The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-29 00:00:00

BOROUGH OF FINSBURY.

The following communication has been made by
Mr. T. S. Duncombe, M.P., to Mr. H. Griffiths, the
chairman of the committee appointed to remonstrate
with the Hon. Member on his absence from his Par-
liamentary duties :
" 5, Palace Chambers, St. James's, May 28, 1850.
" Sir,—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter, calling my most particular and serious attention
to a copy of some resolutions agreed to at certain pri-
vate meetings of a few of my constituents, over which
you had the honour to preside, at the Kent Hotel,
Brownlow-street, Holborn, and requesting me to explain
the reasons of my absence from my Parliamentary duties.
" I confess that until the receipt of your favour I did
not suppose that there could have been found in the well-
informed and extensive borough of Finsbury any person
ignorant of the fact that severe and dangerous illness
has been the sole cause of my absence from Parliament,
to the duties of which it has ever been my pride during
the twenty-three years that I have had the honour of a
seat in the House of Commons, to give an independent
and most unremitting attention, and during which period
my attendance, I am most thankful to say, has never re-
ceived a week's interruption until I was overwhelmed by
my recent painful and protracted illness.
" However, I air, happy to inform you that improved
and improving health enables me now to resume my
Parliamentary duties; and also that, having from the
commencement of my connexion with. Finsbury, pledged
myself over and over again to my constituents that so
long as it pleased God that health and strength should
remain to me, and so long as it should please Finsbury
to stand by me, I should stand by Finsbury,' I adhere to
that pledge. And further, I beg to inform you that,
being assured as I am that the great majority of my
constituents do not consider a passing illness, contracted
in their service, as sufficient ground for a withdrawal
of their confidence, I shall, when the present Parliament
has passed away, give to those on whose behalf you ad-
dress me au opportunity of recording their votes against
me—as some of tkem have done before.

"In the mean time. I beg to assure You that should
the opinions of my raedical attendants and my own an-
ticipations of returning health be doomed to disappoint-
men►, I shall not require any appeal from any portion
of those who have five times honoured me by returning
me to Parliament, as to the course which my own
honour, as well as their interests, will demand at my
hands.
" I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
Tuosiss S. DIINCOMBE.
" H. Griffiths, Esq., Chairman of the Kent Hotel
Committee, Brownlow-street.",

SURREY SESSIONS, May 28.
(Before Tuomas PUCKLE, Esq., and a full Bench of
Magistrates.)
A DISAPPOINTED WEDDING--FINDINGS NOT ALWAYS

KEEPING&
Charles Bass, 19, was indicted for stealing at Rich-
mond a sovereign, three half-sovereigns, and other
moneys, the property of Michael M'Donald.
The prosecutor stated that he was a gardener at
Richmond, and employed on the same estate with the
prisoner. On the morning of the 17th of April, at
the rear of a public-house where they had been drink-
ing, he dropped his money from his waistcoat pocket.
He made inquiries about it, but could gain no tidings
until a late hour in the evening, when he met the
prisoner, who bragged about finding the cash, but re-
fused to give it up. Knowing that it was his money
he called in a police-constable and gave him into
custody, when it was ascertained that he had spent
all the money in purchasing a ring and providing
things for his wedding with a young woman.
A police-constable of the V division stated that he

took the prisoner into custody, and ascertained from
him that he had found some money in the place where
the prosecutor dropped it. From information he
received he went to the house of a female named
Tyler, where he found a new dress, some white rib-
bon, and a gold ring, which the latter told him had
been given to her by the prisoner, who was about to
marry her.
Mary Ann Tyler, a respectable-looking young
woman, stated that she resided at Barnes, and had
kept company with the prisoner for five years. On
the afternoon of the 17th of April he came to her house
and wished her to go with him to the parish clerk,
and put up the banns of marriage. They went out
for that purpose, and on their way to the clerk's house
the prisoner purchased their wedding-ring, and after-
wards a new dress and some white ribbon. Being too
late for publishing the banns they parted company,
and witness took home with her the articles they had
purchased. When the policeman came she handed
everything to him.
In cross-examination by Mr. CITARNOCK' the pri-
soner's counsel, witness stated that she had been much
disappointed, as she was to have been married to the
prisoner three weeks ago. She hoped the ring would
not be taken away from them, as it would spoil their
happiness.— ( Laugh ter.) What he purchased
amounted to 303., and as he had always plenty of mo-
ney she thought it was his own. She did not know
that he found it.

Mr. CHARNOCK, for the prisoner, said he could not
deny that his client found the money in the place
stated by the prosecutor, but according to the vulgar
error acted upon by uneducatee, persons who were
unacquainted with the laws of the country. he had
foolishly appropriated it to his own u,e, at the same
time not knowing to whom it belonged. The Learned
Counsel quoted several cases, and referred to Baron
Parke's decision on a similar occasion, wherein the
party was acquitted. The prisoner had suffered six
weeks' imprisonment, which, he believed, world b(:' a
sufficient caution to him as to his future conduct.

-The CHAIRMAN, in summing up, said the question
was, whether the prisoner knew to whom the money