The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-14 00:00:00

Mr.WELLs had looked through the books carefully, but
he had certainly not been able to find any ease analogous
to thin. le put to his Lordship that great injus-
tice might b done to individuals if this arbitrary powtr
really did exist in the Poor-'aw Boar.l, since they could
discharge any paid officer, no matter whether he were
the clergyman of the union, the relieving officer, or the
master of the union workhouse, without assigning any
reason or cause for it.
Mr. Justice ERLE said he would take time to consider
the case before deciding the motion.

MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.)
PICKING POCKETE.—Charles Best,a welt-known thi, f,
was charged before Mr. Bingham with robbing a lady
of her purse, containing 255.
Checkley, 184 C, stated that about six o'clock on
Saturday evening he wit, on duty in Coventry-street,
when bis attention was called to the prisoner, whr, with
four others not in custody, were " dodging" the steps c f
several ladies. Witness w a cited their movements, and
saw, the prisoner a a'k up to the side f a lady and f .11ow
her f,r some dis'a ice, covered by the other mer. Oo
arriving at the corner of Windmill-street, he distinctly
saw the prisoner put his band into the lady's pocket,
and quickly withdtam it. The prisoner and his com-
panions then ran up Windmill-street as fast as they
could, and a per,on who was with witness went after the
lady and a certained that she had been robbed ef her
pursr, containing 255. and some f :reign coins. The lady
subsequently proceeded to the station and gave her name
and address, but she now declined to come forward to
prosecute. About an hour afterwards witness went to
the OA public-house, Seven Dials, where he saw the
prisoner and took him into custody. Oa searching him
at the station 16s. was found upon him. The constable
added that the prisoner was a notorious pickpocket, and
had been several times convicted for that offence.

The prisoner, who protested his innczence, was com-
mitted to the house cf Correction for three months.

THE SAINTS AT WORK AGAIN.
From half-past eight o'clock until noon, on Sun-
day last, Leather-lane, Holborn, was one continued
scene of uproar. Some parish officials, with a party
composed of the A and G divisions of police, paraded
the neighbourhood, and in no measured sentences
ordered the shopkeepers to close their establishments,
and desist from Sunday trading, under a threat that
they would seize upon their goods ; and actually they
had provided two or three vans to remove ttie things,
though none were carried away, the parties well
knowing that they would have violated the law, if
they had resorted to any such violent measures. The
newspaper placards were an- object of peculiar an-
noyance. They were forcibly removed and thrown
into the shops, and the newsvenders were commanded
to tear those down which were pasted on their shut-
ters. One individual, coming from Hatton-garden up
Charles-street, was not allowed to cross Leather-lane
because he had a basket on his arm. He was driven
back, and obliged to proceed round Holborn to his
destination. The proceedings altogether were lawless
and reckless, and never would have been
tolerated, or even winked at, by the Com-
missioners of Police. One of the Saints, an
undertaker, rendered himself more conspicuous than
his fellows. He actually prevented a poor half-
starved wretch from selling a ba, p.orth of onions. This
identical hypocrite, after he and his party had finished
measured. step, heading a
the onslaught, was actually, seen following his
" worldly calling on the Lords Day," by walking
with stately gait and
funeral procession, on a professional
visage as long as a man's arm. Not only, however,
and putting
was Leather -lane a scene of confusion. ; Gray's Inn-
lane had a taste of what the Saints would do if they
had power. A man named Neale, who is an In-
spector of Nuisances, entered the new svendors' shops,
and, though no obstruction was visible or existed,
ordered all the newspaper
placards to be torn down.
This meddling official was accompanied by the
" Paving Board," who were headed by the
No previous notice had been given of their intention.
The visiation was sudden and unexpected, and the
execution of the design was accompanied by a
roughness of manner that indicated what the parties
would accomplish if they were left to do as they
please. We have no hesitation in stating that their
conduct, and the proceedings of the Leather-lane
Solons, were altogether opposed to law. An Act of
Parliament is already in existence to punish parties
by fine who trade on the Sabbath. It is an
Act as old as the hills, and not suited to the present
state of society. We should as soon think of apply-
ing it to meet a case of the present day as going from
London to Edinburgh in a stage-waggon. None but
the most bigotted ' men, steeped to the chin in the
feculence of intolerance, or toadies to a rector, would
bring a man within its provisions. Leather-lane is
surrounded by a poor neighbourhood. Hundreds of
men are not paid their wages until a late hour on
Saturday night, when business is closed or closing.
It is of importance to such people that they should
have the opportunity of procuring little articles of
necessity on Sunday mornings. They do not go
drunk to market, but peaceably and quietly. No
riot or confusion is created. The saints would like
a few rotten eggs thrown at them as an excuse for
bludgeoning the people at the hands of the police. If
the law be violated, the violators are the Mawworms
and the police, and it is high time that a stop
were put to such unworthy, un-Christianlike
proceeding;, which involve a . neighbourhood in
uproar, and instead of making people reli-
gious, create animosity and dislike towards
those who ought to live on terms of charity with
their neighbours. Hear Mr. Fox, who, in his excellent
" Lnture on the Use and Abuse of Sunday," says
I c.sndemn no man's practice, who is conscien-
tious and consistent, as far as his intellect penetrates.
If I were asked the question, What is keeping the
Sabbath holy ?' I should reply, It is in each fol-
lowing out the best and purest impulses of his being,
wherever they may lead him.' He who, feeling what
little advantage he has had for the cultivation of his
mind, retires to his own poor study, there shuts out
the world,' and calls home bis thoughts ;' who ap -
plies for instruction to those who in all ages and
countries, whether we denominate them sacred or
profane, have spoken the words of wisdom and truth ;
who there endeavours to raise his mind to a com-
panionship with the noblest spirits of the earth, and
imbibe from them the inspiration of that wisdom
which is paramount over all earth's concerns—he too,
holy the Sabbath-day.' He who,
.lix days in the populous city
is
been 'keeping e
duringep g
pent,' feeling hi▪ s mind and body both stifled thereby,
Ih
having
its atmosphere unwholesome, and its streets, lanes,
and squares, wearisomely associated with his daily
mechanical employments,. flies away from all this,
and gets out of i▪ t
—who wants a sense of the external
freeness ol the air to give him a sensation of freeness of
spirit, why he, too, I say, keeps holy the Sabbath-
day: He who is inevitably, but painfully disso-
ciated from those dear to 'him, through their separate
toiling and moiling all the week, but who, when the
Sunday comes, gathers his wife, children, and friends
around him in his household temple—who
makes it a day for the cultivation of every
snocial feeling and , affection—who gives the
heartits turn as well as the laborious hand
—why he, in his loves and fears, his sympathies and
hopes, he too keeps holy the Sabbath-day.' But
they who, in whatever place, and however consecrated,
meet together to encourage a sectarian exclusiveness,
to dwelt on their own opinions as essential to the
belief and the salvation of all mankind—who are en-
couraging one another, not to love and good works,
but to presumption, bigotry, and evil works—who
are arrogating to themselves, not merely an establish-
ment of the good things of this world, but eternity
and heaven as their peculiar heritage—who thus dis-
sociate themselves from God's great family, and from
the Christian principle of universal love—why, I say, in
spite of all their forms and pretensions, they are the
great desecrators of the Sabbath.-day."— Weekly
Dispatch.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY AT BRIQIITON BARRACKS.
We are sorry to add thst another and a far more exten
sive robbery tom the last has taken place at the Cavalry
Barracks, and, from the circumstances coanected with it,
there do: s not appear much doubt of its having been
effected by persons well acquainted with -the premises.
It appears that Colonel Ainslie went to Hats circus on
Friday evening last, having taken the precaution to lock
up his rooms IN fore he left. On his return, about eleven
o'clock, he unlocked the door, when he found the floor
in confusion. The drawers were open, his dressing-case
was gone, and an agate box, containing some valuable
jewellery, was not to be fiund. The thieves had carried
off a gold watch and the jewellery, consis.ted of gold
pins, chains and studs, diamonds, !marls, m Duey, &c., to
the value altogether of about 130/. It h appens that
most of the art'cles bear the owner's crest, and can be
easily identified. A noun. named Gladman, in the err.-
ploy of the Earl of Chichester, discovered. the empty
dressing-case of Colonel Ainslie under awe 11 near the
barracks. The party that placed it there must have
gone through the barrack gates, which was guarded by
a soldier who was onee charged bef,,re the -magi,trates
with being concerned in a felony at the barracks. It is
supposed that the afartments were entered by a dupli-
cate key. Net long since the Colonel lost his key, and
was obliged to have another made; and the 'inference is
that the key was stiles for the purpose of effecting
a robbery. No clue to the discovery of the
thief has been obtained, although the utmost vigilance
has been used. —Brighton Gazette.
WHAT SHALL WE PO WITH OUR DEAD?--We Still
do fear the mighty prejudice cf the people in favour of
the worm ; but the association just formed, as we last
week announced, for the solemn reinstitution of the
funeral pyre, will at least keep the question alive ohould
it fail to do much more. In the meantime, mig ht we
further suggest, that until the public mind shall be s ome-
what familiarized with this great sanitary idea, the eiffi -
culty may be less to reconcile it to the practice of im
withbsdd
quickeachs
corpseuien coffin filled up and compre ,seedh a a
practice would at first be less
repugnant perhaps to public feeling, and we do bel lave,
that were the Legislature at once to establish it as a
law, the propriety of the practice would be si'aently,
though it might bo with a sigh, acceded to. Tne last
office, previous to burial, aid after the last lingering look
1-al been taker, might he the f mina! sprinkling of the
deal with the best of all earth for the accomplishment of
so sacred arid efficient an end as this summary return, of
"dust to dust."—Builder.