The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-07 00:00:00

EUROPEAN REGIMENTS IN INDIA.—The Bombay
Times calls the attention of Government and every one
concerned to the want of sanatory arrangements for the
European soldiers. The cost of an European soldier
before tit to de regimental ditty in thii country is about
loot, and every death occurring amongst their
number is a loss to the Company of this
amount. 'But ' little care, however, is used in ;re-
ference to the men sent out as recruits ; the only know-
ledge possessed by 'the military authorities of India of
the fact of troops corning in is -derived from the Eitg •
lish newspaes, . whidh mention the number of troops
, that:leave by vessels. for India. Were the troops .re-
garded as Manchester prints they could be duly in-
• -voiced ; bat, under the present system; 4116- notice
from the home authorities simply intimates that
,a few scores may be looked for by such and such
opportunity. In the course of the rains of 1842, about
100 were, cut off by
local causes in the barracks at
• i
combe, and 80 casualties occurred last year in the
• 2d battalion of Artillery in Fort Geroge Barracks en-
• tailing at once a loss. Of 18,000 men to the Com,
pany. Sir George Arthur has bestowed careful at.:
_ tention upon this matter, and recommended a measure
than'
on;
to the home authorities which will not , more
h a
measure,
the above sum, and rid the recruits, in great
local sickness. Our Contemporary recommends that the
Hugh Lindsay, now lying useless in the harbour, may be
moored off the lighthouse and metamorphosed into a
• floating hospital for the sick of European regiments, who
will thus be enabled, at a trifling cost to the'ellniertinient,
'' to derive the benefit of sea air.
THE ALBEIT CAP.—If we were to judge of the
"New Regulation Cap for the Infantry'!, by the-numerous
letters we receive from MI ranks; expressing utter disgust
with it, we would be led•to think that the seledtion could_
never have been made by,tt soldier. Indeed, it is worthy of
fair consideration how far it is advisable to force this ob-
noxious head-dress upon our soldiers. We could show letters,
and quite opinions, all tending to *rdnvince us that desertion
' has, in seine cases, taken place, rather than wear the "Janus
cap," and that, in many instances, recruits have refused to
enlist in a regiment that now has the cap in wear. Thimen
who are to wear the cap ought to have some voice in the
matter; and, we believe, the whole army condeinna it. It is
not too late to amend the order; the issue, is vet, is very
, lim ited7but on the Ist of next April the whole army will
havea this fools' cap placed on their heads, nn a Most suitable
iirs., occasion,
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ISPTRIT of the PUBLIC, JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PIPERS' OF YESiERDAY.
GLOBE.—The present session promises to be in no
respect inferior to any of its predecessors in the do-little
course of legislation. There has been much noise, but
little work. One Bill after another has been introduced,
to be debated, and withdrawn. Others have been pro-
mised by the Government as an inducement to Mem-
bers who had brought forward measures for the Ire-
moral of acknowledged evils, which Ministers could
not defend, but had no disposition to remedy. These
gentlemen—we think too readily—consented to with-'
drew their measures, on a pledge from the Government,
thatßills of a comprehensive kind, in which' the removal
of the grievances complained of should be provided for,
were to .be forthwith introduced. Week
.after -week
has crept away, but nothing has been heard of these
promised measures. The end was answered. Time
was gained by the The
; which, " dicers' oaths,"
were worthless. The evils which brought gain to a few
at the expense of the many, were thus preserved,
at least for another se>sion ; and by. some fortu-
nate chance, may even escape the threatened extirpa-
tion altogether. When Lord Worsley drew the atten-
tion of the House of Commons to the disproportionate
amount of fees on summary convictions to the penalties
inflicted for the offences, and from the returns furnished
by order of the House of Commons, established an unan-
swerable case for legislative redress, what was the conduct
of the Government? The evil of the existing system was
admitted: it could neither be denied nor defended. The
notice of the Government having been directed to the
subject, it had already given directions for a Bill to be
prepared to abolish the present, and provide a better
• mode of paying the clerks of petty sessions. It was
therefore to be hoped that the Noble Lord who had
brought the question before the House—at whose
instance the returns upon its table had been ordered,
and by which the evil had been exposed—would leave
the matter in the hands of Government, and withdraw
his motion. Lord Worsley yielded to the request. Mr.
Manners Sutton's bland compliments were irresistible.
Lord Worsley did, indeed, venture to ask when the
promised measure might bo expected to reach such a
maturity of preparation as to be in a tangible shape for
the legislative process ? The Hon. Under-Secretary of
State for the Home Department could not exactly say
when. No time would, however, be lost ; certainly
the Bill would be befoie the House during the present
session. As the session was yet young, there was
Come reason to look for a fulfilment of the pledge. The
matter rested thus till last evening, when the Noble
Lord (Worsley), who had received the promise, "wished
to know from the Right Hon. Baronet when the Bill
would be introduced by the Government for regulating
the fees to magistrates' clerks." Sir J. Graham, with one
of his sweetest smiles, gave the matter-of-course intima-
tion, that the measure inquired after was precisely in that
hopeful state which rendered all idea of its making its ap •
pearance during the present session wholly out of the
question :—" Te measure was in course of preparation ;
but it was now, he feared, too late to introduce it, with
any hope of its passing into a law during the present
session." So much for the measure ! But what shall be
said of the faith of Government--of the promise
which induced Lord Worsley to resign his measure,
which he had prepared with great care and diligence ? The
information contained in the speech by which his Lord-
ship brought the subject before Parliament, had made
so powerful an impression on the House and the coun-
try as to insure the passing of his Bill. The obvious
inference from Mr. Manners Sutton's language was,
that the Government measure would be immediately
introduced. And now, after waiting nearly three
months, the chief of the department comes forward
to announce that nothing can be done in the
matter during the present session ;. but without de-
signing ,to telf why—except the old, worn-out official
apology, that at this advanced period of the session it is
"too late" to introduce the promised Bill. Thus " The
Fees to Clerks in Petty Sessions Bill" is added to the
measures_ which were promised—to be postponed, sine
Ike—apparently with the hope that they will never be
again called for ; or if called for, in so faint a tone as to
enable Ministers to avoid fulfilling the pledges they
bare given to Parliament and the country respecting
them.
STANDARD.—It would be curious and instructive
to trace the history of the "Socinians' Usurpation Con-
firmation Bill," or, as it is improperly called, the "Dis-
senters' Chapels Bill," which is, as our readers know, to
come before the House of Commons this evening. The
inquiry of which we speak would be curious, because we
believe that
,the starting into life, fully armed and
equipped, without any ostensible parent, of a measure of
such deep interest and such vital imp:inane°, has no
precedent. The inquiry
,would .be instructive,
because the process by which these sly imitators of the
cuckoo-,- the Socinians, have deposited their odious men-
-sure in the hands of the Government, might explain the
contrivances by which they have furtively smuggled them-
selves and their accursed doctrines (the Holy Scripture
calls their doctrine accursed) into so many chapels raised
for Christian worship. Nobodycan believe that the Mi-
nisters, oppressed as they are with au overwhelming
mass of indispensable public business, and frequently
as they are compelled, in the faithful discharge of their
public duty, to give offence to their friends, have willingly
encumbered themselves with the labour and the odium
of this unjust and hateful measure. That would be, in-
deed, to realise what. Sheridan said of the practice of the
Whigs," to build a wall for the purpose of knocking their
heads against it." Vero must have been seine misrepre-
sentation, some unwary 'promise made upon that mis-
representation, hastily' caught up—for the thing is so
completely out of the regular sphere of Government
measures„ that we are persuaded, though it were just
and harmless, as it is iniquitous and mischievous, no
Government, unimportuned, would ever think of it
for fifty years. We trust, for the sake of the Mini-
eters, whom we sineerely respect, and whom it is our
most anxious wish to support in all their measures,
that the true history of the Bill will be given in
the approaching debate. If the Government has
been entrapped by the crafty and dishonest infidels,
who can only benefit by such a Bill, the ex-
planation of the fraud will at once enable Parliament to
relieve them from all difficulty. The difficulty in which
the Bill involves the Government is indeed a serious one.
It places the Censervative Cabinet, and those who sup-
port it, in open and direct hostility with all their best
friends without exception—with Churchmen of all sec-
tions, Presbyterians,. Wesleyans, as well as with Baptists,
Independents, and all other denominations of Chris-
tian Dissenters—the only allies, as respects prin-
ciple, upon whom the Government can count being
the Sociniaas themselves and the political Romanists.
This is an unpleasant view of affairs to the many who, •
like ourselves, wish to see the present Government
strong in the confidence of the country and in the
affections of their countrymen, and not relying altogether
upon the strength of pliant votes secured merely by the
consideration that the only choice lies between the
present. Government and a worse Government. Such a
title to office is surely below the pretensions Of
her Majesty's present advisers, both from their
character and their talents. What in the world
has her Majesty's Government to do with Socinian
chapels ? Is there nothing else in the law that
requires reform, that they will stumble upon this
unhappy question, on. which they must give
to nine-teuths of the people of the United
Kingdom that kind of offence which is never
forgiven by conscientious men, because it' is
believed, and, as we think, rightly believed,
to be an offence against religious truth ? It
was painful to many to be compelled to oppose
Sir Robert Peel's Government upon the factory ques-
tion, and doubtless the consideration which made it
painful to those who opposed the Government upon
the occasion referred to, was the motive that ral-
lied so many supporters to the Ministerial bendhes
This, however, is a more serious question than the factory
question, either morally or politically considered. Clearly
convinced as a great majority of the nation probably is of
the sinfulness of affording unjust facilities to the pro-
pagation of Socinian doctrines, men cannot com-
promise with conscience themselves upon the point,
or forgive those whom they suspect of making such
compromise. One holding the opinions that are gene-
rally and justly held of the nature and tendency of
Socinian doctrines would no more, upon considerations
of expediency, promote the propagation of these doc-
trines, than he would, upon such considerations, join in
the opprobrious vote of the tenth Thermidor. Here
there is a line which conscientious Christians cannot
pass themselves, and which, if passed by others &H-
-berately and with their eyes open, must operate as a Wall
of perpetual separation between those who pass it and
those who do not.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
HOUSE OF LORDS, June 6.
The House sat to-day in a Committee for Privileges.
Among the Peers present were the Lord Chancellor,
Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, and Lord Campbell.
The Annandale Peerage counsel were heard on this
claim, and the further consideration of the case was ad-
journed till Tuesday next.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT June 6.

-_--The-V_lpE-CnaNcELLon of ENGLAND at to-day at ten
o'clock, but in consequence of the absence of counsel, and
parties not being ready, his Honour rose shortly after
half-past ten-o'clock.

SHERIFFS" COURT, June 6.
(Beforelir.Under-SheriffKENNEny and a Common Jury.

BLACKMORE V. FORTY.

This was an action brought to recover, the sum of
41. 14s. 6d., for nine weeks' board, lodging, and washing-,
to which the defendant pleaded the general issne, and
that she was under age at the time the necessaries were
supplied. The latter plea, however, was given up.
Mr. Ryland appeared as counsel for the plaintiff, and
Mr. Ballantine for the defendant.
The circumstances out of which the action arose are
of a somewhat singular nature. The plaintiff is a car-
penter, residing at No. 24, Palace New-road, Lambeth,
and the defendant is a young lady, who came of age on
the 14th of February, 1843, and under her grand-
father's will became entitled to the sum of 9161. 12s. 9d.
Three per Cent. Consols. She was educated for a go-
verness, and resided with her mother, a widow, at
Richmond, up to 1837, when she was apprenticed to
Miss Richardson, of Blackheath, as a teacher, with a
premium of 1001. She possesses very considerable per-
sonal attraction?, and the plaintiff's son, William Robert
Blackmore, who was shopman to a pawnbroker at
Richmond, fell in love with her at first sight. Up to
that period (July, 1840) young Blackmore was a total
stranger to the defendant and her mother, but he intro-
duced himself by the following letter, dated
" Richmond, 17th July, 1840.
" Dear Miss,—You will, I hope, pardon the liberty
used upon this occasion, when you are informed, with
all duo submission, that it is the irresistible effects of a
passion I conceived for you from having had an oppor •
tunity of minutely observing the charms of your person
a few days since on the Green. From the awe with
which I am affected by your presence, I stand in this
predicament—as lost to the power of expression on the
one hand, as to that of restraint on the other. Though
at present I address you as a stranger, if you will honour
me with an interview, or a few lines, I will satisfy you,
as well as all who may be concerned, with respect to
every particular of my situation in life and family con-
nexions that may be deemed necessary to be known,
previous to an allowed intercourse. As my designs are
thus apparently honourable, I flatter myself you will,
if not pre-engaged, comply with my entreaty, and deign
me the honour of an opportunity of paying you my per-
sonal respects. Waiting your pleasure,
" I am, yours affectionately,
" W. R. BLACKMORE.
" To Miss Forty, Green-side."
An acquaintance was subsequently formed, and young
Blackmore, as it was alleged, invited Miss Forty and her
mother to his father's house, where they remained as
visitors from the 28th of September to the 30th of De-
cember following, in 1840. A dispute then arose be-
tween the parties, and Miss and Mrs. Forty ceased to
board in the house, but continued to occupy an apart-
ment up to March, 1841, for which they paid ss. per
week.

For the plaintiff, Emma Blackmore, the plaintiff's
daughter, and other witnesses were called, and stated
that they had heard Miss Forty say that she and her mo-
ther had agreed to pay the plaintiff 10s. per week each
for board and lodging, and 6s. for washing.
For the defendant, Mrs. Mary Diana Forty, the mo-
ther, was called, and positively asserted that herself and
daughter were induced by the earnest entreaties of the
plaintiff's son to go to his father's on the 9th of August,
and remain there as visitors. Witness did not consider
it a suitable match, and her daughter broke it off. She
had never entered into any agreement with the plaintiff
to pay for their board and lodging.
Mr. Ryland having replied, and the Learned Under-
Sheriff summed up, the jury, after a few minutes' consul-
tation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff for 41. 14s. 6d.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
CLERKEN WELL.

lIORSE-STEALING. - John Robinson, having the ap-
pearance of a country labourer, was charged on suspicion
of stealing two horses, value about SOL, the property of
a person unknown.
Police-constable Cole saw the prisoner riding one of
the horses, and leading the other, between seven and
eight o'cloek on that morning, on the Holloway-road.
His manner seemed timid and singular, and witness ques-
tioned him. The prisoner could give no satisfactory
account of how he came by the property. He could not
tell who the owner of the horses was, and would only
state that he had been employed by a drover, and that
he was a native of Bedfordshire. One of the cattle is a
handsome mare, about three years old, and nearly tho-
rough bred ; the other is a powerful cart horse, more
than 15 hans high.—The prisoner was remanded.
Six boys, varying in age between fourteen and twenty,
named Williams, Smith, Jones, Gibbons, Martin, and
Markham_ , were charged with having refused to perform
the work assigned them in the Holborn union work-
house. Nothing could exceed the squalid, miserable
appearance of their persons, literally covered with filth
and vermin, their ragged garments hardly concealing
their nakedness. One of them, Zachariah Williams, was
covered with putrid ulcers, resulting from neglected
cutaneous disease ; and Smith was a martyr to the same
loathsome malady. They had been admitted into the
workhouse as destitute poor on the previous night, and,
having received their suppers and bed, as well as break-
fast this morning, were requested to pick oakum for four
hours, the time assigned by Act of Parliament. They
refused, and were brought before the Magistrate.
'Williams said the ulcerated state of his hands would
not permit him to work, and Smith urged the same
excuse.

Mr. GREENWOOD urged Mr. Wilkes to take these two
lads into the cutaneous wards of the workhouse, and
have their cases attended to by the physician.
Mr. Wilkes promised to do so. The other four lads
said they would do the work if they were allowed to re-
turn to the workhouse.

This was agreed to, and the prisoners were discharged.
John Johnson, alias William Curtis, having a variety
of other aliases, who had been sentenced to transporta-
tion at the Old Bailey for felony about a year ago, was
charged with numerous robberies.
Police-constable, 49 E, recognised the prisoner as
having been on board the hulks afterhaving received sen-
tence, and eould not say whether the prisoner had es-
caped thence or had been pardoned.
Mr. GREENWOOD remarked that the offence•of escap-
ing from the hulks was punished with transportation for
life, and inquired if the prisoner had any certificate of
discharge on his person ?—The constable replied in the
negative ; and promised to inquire from Mr. Cope, go-
vernor of Ncwgate, if the prisoner really were a returned
convict. •

The prisoner declined saying anything on the subject.
The first case was stealing three pairs of boots from
the shop of Mr. Louis, a bootmaker, residing in Brown-
low-street, Holborn. The prisoner went into Mr. Louis'
shop on Saturday last, between eight and nine in 'the
evening, and finding nobody in it, coolly took the boots
from the shelf and ran away with them. He was ob-
served, however, by Mr. Kimble, of 162, Goswell-
street, who chanced to be passing at the time. After a
smart race police. constable 75 E, overtook and arrested
him.

The second case was stealing a fur-trimmed cloak, a
gentleman's blue coat, and other articles of wearing ap-
parel, value 1.51., from the house of Mr. Veltinhofer, a
German gentleman, residing at 10, Shadwell-street,
Islington.
The prisoner having ascertained that a Mr. Leonardo,
n literary gentleman, lodged in the house, -took a ficti-
tious note to him, offering him a salary of 1201. a year
for his services, as teacher in a school in Hounslow. The
note was written in the German language, and was deli-
vered by the prisoner on the 3d ult. Whilst Mr. Leo-
nardo was penning an answer to the note, the prisoner
decamped with the garments, which wero hanging in
the WI.

The third case was stealing a Cheese, weighing 59 lbs ,
frthic the shop of Mr. Coggin, Dean-street, Holborn; on
the 2d of May last, which was established.
Depositions for trial were taken down in the above
three Lases, and Restaux stated that a great number of
other cases of a similar nature could be completed against
hini, but, the _Magistrate said it would be sufficient to
commit him for trial on these three.
In the ease of- .tlfark Need alias Perkins—a father
beating his child with extraordinary cruelty, and the
facts of'which appeared in this paper, among the reported
proceedings of Clerkcnn•ell Police-court, Mr. Scar ill,
clerk to the board of guardians of Clerkenwell parish,
announced to the Magistrate that it was the intention of
the board to prosecute the father at the ensuing Middle-
sex sessions, and Mr. Greenwood expressed his satisfac-
tion at the information.

GUANO.—A lively interest was excited last week'
An the Colonial market, owing to a sale by auction of the
first cargo of guano imported into London from the re-
cently discovered island of Ichaboe, on the western coast
of Africa. The interest was increased by a similar sale
in Liverpool, a few days before, of the largest quantity
that has hitherto come. from the same place, in one
bottciPt, namely, the ship Blake, Of one thousand tons.
The competition at both sales was very spirited, and each
cargo was sold in about twenty minutes. The desire for
Ichaboe guano has arisen from the fact, that all the emi-
nent chemists who have analysed it, have found it
to possess the fertilizing properties in the highest
degree ; and the results of its application by practical
agriculturists has proved the correctness of their
analysis. The farmers in the northern and some of the
western districts in England and in Scotland, were
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kingdomr
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among the first' to try Guano, wher introdnced from
theauir years
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year
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on nd• have had the best
qualities:i.ncren a s
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twenty times above that of last year, being no
small evidence of the superior merits of this
invalu-
able manure. Besides the demand for home
consump-
tion, several ships have discharged in the West Indies,
and there are large orders for various ports on de
Continent. 'The immense benefit to the shipping inte-
rest, from this new branch of commerce, may be eon-
ceived, whep it is known that about four hundred ships
are on their way to Iclaboe and the adjoining islands
for the next year's supply, and that from this cause the
value of shipping has advanced fifteen to twenty per
cent. We perceive that a cargo of Ichaboe Guano is to
be sold tir public auction, at the Corn Market,Atark-
lane, Olt onday,.the 10th ijuottult,