The Sun.
London, England, 1832-06-25 00:00:00

There is to be a " fancy fair," under the di-
rection of a Committee cf the Ladies of Southwark, at
the Surrey Zoological Gardens, on the 4th and sth of
July, the proceeds of which will be offered in aid of the
restoration of the " Ladye Chapel" of their beautiful ca-
thedral-like church.

The year 1832 is apparently destined for the
deaths of eminent persons, as 1769 for their births. The
East India newspapers bring us word of the death of
Dimorto, the Creole poet of Hindoostan; the French of
Attu. REMUSAT, the distinguished Oriental scholar and
translator of the Chinese novel of " Tu-Kiao-Li; or, the
Two Cousins."—Literary Guardian.

A REFortM VOW.—JOHN ISAAC, a cast-
iron founder in Aylesbury, rather a singular character,
who goes under the cognomen of Cast Iron Jack, made a
vow, that he would never again be shaved till the Reform
Bill was passed. This vow he made upwards of three
months before last Christmas, and solemnly observed it
until Tuesdsy last, when the news of the passing the Re-
form Bill reached Hertford.—Bucks Herald.

TRISTRAM SHANDY.-M. EUSEBE SAL-
veRTE, in his learned work on the Origin of Names and
Places, gives "a local habitation and a name" to Mr.
Tristram, and cites Shandy of Shandy-hall, as an instance
of a local designation becoming the surname of an indivi-
dual ! The lee Mrs. GULLIVER, of Greenwich, being
asked if she was any relation to the famous Captain Le-
muel Gulliver? replied, she believed she was, for her fa-
ther had a portrait of the Captain in the parlour, and
always used to call him " my uncle."—This was very well
in Mrs. GuLuvas., who might never have read Swzrr,
but the learned M. SALVERTE to consider " Tristram
Shandy" a true history The Penny Magazine.

THE PRAIRIE.—This powerful story, by
the great American Novelist, corrected by its Author, is
about to be added to his other inimi:able productions,
already published in the " Standard Novels." In the
present work the reader beholds not, as in the Pilot, the
majestic ocean spread cut before him—nor does it present
the immeasurable shade of deep and trackless forests, nor
the quiet of mountains untrodden by human footsteps, as
in the Pioneers—but interminable meadows, covered by
long grass, sublime from their magnitude and their remote-
ness from human habitations. Yet even these level wilds
become intensely interesting from the vivid power with
which they are delineated. A single rock which may
serve for an encampment--a little hollow, marked only by
a stunted tree—a small grove of tangled underwood (all
scenes of the most striking events in the tale) stand out in
bold relief, and bold a place in the recollection, as realities
which we have visited on some long-past journey.
MILITARY ESTABLISHMENTS.—Colonel
EvANs, M.P. for Rye, has given notice that he will, on
the 26th of June, move resolutions to the effect, that it is
xpedient to effect every possible reductionin the heaviest
branch of the national expenditure, that of the army ; that
great reductions may be effected in the following military
establishments, without detriment to the public service,
and that some of them may be altogether.. abolished,..—
via., Chelsea Hospital Military Asylum, kilmainhani
Hos-
pital, the Iliberni rn Alilitary School, the Waggon
the Irish and English yeomanry, the disembodied militia
of Great Britain and Ireland, regimental depot reserves,
the district recruiting establishments, the system of manu-
facturing stores for the Ordnance, in respect to con-
struction of colonial canals and fortifications, in respect to
chuasr,gtehsef:tabrre niigilnitahruyif!praoytection of Ceylon and the Mauri-
tius,
and foot-guards, and by i the hnoisuisieinhgoltdhetronournboetr ca
officers on the establishment of regiments ; that it is ex-
pedient that the forces at Malta the Cape of Good Hope,
and Nova Scotia and Bermuda
should be reduced to the
same effective strength at which they were on the 25th of
January, 1825; and that it is expedient that the forces at
home be reduced to the same effective strength at which
they were on the 25th of January, 1831,

" Whether, previous to the deposit, any money
was advanced by Mr. Davison ?"
On which the foreman shortly explained the cir-
stances as they had appeared in evidence, and said
the Jury found that these deeds were a deposit for
money advanced by Mr. Davison.
Sir JAMES SCARLETT said, " I wish to say to my
Learned Friend, Mr. Manning, before I leave the
Court, that I have been a leader for these 30 years,
but I never dared to do what he has done."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

Saturday John Ridley Kitt, a young man em-
ployed at the Westminster Gas Works, vas brought
up by Daniel Forrester, on the following charge:—
In the country department of the London banking-
houses it is customary to put the drafts presented
for payment through a complicated process, in order
to guard against imposition. At about two o'clock
on Friday a draft was brought to the house of Sir
Richard Carr Glynn and Co., on the account of
Lovell and Co., the bankers at Birmingham, for the
sum of W. 35., of which the firm had received advice.
After it had passed through the hands of the clerks
it disappeared, and at a quarter before five a
draft was brought in which was in every respect si-
milar except in the sum, which was for 601. 3s.
The prisoner was the person who presented it.
Mr. William Thomas, cashier at the banking-
house, stated that the draft produced for 631. 3s.
was a legitimate draft in every respect, except that
"6 " had been changed to " 60," both in figures
and writing. The house had received no warning
that the draft had been lost. Witness suspected
that some trick had been practised upon looking
close to the ink with which the additions had been
made, and caused the prisoner to be detaiued. He
had been just upon the point of paying the larger
sum when he detected the forgery. The draft was
regularly marked for payment.
The prisoner stated that, as he was standing at
the Post-office, a gentleman addressed him, and re-
quested that he would take a check to• Glynn's, and
bring back to him three twenties, for which service
he should have the sum of a sovereign for himself.
He thought the sum rather large certainly, but it
did not occur to him that there was any thing wrong
in the transaction. As he was looking for a place
he told the gentleman that he could not be with
him for an hour, and no objection was made to the
delay. On returning to the post-office to see the
gentleman, no gentleman appeared.
The prisoner was remanded for further exami-
nation.

Mr. Brown, the Marshal, stated that several of
the banking houses had lost considerable sums
lately by forgeries of this description. A few months
ago a house paid 80/. instead of 8/., and about seven
years ago the banking firm of Mastermans paid 400/.
instead of 4/.

Nabosh Benjamin, a Polish Jew, was summoned
before the LORD MAYmt, for having given his
washerwoman, Mrs. Williamson, a fierce bite on the
thumb. The defendant was dressed in a gabardine,
wore a tight black cap upon his head, and had an
immense sooty beard, which stuck out from his
chin like a bush.

The complainant, who appeared with her hand
bound up, stated, that having had the ill luck to
wash for the Jew, she was constantly annoyed by
his visits whenever she had a shirt of his in the
tub. As foreigners were not over and above deli-
cate in their linen, she made every allowance for
the state of the Jew's " flesh bags," although he
sometimes handed her a shirt to wash which looked
as if a hog had worn it the night before. The last
shirt, however, that, he left to be transformed, was
in such a mess, that she was obliged, not only to
throw it into a separate tub, but to simmer it over
the fire for several hours, and to give it us much
" knuckle grease" as it took her to finish off all the
rest of the wash. The Jew, upon looking at the
shirt, swore it was not his, and endeavoured to carry
away a table-cloth along with it as a make-weight,
but witness pulled away the table-cloth, upon
which the Jew snatched at her thumb with his
teeth, and failing to disjoint it, - her, and spit
right into her left eye.
The LORD MAYOR inquired as to the extent of
the Jew's wardrobe?

The washerwoman said, that her customer had
never kept more than two shirts, and he used no
more ceremony with them than if he were a three
months old baby.—" I assure you, my Lord," added
she, " that the idea of washing such a consent would
shock your Lordship."—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYoU—I can well imagine that you
have had a dnagreeable job. Well, Mr. Benjamin,
what have you to say to this serious charge ?
Defendant—Sly ! vy, you see, my Lord, I give
her shirt to vash and she keep it long, long time,
and so I say to myself, she put my shirt upon de
backsh of ancde man vot she vash for, and it VIII
be yore out afoie it come upon my body once more.
So den, my Lord, I go to her, and says I, vere is
my shirt vot I give you to make it vice; dat is, my
Lord, to vash it, to scrape off de dirt ; and so she
say, dere, you Jew, take your nasty rag out of
de decent comrany; I vont vash for no more fo-
reign warmint ; ;here's enough of Irish gentlemin
vot has clean Ain and vot vorks under ground for
der living. Go avay with your old sweat-soaker, it
shan't ever blacken my doors no more.—(A laugh.)
Mr. HOBLER—But why did you do so brutal a
thing as bite this 10 rr woman's thumb ?
Defendant—Vy, my Lord, I don't know vat I
vas doing, I vas so very mad. You see, my Lord,
I look at de shirt t.ril it vas all patch here and dere,
and if you vant to put it on, you vould put your
head into de wrong hole; and den, my Lord, yen I
look at de tail, dere vas a tail afore, but dere vas not
a bit of de tail at all behind.—(Laughter.)
The complainant said, that the hind tail being
the part of the shirt with which she had most trou•
ble, it had been rubbed into a sort of fine lint, and
Mr. Benjamin thought fit to tear it off on the spot.
She hoped, for the sake of his next washerwoman,
that he would never wear a tail to his shirt again.
The defendant—Ah, ha I you shant vash neider
my head nor my tail vonce more, You be a bad

BOW-STREET.
Saturday night Sir William Curtis, Bart., came
before Mr. Mimi'HuLL, for the purpose of giving
information of a robbery which had been committed
upon a French lady of high rank, whose name,
perhaps (Sir W. Curtis said), it would be unneces-
sary to mention. The lady arrived in London on
Friday evening, and took up her abode for the night
with her servants at Joy's Grand Hotel, 'Western
Piazza, Covent-garden. Saturday morning the
Lady gave orders for her luggage to be removed in
hackney-coaches from the Grand Hotel to a house
which had been hired for her in Norfolk-
street, Strand. The lady herself occupied the last
coach that left the hotel, and on the seat of the
coach, after paying waiters, &c., she placed two
purses, one of which contained two hundred and
fifty pounds in bank notes. When she arrived at
the house in Norfolk-street she desired the female
servant who accompanied her in the coach to look
carefully that all her property was safely deposited.
This, it would appear, the servant neglected to do;
for in a short time the lady discovered that her
purse, containing the sum of 250/., had been stolen.
She immediately made her loss known, and a police
constable was called in, but he did not take any ef-
fectual steps to insure the apprehension of the coach-
man, who, in the mean time, had been allowed to
depart. He (Sir W. Curtis), in making this appli-
cation, was anxious only to procure the assistance
of one of the ablest officers of the establishment to
endeavour to recover the property, and punish the
thief ; and, at the same time, to convince the lady
that such a daring robbery could not be committed
in this country with impunity.
Mr. MINSHULL immediately ordered Ledbitter,
one of the most active officers of the establishment,
to make inquiries, and endeavour to trace the perpe-
trators of the robbery.

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

IMPERIA LPA RLIAMENT

THIS EVENING.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Mr. R. FERGUSSON presented a petition from the
Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, in favour of the Edin.
burgh and Glasgow Railway Bill.
Mr. WILKS called the attention of the House to the
Bill for establishing the Durham University, which, be
said, was of great public importance. He held a petition
from the city of Durham, signed by all denominations of
Dissenters, and praying that the honours and benefits of the
University be extended to persons of all religious denomina-
tions. He observed that in the six northern counties, vie.
Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland, Westmorland,
Yorkshire, and Lancashire, the places of worship belong-
ing to the Church of England were 1,491, to Pro-
testant Dissenters and Methodists 1816, and to Roman
Catholics 166, and that ha the Church of England
Schools in those counties 70,000 children were being
educated, where in the Dissenters' Sunday Schools no less
than 210,000 children were received and educated.

Mr. had been requested to support the petition;
he would rather the Bill had been introduced in another
Parliament, for the House ought to be better informed of
the objects of the Bill before 120,0001. of the public mo-
ney be expended upon it. When the Bill came before the
House he should propose that it be postponed until after
the present Parliament had expired.
After a few words from Mr. ESTCOURT, who said that
the money belonged to the Church, the petition was
ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. WILKS presented a similar petition from a place
in Durham.

The petition was ordered to lie on the table.
Lord ASHLEY brought up the report of the Committee
on Lord Rivers's Estate Bill, and the Bill was passed.
On the motion of Mr. HUME, the Portland Market
Bill was read a third time and passed.

Mr. HEYWOOD presented a petition from Salford,
praying the House to pass as efficient a Reform Bill for
Ireland as that for England. Also a petition from Man-
chester, praying that in the Highway Bill a clause might
be introduced giving the protection of a Jury in cases of
appeal from a Magistrate relative to stopping up footpaths.
The Hose. MEMBER also presented a petition from cer-
tain Protestant Dissenters of Bury, in favour of the Go-
vernment plan of education in Ireland.

Mr. RUTRVEN presented a petition from the Dublin
Chamber of Commerce, praying that in the Irish Reform
Bill provision might be made for returning two additional
representatives for the city of Dublin.

Mr. SHAW bore testimony to the respectability of the
petitioners.

Mr. O'CONNELL supported the prayer of the petition.
After a few words from Mr. Dundas, Mr. Wyse, Mr.
Pread, Mr. Rutliven, Sir George Clerk, and Mr. Cramp-
ton, the petition was ordered to be printed.
Mr. RUTHVEN presented a petition from 1,800 per-
sons of the City of Dublin, praying for an increase of re-
presentation for Dublin. Within the county and city,
according to the last census, there were 250,000 inhabi-
tants, and the estimated number of voters were
sixteen thousand, so that the city well deserved ad-
ditional representatives. The Hon. Member said be
was not disposed to move for instructions to that effect to
the Committee, b(cauee he understood his Majesty's Mi-
nisters were disposed to relax the principles which they
had at first laid down.
Mr. O'CONNELL complained that the persons who
were to be appointed by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to
register voters were irresponsible persons—while, by the
English Reform Bill, barristers delaying voters, or in any
way contravening the Act, were liable to be sued by the
parties aggi ieved. He most axiously hoped to see the
i
Barristers n Ireland placed on the same footing before the
Bill was passed through the House.
The petition was ordered to be printed.
Mr. M. O'CONNELL presented petitions from the
North-western Metropolitan Union, anti from the Na-
tional Political Union of Ireland, complaining of the mis-
appropriation of Church property, and praying for its
equal distribution. Also from Bath, praying for
3o equal measure of Reform for Ireland as for
England ; and against the privilege of Parliament Bill.
Also a petition from the Political Union of Bristol in
favour of an enlarged Reform Bill for Ireland. The Hon.
Nlember also presented three petitions from parishes in
Cork against tithes.
Mr. D. W. HARVEY presented a petition from the Pro-
testant Dissenters of Colchester in favour of the Government
Plan of Education in Ireland. The Hon. Member gave
notice that on the bringing up of the Report of the Pre-
vention of Bribery 8.11, he should move the insertion of a
clause to compel every Member to take an oath that
he had not given, promised, or intended to give, money
or lands to any person for his vote.
The Holy. MEMBER then presented a petition from a
Mr. Walker, a solicitor at Bristol, praying that the proper
officer of the House might be permitted to attend in the
King's Bench to-morrow, with the journals, in order to
prove the presentation of a petition on a certain day. Peti-
tioner had an action of libel against theifirror of Parliament
for the publication of a speech of Dr. Lushington on the
presentation of a petition, in which that Hon.
.Gentleman
had reflected greatly upon the petitioner, and it was ne-
cessary at the trial to prove that such a petition hail
been presented. The Hon. Member moved the bring ing

tip of the petition, and also that the officer of the House
attend with the Journals.
The SPEAKER said that on Saturday, while in that
trou,e, he had received a letter front the petitioner re-
que,ting that he would give directions to the proper
officer to attend with the Journals in order to prove the
presentation of a petition to that House, and also stating
that it was important that no time should be lost
as the trial was likely to take place that day or
Monday. The answer which he bad given to that
letter was, that inasmuch as the prodution of the Journals,
with a view to prove something in a Court of Law,
affected the privileges of the House of Lords, he should
take the same course as he bad heretofore usually done
on former occasions—that was, to call upon the party
while the House was sitting to present the petition. Upon
the presentation of a similar petition in 1831, the House
negatived the requests and the present application was of
a nature of a reversal of that decision.
Lord ALTHORP considered that assenting to the
prayer of the petition would be contrary to the privi-
leges of the House. He had no doubt that what
was required of the petitioner was to prove words
spoken by an Hon. Member in the presentation of a pe-
tition. Although be felt doubt and hesitation on the sub-
ject, he considered the House bound not to agree to the
production of the Journals.
Mr. O'CONNELL thought the Noble Lord opposite
was under a misapprehension. He (Mr. O'Connell) did
not understand that the object of the petition was to
prove what an Hon. Member had stated on the presentation
of the petition, but in the indictment averment, were con-
tained that a petition was presented, and it was necessary
that the Journals of the House should be produced to
prove that fact.
Lord ALTHORP considered that it was not essential
to the purposes of justice that the House should comply
with the request of the petition. It would be trenching
on the privileges of the House to allow their officer to
present their Journals on such an occasion.

_
Mr. HUME had presented the petition referred to, but
did not see that the complaint was attached to the pre-
sentation of it, but to the debate which followed. H e
did not see that that House should stand in the way of
justice between the two individual parties who alone were
concerned.

Mr. O'CONNELL insisted that as there was an aver-
ment which was necessary to be proved before the indict.
ment could he sustained, and as no other kind of evidence
was admissible to prove the truth of that averment, if
justice was not to be defeated, the Journals ought to he
produced.

Sir R. PEEL considered this a question of considerable
difficulty. The House was bound, as having a general
superintendance over the Courts, to facilitate, as far as was
consistent with their privileges, the due execution of justice.
It was, therefore, their duty to facilitate the proof of the
averment, if necessary to the justice of the case. He could
not see the principle upon which the production of the
Journals was refused. At the same time, however, he
recommended some course should be adopted, in order to
ascertain that their production was necessary.
Lord ALTHORP agreed with the Right Hon. Baronet
that the production of the Journals should be proved ne-
cessary, and appealed to the Speaker how far the privileges
of the House were involved in the question.
The SPEAKER having been appealed to, said that
whatever decision the House came to on this case, should
be determined by its own merits; and that the production
of the Journals was to be judged of by their interfering or
not interfering with the privileges
,of the House. Al-
though the production of the Journals was necessary to the
proof of the averment, as the indictment was drawn, it
was questionable whether the indictment, being otherwise
drawn, the production of the journals was necessary to
the end of justice. In 1831 a similar application
was negatived. The discussion in that House would not,
however, be made the subjects of decision in the Court
below ; and, therefore, it could not interfere with the
privileges of that House.'
_ _

- Mr: D. W. HARVEY said, that the person who had
put the petition into his hand was advised by two Hon.
and Learned Members (his Counsel) that the production
of the journals was necessary to the justice of Lis case.
Mr. CAMPBELL felt no difficulty in stating ibat their
production was necessary to the proof of the averment, as
the indictment was framed, and that the privileges of the
House would not thereby be interfered with.
Mr. STANLEY said it was desirable that the Hon. and
Learned Member shonld have glue a step further, to prove
that the indictment could not be so framed as that the proof
of the averment by means of the production of the jour-
nals, would be rendered unnecesary.
Mr. GOULBOURN said that this action was brought
by the plaintiff for a libel contained in a corrected
report of a speech made by the Hon. Member (Dr.
Lushington.) The petition, however, complained that
a second speech delivered by the Hon. Member had aggra-
vated the former libel. He was therefore of opinion that the
production of the journals was wanted for the purpose of
aggravating the case against the Hon. Member. e for
one would not agree to their being produced.
Sir THOMAS FREEMANTLE said it had not been
made out to his satisfaction that the averment was
at all necessary in order to sustain the indictment. He
thought the better plan was to call either the Counsel
or the agent to the Bar, in order to give evidence on the
matter. As to the course suggested by the Hon. Member
for Tarnworth, there was not time for a Select Committee,
as the trial was expected to come on to-morrow.
Mr. BURGE took it to be perfectly clear that the aver-
ment was necessary, for counsel were always unwilling to
burden their cause with what was useless. The indict-
ment referred to a petition, and therefore the averment
was necessary.
Mr. SLANEY rose, and was left speaking.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat at Five o'clock.

MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS.
Mr. HUME, Lord STANLEY, Lord ASHLEY, and others,
brought up the Portman Market Bill, and two other pri-
vate Bills.

The Marquess of SLIGO presented a petition from
Ballyrobe, in Mayo county, in favour of the new plan of
education in Ireland.

Lord SEFTON presented a similar petition from the
Dissenters of Liverpool.

Several Bills were forwarded a stage.
Lord GLENGALL moved for a return from the Con-
stables of Police of the number of outrages committed in
certain southern counties of Ireland within the last three
months. —Ordered.

The Marquess of LONDONDERRY presented several
petitions from Sunderland, against the Sunderland Dock
Bill.

The Sale of Beer Bill was read a fiat time.
The Bishop of EXETER moved for returns relative to
Irish Education, as also the Earl of Wief:Low, which
were respectively ordered.
Earl GREY presented a petition from Reading, praying
their Lordships to take into consideration the revision of
the Criminal Code.

Lord RADNOR presented a petition from York against
the renewal of the Bank Charter without inquiry.
The Bishop of CHICHESTER presented a petition
from Horsham, praying for a revision of the Criminal Code.
The Duke of SUSSEX presented a similar petition from
the clergy, bankers, merchants, and others of the county of
Lancaster; the signatures amounted to 1,000 and up-
wards.

Lord HOLLAND presented a similar petition from
Warrington, in Lancashire. He was glad to find that
opinions so consistent with religion, philosophy, and prin-
ciples of good policy were gaining ground.
Lord CAMPERDOWN presented a similar petition
from Wakefield.

Lord DINORBEN presented a similar petition, as a►so
did the Duke of LEINSTER.

Lord SUFFIELD presented a similar petition from
Kingston-upon-Thames, and expressed himself strongly in
its favour, the punishment of death being often inflicted
most unnecessarily and inexpediently.
The Marquess of CLEVELAND presented petitions
from Olney and Beverley to the same effect.
Lord BELHAVEN gave notice that on Thursday next
he will present a petition from the General Assembly
of the Church of Scotland on the subject of the Irish
system of education introduced into Ireland.
On the motion that the whole house do resolve self
into a Committee on the Anatomy Bill,
Lord TENTERDEN rose to make some observations
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