an hour—against the " Movement" and
the mob. Once more then, my Lords and Gentle.
men, bethink ye of what ye are doing. Leap not
blindly down the precipice. The men with whom
you combine for the subversion of the Grey Cabinet
are they who talk of " remodelling our institutions."
Such artists will first melt down those institutions
before they can recast them. Are such the chosen
allies of Conservative Dukes and Courtiers ? The
latter may chuckle at the consciousness of a well-
contrived knavery ; but it is of betrayed and derided
foolishness that they will taste the bitter fruits.
Even now the " Destructives" are laughing at
heart on seeing the credulous alacrity with which
the Conservative gulls rush forward into the snare.

A scene was exhibited yesterday at the Crown
mid Anchor Tavern which trust be gratifying to
every honest man in: the country, and that for two
reasons; first, because it makes it quite clear that
the city of Westminster is about to be rescued from
the disgrace of its present representation ; and, se-
condly, because it shows to the world what an as'o-
nishing degree of insolence of temper and tyranny
of disposition may he found in men the business of
whose lives it has been to cringe to the rabble, and
who have even atta'ned to some degree of eminenci
by the mere act of pandering to its basest passions.
• The meeting was summoned by advertisement, " for
the purpose of adopting measures to promote the
re-election of Sir Francis Burdett and S;r J. Cam
Hohhouse." It was intended to be, and we believe it
was, a grand muster of the whole strength of the
two Ministerial Baronets. But their strength proved
to be weakness, for even in this their own meet-
ing, their opponents, albeit uninvited, and repre-
sented, therefore, in the assembly by a mere fortui-
tous detachment of the main body, turned out to
be far more numerous than their friends. We will
state the facts as they are given in The Sun (a 'Mi-
nisterial Paper it is proper to state) of last night,
and as we are quite sure they will not, after twelve
hours' time to garble, mutilate, and gloss, be given
in the Ministerial Papers of this morning. The
Chairman was that eminently respectable gentleman,
1. S. Duncomhe, Esq., M.P., who it will presently
lie seen did good service ; much better, indeed, than
a•iy man of a different order of respectability could
have done. The meeting consi,ted of upwards
of 2,000 persons, and they assailed the Chair li
-
man, when he rose to open the business, with
cheers, hisses, and groans, which continued
throughout the whole of his speech, so that it
was almost entirely inaudible. This is pretty
well to begin with as a , proof of the great
popularity of the Administration and its under-
lings and friends. The first resolution proposed to
this unpropitious meeting was an expression of con•
fidence in the two Ministerial Baronets, which of
course brought them both forward, and amidst
hisses, groans, and yells, mingled with cheers,
for there were some cheers, :hey lectured the.
worthy electors in good round terms upon the
folly and wickedness of being insensible to their
paramount claims and their transcendent merits.
The effect of their eloquence upon the meeting was'
great no doubt, for (we still quote the rapid and un-
sophisticated report of. our Evening Ministerial Con-
temporary) "the resolution was then pit, and car-
ried, as the Chairman said, by a majority of ten."
A majority of ten, announced by a friendly chairman,
i►r a meeting of upwards of 2,000 ! Huzza. Ten is
the main, and two gone. A resolution was then
proposed to the effect that the meeting lamented
and condemned the measures now adopting to op-
pose the return of Sir John Hobhouse. This
.was declared by the exemplary chairman to
be carried. However, " an immense number of,

hands was held up against it, and we should have
supposed," we quote The Sun, " that it was ne-
zatived by a great majority." " Three cheers
were given at the lower end of the room for the
show of hands just displayed, and three groans for
those who were in favour of the resolution. Some
Persons then called out, Three cheers for Colonel
Evans I' which were immediately given." How
popular the Administration must be when any con-
nection with it is sufficient to secure to a man such
enviable distinctions as are now showered upon the
Secretary at War. But the certainty of the defeat
of Sir Franc's Burdett and Sir John Cam Hoh-
house at this election, gratifying as it is, is still
of far less importance than the illustration their
conduct has afforded of the natural insolence and
tyranny of prosperous and elevated democrats.
These zealous and sincere champions of popular
representation speak of the seats for Westminster
as if they were theirs by right, and address the
.lectors as though they were their bound slaves.
The assumption of superiority which pervades the
whole of their speeches is not in the spirit of Eng-
lish Gentlemen, but of Turkish Bashaws. Even the
groans and hisses of their indignant audience seem
to have been insufficient to awaken them from the
dream of despotism in which, during their undis-
puted ascendancy in Westminster, they have per-
mitted themselves habitually to indulge. It is
plainly for the good of these gentlemen that they
should both be rejected, if it were only to infuse a
little sobriety into their exalted estimate of them-
selves, and a little justice into their present very low
appreciation of the sense and spirit of the inferior
classes of their countrymen. We omit all the inso-
lence which old " Glory" addressed to the meeting;
probably he had just been in conference with Earl
Grey, and had been recently puffed up with the
anticipated honour of the Peerage, so that civility
was scarcely to be expected from so great a man.
But the little candidate must be naturally arrogant,
or he would scarcely have ventured to say that by
'Timing his claims the electors " would cut up the
roots of good faith between man and man, and
leave nothing like sincerity in the dealings of the
world;" or to express his hope that they would
never endeavour to found public morality on pri-
vate infamy; or to assert that, " unless the elec-
tors brought forward some other charge against
him than the fact of his being in office, he must
call their conduct a mere trick to hide a_ paltry
design;" or to complain that if they did not elect
him they would tear the laurels by violence from his
victorious brow. This is now the language of Sir
J. C. flobhouse to the independent electors of West-
minster—language which it will at once be seen is
trot conceived in the tone or temper of a winning
man, or a man who deserves to win. The electors,
se should have thought, had a right to change their
representative without assigning any reason, unless
they thought fit, to their discarded Member. But
in the case of so eminent a person as the Secretary
at War it seems to be otherwise. They must ad-
vance reasons forsooth, and, what is still harder,
-uch reasons as will satisfy him, or good faith,
sincerity, and all public morality, are endangered,
and a fatal example presented to the world of
" trick," of " paltry design," "of violence," and of
infamy." How great a thing it is to have been
the idol of the rabble! How much greater still to
be the Secretary at War to an Administration
which can find pretexts for war in its determina-
tion and its pledges to remain always at peace.—
Horning Post.

We have received several valuable communica.
tions on the subject of the causes of the inequality
of rating to the assessed taxes, with regard to which
i meeting is to take place at the London Tavern
this day. Our correspondent, who dates his letter
from Monmouthshire, and who has been an assessor
twice—the first time in one of the largest towns in
he kingdom, and the second in a large country pa-
rish in a mining district—assures us that the asses-
sors are not to blame, but the surveyors. We wish
we could find room for the whole of his valuable
letter ; but we must confine ourselves, at present,
,co the following extract :

" The tax', in thenaselvez; are oppressive and odious, but the
machinery by which they are brought into operation renders
them still more so. We have first the Lords of the Treasury,
who appoint the surveyors. Secondly, the Commissioners, who
appoint the assessors. Thirdly, the assessor, who nominates
the collector. The first of these officers—the Lords of the
i Treasury--retain their posts sometimes for years, and may do
for life. The Commissioners for life, and the surveyor is only
removable when convicted of corrupt and vexatious practices;
whilst the two last.named officers—viz., the assessor and col-
lector—are renewable every year. The three first class of
officers have every opportunity afibrded of becoming thoroughly
conversant with their duties, and the nature of the various
and complicated acts of which they constitute the moving
power, whilst the two last, but particularly the assessor (who
is the most important officer after all), are removed from their
offices before they have had time to learn their duties. To
which class of society, may I ask, do these Lords of the Trea-
sury
and Commissioners belong? Do they not belong to the
very class who possess the splendid mansions you allude to, as
not being assessed at one-fourth their real value ? Is not the '
surveyor of their nomination ? Do not the Commissioners be-
long to the same'class, from whose ranks the Lords of the
Treasury are chosen ? Under these circumstances, may I not
fairly conclude, that the bias of the surveyor's mind must ne-
cessarily be in favour of those to whom he owes his situation ?
Look on the other hand, and from which class do we find the
assessors chosen ? Do we not find them selected from amongst
those who are crying out by reason of their oppression ? Is the
assessor likely intentionally to favour his oppressor? No. It
is to the surveyer we must attribute the evil of which you corn-
vlain ; his power to do mischief is almost unlimited; and though
it may appear to be curbed by the law, yet, from the ease with
which he can evade it, the law seldom or ever reaches him.
He has, too, the law-makers on his side, who will not fail to
palliate his faults, and retain him in their service, so long as he
casts their portion of the taxes on others. Let us examine his
power. The surveyors or inspectors appointed, or to be ap-
pointed, as herein mentioned, shall inspect and examine all the
returns of lists or declarations made by any persons chargeable
to any of the said duties, according to the directions of this Act,
and also the assessments, of any of the said duties, made for
any parish or place, as well before as after the Commissioners
shall have signed and allowed the said assessments ; and, before
such allowance, may correct and amend the same if he or they
shall see fit. Can anything be more monstrous than this ?
We have here a man, or set of men, who are empowered
to make any alteration they may see fit' in the certificate
to be sworn to by the assessor. In whose favour this alteration
is most likely to he made, may be easily conjectured ; for we
know well enough, that servants who depend upon their mas-
ters for their daily bread, will, in all probability, do all they can
to curry favour from them, by saving their pockets at the ex-
pense of others. An alteration, if made by the surveyor, must
be before the allowance of the certificate by the Commissioners;
and, since few assessors would swear to any other statement
than their own, the oath required to be administered to the
assessor on taking in his certificate for verification of its cor-
rectness, is generally dispensed with, and it goes at once into the
surveyor's hands, and is afterwards presented by him to the
Commissioners for their allowance, and is signed by them as a
matter of course. An assessor has no control over his own
assessment. After it has once passed from his hand, he seldom
if ever sees it again."—Morning Chronicle.

We understand that the directors of the Lon-
don and Birmingham Railways have come to an arrange-
ment with the two noblemen whose opposition led to the
failure of the Bill last session in the House of Lords, and
that this important undertaking is now likely to obtain
the sanction of the Legislature.—Northampton Mercury.
GREENWICH IMPROVEMENTS.—Notice has
been given by the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital
of their intention to apply for a Bill in the next Parlia-
ment to enable them to erect a splendid terrace and
esplanade fronting the Thames, from the Ship Tavern to
the Horse Ferry, with a spacious wharf ft,r passengers to
embark and disembark from the steam-vessels. King-
street and Stockwell-street, leading from the River to the
Park, are to be rebuilt on an extended scale. Such im-
provements, added to the Naval Gallery about to be
erected by order of his MAJESTY, together with the fa-
cilities afforded by the railroad (of which notice has also
been given by the trustees of their intention to apply to
Parliament for a Bill), cannot fail to make this once fla-
voured residence of Royalty in a short time a very at-
tractive place of resort.

SUDDEN DEATH.—Saturday an inquest was
held at the Gordon Arms, High Holborn, on the body of
WILLIAM Wl[Adams, aged 30, cellarman to Mr. STAN..
N.Aftn, wine-merchant, of York-street, Covent-garden.
The deceased, on Tuesday, was in the parlour of the
Gordon Arms, engaged in conversation relative to cork-
cutting-machines, with a tradesman named Aungity, re-
siding in Lincoln's Inn-fields. He was making a sketch
with chalk upon the table of what he considered would
be an improvement in the machines, when he fell forward,
groaned, and in an instant presented a lifeless corpse.—
Vedict—Died by the visitation of God.

REMINISCENCES OF GREAT MEN.

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

Great? Yes, great—in station, not in mind—for in
mind the Hero of Waterloo it but a little man. We shall
give several sketches of him to prove that in this estimate
we " nothing exaggerate nor set down aught in malice."
Sketch I. Scene, the Treasury : Time—that memora-
ble period when Wellington, after having disappointed the
Manchester and Birmingham people, by his silence as to
Reform, threw off the mask, and was about to declare him-
self a thick and thin Anti-Reformer. Enter the Editor of
a Government pLint, who had been sent for in haste to the
Treasury, by a gcretary to the Duke, who bad himself
been sent for expressly from the country to Apsley House
on the preceding day, for the purpose of being instructed
to summon the editor to the Treasury. On his arrival he
is informed that the Duke was furious at an article which
had appeared in his paper, stating that some reform was
at hand, and that he insisted on a contradiction, at the
same time giving him a paper, on which the Duke had
written about ten lines as an editorial article, contra-
dictory of that which had already appeared.
EDITOR—. 4 will not insert it; the Duke makes me eat
my own words. With an addition of three or four lines,
and some omissions, it may appear, not otherwise. I
know that Reform is at hand. Three days ago the King
said to a gentleman of my acquaintance at his dinner-
table, " Something must be (lone about those cursed
rotten boroughs." Tell the Duke I will not insert his ar-
ticle without the alterations which I have made.

Exit Secretary. He returns, and states, that the Duke
insists on the insertion of the article as he had written it,
unless the Editor will give up the name of his informant.
EDITOR---I will do no such thing, I know he has not
deceived me; and that only four days ago the Duke was
negotiating with the Reformers ; not having brought them
to his terms, he has since taken in some Anti-Reformers to
strengthen him, and they have probably taken alarm at my
article, supposing that the Duke intends to jockey them as
he did on the Catholic Question. I have no objection to
insert an article, stating that what I said was without the
authority of the Duke, but I will not insert his produc-
tion : tell him so.

Exit Secretary, who returns, and says, that the Duke is
positive, and that lie insists upon the insertion of his ar-
ticle as he had written it, or the name of the gentleman
with whom the King had been talking. In the event of
refusal to comply with the Duke's wish, the Editor is to
consider the connection between the and the Go-
vernment at an end.

EDITOR—Be it so. lam a Reformer, and will not lend
myself to the views of the Duke as an Anti-Reformer.
Neither will I give up the name of the informant on whose
word I wrote the article which has so mortified the Duke.
Tell him so again.
Exit Secretary—be returns and says, " The Duke is
positive."
EDITOR—So am I ; and now tell the Duke that I will
have the King apprised of the request which he makes re-
specting the King's friend—a request alike disrespectful to
his Majesty and insulting to my character—unless he con-
sents to the insertion of his article with my alterations.

SECRETARY-1 dare not tell him this.
EDITOR-Then I will write it.
Exit Secretary—Returns and says, " The Duke says
you are to have your own way."
Oh ! magnanimous Duke of Wellington ! Oh ! vacil-
lating Duke, before whom the poor creatures of his Cabinet
trembled, but who himself submitted to the firmness of a
newspaper Editor.
The article appeared as amended.

Two days afterwards the Duke and his clique secretly
got up another paper, protesting, however, solemnly that
they had no interest in it, in order thus to prevent an ex-
posure of their meanness and political dishonesty. The
paper started. On the day when it first made its appear-
ance, the Duke was turned out of office. Tins is NOT
APOCRYPHAL.—MerIe's Weekly Register.

CHOUAN.—The derivation of this word, ap-
plied to the partisans of the BOURBON aine, in LaVendee,
is from Chouan, a night awl ; as they were accustomed
to come out only at night, like the White Boys and Rock-
ites in Ireland.

AN INTERESTING GERMAN VILLAGE.-
There is near Halberstadt, in Prussia, a village, named
Strodbeck, where all the inhabitants, men and children,
are chess-players. They were converted to the game some
centuries since by a Dignitary of the Cathedral of Halber-
stadt, who allowed them exemption from imposts as long
as they should be winners in this game, and every year a
person was sent down to try them. Since the secularization
of the bishopric of Halberstadt, and its union with the
kingdom of Prussia, they lest a game, and since that time
their immunity ceased, but their predilection for this
amusement continues. —Anglo- Germanic Advertiser.
THE AFFAIR AT CROCKFORD'S BAZAAR.
—The young ladies concerned in this affair are the daugh-
ters of one of the clerks in a High Court of Equity. He
is himself a gentleman highly respected for the strictest
integrity, the most unblemished honour, and the sincerest
politeness. The daughters are extremely fine gills ; the
eldest has just attained the age of twenty-one, and has
recently come into posse-lion of 12,0001., left by a rela-
tive; the youngest is about eighteen, and will be entitled
to the same sum when she is of age. They are related,
that is, they are neices;either by the mother's or father's
side, to a distinguished Secretary for a certain Depart.
ment.— Observer.

ASSASSINATION OF M. DELPECH.—This
deplorable event, which took place at Montpelier on the
29th ult., has created the most intense and painful interest
relative to the facts. DEMeTOS, the murderer, had been
a patient of M. DELPECII some time before. He was treated
for varicocele, and it would seem that the cure was attended
with circumstances that rendered it imprudent for him to
form a matrimonial engagement. It is further stated that
M. DELPECII, having been consulted by a family into
which DEMPTOS wished to marry, gave them some intima-
tion of his patient's condition. DE/IPTOS met M. DEL-
PECII at the theatre the night before the fatal deed, and it
is thought that he demanded from M. DELPECII a retrac-
tion of what had been said to the farn:ly. However, on
the 29th the assassin stationed himself in the balcony of
the house where he lodged, and watched the approach of
M. PELPECH'S cabriolet. It came, when with one shot
from a double-barrelled gun he killed the servant, and
with the other the mister. He then retired into the
house, and blew out his own brains with a pistol. M.
DELPECII expired in a few minutes. His obsequies were
performed on the 31st, amid the general lamentation of
the people of -Montpelier. Orations were pronounced
over his tomb by MM. DUGES, BOYER, and TRINQUIER.
M. DELPECII was in his 60th year. He was a Chevalier
of the Legion of Honour, Professor of Clinical Surgery to
the Faculty of Montpelier, Surgeon-in-Chief to the prin-
cipal hospital, and a member of numerous learned societies
throughout Europe. On examination of his body, it was
found that .he ball had entered just above the nipple of the
left breast ; after fracturing a rib, it passed through the
upper part of the lung, tore the cross of the aorta, divided
the apex of the right lung, and came out at the shoulder
of tat Bide, after a fracture of the humerus. From morbid
appearances discovered in the lungs, it is supposed that
M. DELPECII cou'd not, in the ordinary course of nature,
have lived many years.—Medical Gazette.
PEDESTRIANISM AMONG THE ALPS.-011e
should be in Switzerland to have the full value of those
useful lower limbs which nature has provided for our
locomotion. Britain, for an Englishman, is being too
much at home; France, generally speaking, is too flat
and unvaried—Germany, too dull and too phlegmatic—
Holland, too swampy and too low; even Italy, too
warm and malarious, for the height of rambling enjoy-
ment. It is only in Switzerland that we have, within
the compass of a day's march, all the varieties of climate
from Iceland to Sicily—of scenery, from Madeira to
Nova Zembla—of people, of language, of dress, mari-
ners, customs, and complexions. In such a country one
may, indeed, enjoy pedestrianizing in perfection. There
is something inspiringly free in the swinging gait of a
pedestrian among the Alps. Attired in his bleusse and
cap, and accoutred with his pole, knapsack, and their
subordinate paraphernalia of telescope, spirit flask, &c.,
he presents a fine picture of animation, brushing off, en
route, at sunrise—vigour in his step, and his spirits elate
and buoyant as the mountain air which contributes to
his viracity. He traverses an ever-varying range of
valleys, forest, heath, snow, and glacier—now pausing to
admire the landscape, and now to converse with a group
of peasants; or to study the geological or botanical
features of the scene. He spends the beat of the day at
an auberge, or perhaps some lonely chalet in his track,
enjoys a refreshing siesta for two or three hours, and sets
out again to pursue his walk. As he passes into the
valley towards the close of the day, a descending sun is
reflected from the polished surface of some lovely expanse
of lake, and gilds a rich prospect of mountain, wood,
and dell, with the exquisite mellow shades of evening,
placidly harmonizing with the traveller's own subdued
feelings ; while, before he reaches the village inn, which
is
the night,
the moon smiles " brighter
and blue chain of mountains on
to shelter
nao re
bright"
him
over r
a dark
the one hand, and the other the "snow-clad summits of
the hoary Alps," in the distance, are radiant with that
carmine glow imparted to them by the setting sun.—Au-
rora Borealie.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.

DISCOVERY OF PART OF A NEST OF BURGLARS..---
Yesterday, a smartly-dressed young woman, named Mary
Wall, and a man, named Thomas Richardson, known as
a returned transport, were brought before Mr. HALLS,
charged on su.picion of having been concerned in a num
her of burglaries, and with having a vast number of house-
breaking implements in their possession.
George Spindle Howell, a constable of St. Ann's, Soho,
in consequence of private information, on Sunday, watched
the female prisoner home to her lodging in Chapel-court,
Crown-street, Soho, and going into ber room, he searched
a large chest, enclosed in which he found an iron box,
containing, besidei seven sovereigns and a silver watch,
with a great number of duplicates, 56 picklock and skele-
ton keys, a phosphorus box, several jemmies or crow-
bars, and other housebreaking implements. He took her
into custody, and in answer to questions which he put to
her, she admitted that she had been living with the pri-
soner Richardson for some time, and that occasionally she
took the iron box out under her shawl at night-fall, and met
him at an appointed place and gave it to him, and that be-
fore d tyliehr she met him again, and took the box from
him and conveyed it to her own lodging, he having a sepa-
rate one. She said she had lived servant at Mr. Forbes's,
a linen-draper in Middle•row, Holborn, for about two
years. Witness afterwards apprehended the male prisoner
at the corner of Compton-street, and having ascertained
that be rented a back garret in Princes-street, Soho,
searched there and found a crow-bar and other similar
implements, and two instruments called life-preservers
(they might with equal propriety be called life. destroyers),
made of whalebone, with a knob of lead covered at each
end. There was a" hull's eye" glass in the door, by which
any one inside could see who required admission ; and
there were also beds sufficient for five or six men, made
upon chairs, in different parts of the room.
The prisoners said nothing, and were remanded till
Thursday, when it is expected that important evidence
will be brought forward.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
John Joseph, a man of colour, and John Harrop,
were brought before Mr. DYER yesterday, charged with
having obtained a quantity of spirits and malt liquors
from Mr. Richard Jenkins, landlord of the Catherine
Wheel public-house, St. James's, by fraudulent repre-
sentations.

Mr. Jenkins stated, that Joseph came to his house and
said he had been sent by Mr. Best, porter to Sir Francis
Burdett, in St. James's-place, for a pint of brandy and
half a gallon of porter. Having some know ledge of the
prisoner, from knowing that he swept the crossing at St.
James's•place, he let him have the liquors, and in a short
time afterwards the prisoner Harrop came with an older
for half a gallon of ale for Sir Francis Burdett's porter,
which he also let him have. The fraud was shortly after-
wards detected, and as it was accompanied by circum-
stances which rendered the conduct of Joseph particu-
larly inexcusable, witness gave the prisoners into custody.
Best, the porter to Sir Francis, came forward and
stated that he knew the prisoner Joseph, who got a very
excellent living by sweeping a crossing to St. James's-
place ; it was not so much from the money he obtained as
a sweeper, as it was from the kindness of the noble resi-
dents in the neighbourhood, that Joseph contrived to make
so good a living. The family of Sir Francis had been ex-
ceedingly kind to him ; and it was only a few days ago
the young ladies sent him half-a-crown, to which he added
a shilling from his own pocket. Lady Sykes, among
many others, had been very charitable towards him, and
in particular, Lord Spencer, when in town, used to allow
him about seven shillings a week. The prisoner was,
however, quite unworthy of so much kindness, having,
during the last week, imposed upon almost all the charit
ble residents in that neighbourhood by stories of fictitious
distress. The prisoner had, after obtaining the liquors
from Mr. Jenkins, contrived to obtain some tnoney from
him, by sending the prisoner Harrop to him with a mes-
sage, that " Black Joe," meaning himself, had just been
run over by a cart, and so severely injured as to be in-
capacitated from attending to the duties of his broom for
some time. Harrop also stated, that in addition to this
misfortune, Joe's wife was just put to bed, and therefore a
few shillings would be of the utmost service to both. Wit.
ness found out afterwards, that instead of Black Joe's wife,
it was Black Joe himself who had been put to bed, dead
drunk, and that the story of his having been run over was
trumped up for the purpose of getting more money to
purchase liquor with.
Mr. DYER inquired of Harrop why he had told Mr.
Best that Black Joe had been run over by a cart.
Harrop—The gentleman must have misunderstood me ;
I said that Joe was standing in the rear of a cab, and had
nearly been run over.

Best—Why, when you told me he was so much in-
jured, and I said I would apply to Sir Francis to get him
into the hospital, you said, " Oh ! he's not hurt enoush
for that—a few shillings would answer his purpose better
than an order."—(Lriughter.)
The prisoner Joseph, in defence, pleaded intoxication.

Mr. tlvEtt remarked there appeared to be no excuse for
him. He obtained, through the kindness of charitable
individuals, a better living than half the working people
in Lond and therefore necessity could not be pleaded as
an excuse for the resort to fraud. He should order both
parties to be committed for the offence.