The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-26 00:00:00

CLERKEN WELL.

Catherine Green and Anne James, sisters, were
charged with stealing a large quantity of pieces of
woollen-cloth, silk velvet, satin, and silk, the property of
William Lambe, a woollen-draper, residing at 100, Hol-
born-hill. Mr. Humphries was for the prosecution, tnd
Mr. Robinson for the defence.
It appeared from the evidence, which was very volu-
minous, that the prisoner, Green, entered the prosecu-
tor's service in April last, and was discharged on the 29th
of November. During her stay James was in the habit
of visiting her, and so was a man named Shaw, who has
since been tried at the Old Bailey for a robbery, and
sentenced to fourteen years' transportation. A few days
after Green's discharge, information reached Mr. Lambe,
which he communicated to the police, and she was ar-
rested at the dwelling of the prisoner James, in Crown-
court, Goswell-street. On her person was found a bunch of
keys, one of which opened a box of the prosecutor's, in
which the key of the warerooms was kept. In one of Green's
boxes there was another key which opened the ware-
rooms, and also several small pieces of velvets, silks, &e.
On further search nearly forty duplicates were discovered,
all of which related to portions of the stolen property.
It would appear from the dates of these duplicates that
from the time Green entered until she left her master's
employment she had scarcely ever ceased from plunder-
ing. The greater part of the velvets, cloths, and silks
she had manufactured into bonnets, cloaks, and dresses
by a milliner in Sutton-street, Clerkenwell, who was,
however, unconscious of the means by which they were
obtained. Shaw pawned the dresses, &c., at various
pawn offices, as also several pieces of the velvet and satin.
It did not appear that James was in want, for in her box
was found a book from the Savings' Bank, in which she
made frequent deposits. Twenty-five yards of cloth,
eight of silk velvet, eighteen yards of satin, and a piece
of silk were produced, besides a satin dress, value about
seven guineas.
Mr. Lamb identified all these articles as his property,
and the prisoners were fully committed for trial.
A little urchin named Doyle, aged about 14, whose
head could hardly be seen over the bar, was charged
with threatening the life of his mother, a widow, living
in Elder-walk, Islington.
The prisoner has been repeatedly convicted at police
courts, and was even tried at the Old Bailey. On the
previous evening his mother remonstrated with him on
the folly and wickedness of his conduct, but he seized a
chair and flung it at her head ; he then took up a pair
of scissors and swore he would put them through her
body, and in the excess of his rage actually jobbed them
into his own hand. The poor woman declared she
feared he would murder her.

Mr. GREENWOOD committed him to prison in defau
of bail. _ _

On his way to the cells, and in the bearing of the
Court, the little ruffian exclaimed, " When I come out
of prison I will break all her windows, and serve out the
d—d old b—h," meaning his mother.
Mr. GREENWOOD directed him to be brought back
again, and in default of bail, sent him. to the House of
Correction for two months. _ _ _

A ferocious-looking woman, named Muddyman, was
charged with, an assault of a very ferocious character on
the person of a decent female, named Susan Greengrass.
The parties live in the same house. The prisoner is the
landlady and has been threatening the life of the complainant
for several days. Mrs. Greengrass complained of having lost
some things, and the prisoner thereupon bundled up all the
complainant's goods which were in the kitchen and threw
them into her room up stairs. Mrs. Greengrass put them
down again, Wherettpon the prisoner attacked and beat her
in a very savage manner—she fastened her nails in her head
and tore half .the hair away. Such was the violence and
obstinacy of the assault that it required the combined exer-
tions of four persons to tear her away fioni the unfortunate
complainant. _ _

The magistrate fined the prisoner twenty-five shillings,
which, not being forthcoming, she was sent to prison.

UNION-HALL.

Ceorge,Warel, a labourer, in the employ of Messrs. Cottam
and Hallam, the extensive iron-founders, of the Cornwall-
road, Lambeth, was charged with stealing a pair of brass
hinges, intended for the cast-iron lighthouse, now in pro-
gress for the island of Bermuda.
The prisoner was taken into the employ of the above firm,
being at the time in very distressed circumstances. On the
preceding night the prisoner was seen in Roupel-street car-
rying the pair of hinges, which were of considerable value,
and formed part of the cast-iron lighthouse for Bermuda.'
When stopped he tried to make his escape, but was ulti-
mately taken into custody.
The foreman of the works attended, and stated that the
firm employed 100 men, and that of late articles of consider-,
able value were missed off the premises, but, although a strict
watch was kept, still no discovery took place until the pri-
soner was detected as above described.

The prisoner said that the articles were given to him by
one of the workmen on the premises; and as others are sus-
pected of being implicated in the robbery, the prisoner was
remanded until Wednesday.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
SENTENCES.

The following were sentenced to transportation for the
terms set against their respective names, viz. :
For Life—Captain W. Simpson, W. H. Barber, J. Fletcher.
For Fifteen Years—Martin Kelly, J. Barber, J. W. Sim-
mons, J. Burton, J. Edmonds.
For Fourteen Years—W. Brown.

For Ten Years—J. Grant, jun., J. Smith, J. Page, M.
Green, T. Wright, W. Bristow, B. Smith, J. Williams, J. J.
Ward, P. Ryan, W. Stropling, W. Gould. G. Barker, G. Bas-
sett, J. Grant, J. Wright, R. Frazer, J. H. Ganmer, G. Pitt-
man, T. Collims, J. Childs.
For Seven Years—Ann Elizabeth Earnshaw, Ellen Cal-
lighan, Emma Wills, Johanna Burns, S. Rose, S. Lumbi
E, Robotham, G. Comerford, C. Freeman, J. Clark, J. Smith,
T. Kerr, T. Bunn, T. Wanklen, T. Clark, C. Leaver, Ann
Turner, W. Saunders, J. Smith, W. Hatch, J. Kebble, James
Kebble, W. Brown, J. Brown.
Imprisonment, with hard labour, in the Houses of Cor-:
rection for the counties where the offences were committed :
For Two Years—T. Wright, T. Francis, J. Riches, T.
Francis, T. Lees, Georgiana Dorey, Lydia Saunders.
For Eighteen Months—P. Wetzel'.
For. Fifteen Months—T. Harrison. _

. For One Oliver, J. Birch, Elizabeth Watson,
Ann Tillicloft, Ann Willey, Martha Lee, Harriet Smith, Jane
Bunn, H. Williams, jun., W. Muther, D. Trubv, F. ltann, E.
Stokes, J. B. Tyler, A. Young, T. Freeman, H. Williams, S.
Haggett, A. Young.
For Nine Months—George Pollard, G. E. Slade, H. Gar •
rett. T. Brown, G. Reeves, G. Slade, H. Garrett, T. Tyrol!, J.
R. Moore, T. B. Proctor, E. Proctor, T. Purdy.
Six Menthe—Ellen Leary, T. Fewkes, G. Barnes, T.
Regan, J. Williams, H. Williams, F. Turner, J. Glanville, J.
Rawlinson, IV. Hustwaite. R. Hustwaite, W. Sanders, Mary
Williams, W. Shepherd, T. Sanders, W. Coyle, C. Thompson,
W. H. Hatten, F. Bennett, T. Potts, C. Indler, W. Cook, N.
B. Proctor, J. Winter, T. Ridley, John Smith, R. Bye, T.
Ormford, F. Fisher, T. Giddings, J. W. Banks, G. Adams, T.
Lucas, R. Hingham, J. Phillips.
Four Months—T. Holt, G. F. Norman, C. Reynolds, J.
Jackson, W. Borden, Sarah Richardson, Sarah M'Maley, T.
Richardson,'Sarah Richardson, J. Daniels.
Three. Months—Mary Collins, Margaret Jones, Mary
Kean, Mary Smith, Margaret Smith, W. %Vinyard, C. Roger-
son, G. Pomfrey, M. Gallighan, H. Moorcroft, H. Clark, J.
French, G. White, J. 4ones, J. Warren, W. White, A. Boyle,
G. Moore, M. Cubitt, E. Kelp, J. Dredale, J. Nicholson, S.
Payne, J. Little, 11. Stamford, Caroline Daley, C. Jones, G.
Harper, J. Williams, G. Wilson, J. King, W. Clark, J. Mailer,
J. Jackson, J.'Bosley.

Two MOnths—J.' Bashford, Mary Ann Badden, Maria
Lewis, Matilda Green, J. Heaver, T. Short, J. Pearce, W.
Watts. •

The grand jury ignored the. bills of indictment preferred
against the following prisoners, and they were discharged :
Margaret Bagwell, Harriet Odell, Susannah Birds, Eliza-
beth Johnson, Martha Johnson, Mary Ann Allen, Elizabeth
Donovon, Elizabeth Bryant, J. Norris, J. Beer, J. St:wen-
son, Elizabeth Smith, H. Jones, T. Brown, J. Black, T.
Townsend, H. Lawrence, J. Kennett, J. Dillon, and J.
Cummins.

Sentenced to Die—Mary Farley.
OTHER ADJUDICATIONS.

Imprisonment for six weeks, 5 ; imprisonment for one
month, 12 ; imprisonment from three to twenty •one days,
10; traversed or adjourned, 4 ; acquitted, 57 privately
whipped, 3 ; enlarged on his recognisance, 1 ; judgments re-
spited, 12 ; confessed, 37.
The Court, on its retiring from its unprecedented prolix
sitting, adjourned to Monday, the 6th of May next, when
Lord Chief Justice Denman," Mr. Baron Alderson, and Mr.
Justice Coltman will preside.

FREEMASONTLY.—InstaIIation of the Right Hon.
the Earl Zetland as M. W. Grand Master of the United Grand
Ledge of England.—Yesterday the interesting ceremonial of
installing the Grand Master took place in Freemasons' Halt,
in • the presence of many hundred Masters, Past anasters.
and Wardens, among whom were observed an unusual num
ber of provincial Grand Masters, and other Grand Officers.
Brother John Ranisbottom, M.P., and the Rev. W. Fallafieh:
eonducted the ceremonial. The scene was altogether most
striking and effective. The Grand Master, kneeling at tug
altar, received the addresses, and took the obligation, atniu
the prayers of the brethren, who, at the conclusion, paid him
the high honour of masonry. The Grand Master then
ap-
pointed .the following Grand Officers :—Right Hon. Eail
Howe, Deputy-Grand Master; Hon. Ridley Colborne, M.P..
and Thomas Smith, Esq., as Grand Wardens ; Brothers Peter
Thompson and C. Baumer, Grand Deacons ; J. B. Webb.
Grind Sword-bearer; and T. Cooke, Grand Organist. The
other Giand Officers were not changed. The appointments
which may
satisfaction, more especially that of Earl Howe;
may be adduced in proof of the value and importance
of Freemasonry, in thus enabling gentlemen of opposite poll-
tics to meet together on the broad basis of social principles.
The grand festival was unusually well attended, and reflected.
great credit on the Grand Stewards for their liberality. The
merits of the new Grand Organist, Brother Tom Cooke, and
his vocal friends must not pass in silence; the concert was
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Lord Canterbury, who has been suffering from a severe attack
of gout at Paris, was better at the date of the last cdviees.
THE POSTMEN AND HER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY
CELEDRATION.—According to annual custom, the letter-
carriers of the metropolis, both general and twopenny, have
been furnished with coats, waistcoats; and hats, which they
wore for the first time yesterday, in commemoration of her
Majesty's birth. The men thus clothed amount to upwards
of 700. One hundred and sixty have been taken into the
office during the last fortnight to enable the officers to carry
out the extra London district deliveries, which, we under-
atand;artto come into operation upon the ensuing let of Many.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
YRON TUE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The course which the Government has
taken with respect to the Ecclesiastical Courts Bill is
calculated to lower it in character, and to brand it
with merited and lasting reproach. The Bill has
passed its second reading. Dr. Nicholl, who has
been appointed dry-nurse to the Lord Chancellor's
bantling, gave notice last evening that he
intends on Monday to move the committal
of the Bill pro forma, in order that the House
mag get through the money clauses awarding compen-
sation to the sinecure holders, who have been allowed,
by sufferance, to fill posts, and perform the duties, by
deputy. It may, therefore, be a bootless task to per-
sist in denouncing the Bill. The public will have to
bear the burdens which it will impose. 'The Ministry
founded its claim to public confidence on many
grounds. Among others, the Reform it undertook
to effect in the administration of justice were espe-
cially dwelt upon. The Bankruptcy Law Re-
form—fraught with patronage to the Chancellor,
and with increased inconvenience and ex-
pense to the creditors, while it afforded additional
chances of escape to the fraudulent and improvident
bankrupt—was the first fruits of the promised Law
Reform. The Ecclesiastical Courts Bill—rendered
worse by the efforts to improve the measure which
was abandoned in despair last session—is the second
of the series. Party power was never prostituted to pur-
poses of mischief with perseverance so determined. No
measure was ever forced through Parliament with such
admissions of defects, by those who framed and fa-
shioned it : these have been humiliating and complete.
What, in effect, has been the language held by its
supporters ? "We admit that in pressing the pre-
sent measure we are without excuse, except on the
hasknied plea of expediency. We are open to re-
proach ; for we are compelled to reproach our-
selves. We confess that we have gone so far as,
personally, in our places in Parliament, to expressly
and deliberately utter and pronounce the sentence
of condemnation on ourselves, with reference to
this very proceeding. But we are a strong Govern-
ment ; and,- right or wrong, blamed by ourselves,
and condemned by others, we will do what we please.
We will, in fact, if we so like, do what we well know,
and admit, is wrong It is our fancy. Argue, or
not, as you like best—the end will be the same.
We can beat you on the division, and therefore
care little for the case you make out against us.
In fact, it may save you some trouble if we state
at once, that the principles upon which we con-
duct the business of the country are briefly these—
Sic rolo, sic jubeo, stet pro ratione voluntas."
Last session, in a discussion upon a Bill on the
same subject, which the Government withdrew, Sir
R. Peel asseverated, " So help me God, I have no in-
terest in the matter !" We have no desire to impugn
the solemn declaration. We certainly do think it un-
fortunate for the Right Hon. Baronet that the Bill, on
its very face, raises a presumption that some one in the
Cabinet has more concern in the adoption cf the
measure than the Premier himself. Certainly, if the
Bankruptcy Court Reform Bill be excepted, there has
been no recent change in the administration of the
law which creates so many snug berths, and so large
a portion of law patronage, as the Bill before us. Dr.
Nicholl would certainly have taken a larger amount
of benefit under the Bill cf last year. The present,
however, secures an increase of emolument not to be
sneezed upon. As Judge-Advocate, the Hon. and
Learned Doctor receives 2,0001. a year. The duties
of his office are performed by Deputy Judge-
Advocates—a set of functionaries who perform all
the drudgery, while the Principal rejoices in
his good fortune, snugly ensconced in his mansion in
Belgrave-square. Dr. Nicholl is also Vicar-General ;
an office the duties of which are almost as laborious as
that of Judge-Advocate ; the emoluments are, how-
ever, considerably less, being only about 4001. annually.
It must, therefore, be obvious, that to one so ill-pro-
vided for as Dr. Nicholl—whose duties are so onerous,
and his emoluments so light—it is a matter of supreme
importance, if not of absolute necessity, that he be
better provided for at the public cost. The salary fixed
by the present Ecclesiastical Courts Bill is not quite
equal to that of the last session, the untimely fate of
which no one deplores so deeply as the Learned
Doctor. 1,2001. a year is not to be rejected, espe-
cially when the office is one of little work. Doctor
Nicholl is therefore content to take the good the gods,
or rather the Lord Chancellor, has provided for him,
and earnestly wishes he may get it. In addition to
providing for Doctor Nicholl, the Govern-
ment has also to propitiate the country attorneys,
who practice in the Dioceses' Courts. Their profits,
derived from following the bipartite profession of
attorney and proctor, would have been diminished
had not the Diocesan Courts been retained ; and the
public interests—which, as the Government had
explicitly admitted, required the abolition of these
Courts—has been sacrificed, because these practi-
tioners, backed by the Bishops, were too formidable
to be dealt with by the " strong Government."
There was a little job-work also to be done in the way
of providing about thirty snug posts for juvenile bar-
risters. These gentlemen, though too young at present
to be of much use to the Government, will in time
grow into use. Their political influence, in the places
where their tiny Courts are to be held, may be of ser-
vice at a pinch. Perhaps, once in two or three
years they may exhibit, to the conviction of some
querulous Dissenting cobbler, the awfulness and or-
thodoxy of ecclesiastical law; proving to him, that for
refusing to pay a few pence, as church-rates, he may
be sent to prison " for his soul's health," until he
submit ! Now, returning to the assertion with which
we set out, that argument must be vain m hen em-
ployed with a Ministry which admits that its policy is
opposed to its own sense of justice, we may be held
justified in adhering to our opinion, that the So-help-
me-God" declaration of the Premier is all moon-
shine. Let Ministers throw over the utterly unne-
cessary and expensive Vicars Generalship. Let them
abolish that office entirely, and blot it from the Bill.
Let them—as the Report of the Ecclesiastical Courts
Commissioners, after mature deliberation, recom-
mended—annihilate all the Diocesan Ecclesiastical
Courts ; there will be then no slight passed, and
no injury inflicted, upon a highly respectable, learned,
and honourable class of men, the College of Advo-
cates, by the appointment of a number of suckling
judges, such as the Bill now proposes to create.
Let them allow no man to ride rough-shod over
them, under the apprehension of losing his Parlia-
mentary support. Let them, in short, do that
which in their own consciences they know, and
which their own
,lips have admitted, would be
right. Let them abide by that which they pro-
fess to have made the basis, and;which ought reilly to
be their guide, in legislating for the improvement of
the Ecclesiastical Courts. The report of the Ecclesi-
astical Courts Commission is in the hands of the
public. The reforms recommended by that Com-
mission were such as the public interests de-
manded, and these the public had a right to
expect. The excuses which were urged for delay
in carrying out the recommendations of that Com-
mission are no longer available; for the grounds of
those excuses no longer exist. The Government,
were it honest in its professions, is possessed of
power sufficient to counteract the influences opposed
to those recommendations, and to carry a measure
which should embody them as a whole. Instead of
nobly rising superior to the weak and beggarly
elements which have combined to perpetuate the
institutions of a by-gone age, and to fasten them
upon a state of society to which they are not
merely inappropriate, but a positive nuisance
and an injury, they determine to lend themselves
as a Government, to their preservation ! They
chain the dead carcase to the living body ; and thus
fetter the movements, and jeopardize the health, of the
latter. And this is the result of Sir Robert Peel's
promise to reform the Ecclesiastical Courts, in con-
formity with the recommendations of the Ecclesias-.
tical Courts Commissioners, and by virtue of the
powers possessed by his " strong Government !"
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to be incorrect. Mr. Hogg had given a vote upon
the Nottingham Election Committee, so clearly
opposed to law and evidence, that we loudly remon-
strated against it at the time, and have never heard
a man since who would seriously undertake to
justify it. These were errors, but such errors as
the best men might commit, and the characters
of the Right Honourable Home Secretary and of
the Learned Member for Beverley stand so high,
that every unprejudiced man feels that they
cast no stain upon the integrity or honour of either
gentleman : but Mr. Ferrand, who is not an unpreju-
diced man, who, as the party injured by one error, and
as the friend and political associate of the party injured
in the other, cannot be an unprejudiced man, takes a
prejudiced man's views of the errors referred to, and
ascribes them to motives whic'l certainly could never
enter the breasts of the upright and honourable men
whom he accuses. Is Mr. Ferrand to blame for this,
to blame for not being infallible in judgment in a
case in which his feelings are warmly excited ?
Where are the judges who will condemn him ?
We, certainly, who remember how often we have
unjustly imputed bad motives because we saw
bad acts for which we could not find good ones
—will certainly not be the first to cast a
stone. "But a locus penitentice is left open to the
Member for Knaresborough : if on Friday he con-
fessfact
=is
his error he may
.be forgiven. What error is
he
rrto confess, error in fact or error in opinion ?
A.tioottd.seclarreeportthecordriescmt, orissed
Mr. Hogg's vote on the Nottingham Elec-
tion Committee
a proper vote ? If he does this,
he will do what scarcely another man in Eng-
land would do, and what would •
degrade him—
may we be.permitted to say the .liouse of Commons

•
with him—below what the worst enemies of that !
House could- ever bring it to. But if it is the
I erroneous opinion which Mr. Ferrand is re-
(piked to retract, we ask by what authority
does this new inquisition—the House of Corn-
: mons—claim to exercise a despotism over men's opi-
ni a ? And in what a base light wouLi Mr.
Ferrand appear to the country if he should be the
first to submit to such tyranny. The House professes
to be wonderfully chary of its honour, as committed
in the honour of its Members. Be it so ; let the
• House guard its honour, and the honour of its
whole household, with the jealous vigilance of a
Spanish husband. Let its self-elected sentinels of
Parliamentary and personal honour—Mr. Papineau
Roebuck, Mr. Black-is-White Hume, and Mr.
Mexico Ward keep watch, and Lord John
Russell take command of the guard, confident
that he will not be compelled to fly from his post,
as he did from the Castle-yard, Exeter, by the cry,
" The Bishop is coming," with a certain
Totnes speech in his hand! let the House,
we say, jealously guard the honour of its
whole household, but let it be impartial in
the exercise of its guardianship; and let it
_ _

not, in order to protect -two of its Members from a
loose, doubtful, and wholly unsuccessful aspersion,
insist upon the solemn degradation of another, by
compelling him to state what he thinks a falsehood,
or ensure its own degradation, by challenging from
him that refusal which it is almost certain to
receive.