The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-16 00:00:00

a sum of 200 florins. On every marriage 30
florins are paid to the poor. Looking at the
Population Lists of the different parishes, and
the number of poor, we should say that the latter
greatly exceed the proportion in England. The
number receiving relief varies with the severity of
the year. In 1817, a very severe year, 1,000
out of a population of 2,500, in the parish of
Urnasch, received relief. In the Canton of Lu-
cerne, a Councillor of Government, his Re
port on the Poor, concludes ss ith observing,
" The-increase of the poor is easy, the dirniuu-
tion difficult, and the more so if every one
should be left to the'imj.oyment of his liberty.
Whether society, which is bound to support
those who are in poverty, shall leave to each of
its members his liberty, is a question which we
shall not now discuss. This, however, is cer-
tain, that if a man should he left in possession
of his liberty, it must not be abused to the de-
triment cf others." This is the language of Re-
publican Switzerland ; but necessity has no law.
Where there arc more men on a plank than it
will bear, each tries to throw his neighbour off.
The social system of Europe seems every where
threatened with evils which in a short time will
produce serious results. In Bavaria, Wurtem-
burg, and the populous districts on the Rhine,
very strong measures have already been adopted.
In the Netherlands, where pauperism is exces-
sive, relief has been sought in Pauper Colonies.
—Morning Chronicle.
We are glad to see it announced that the
Metropolis Road Commissioners are about to
remove the Turnpike-gate at Knightsbridge ;
..nd we bust that they will soon have it in their
power to confer a similar boon upon those who
have to encounter similar nuisances in other
parts of the town ; for, straisge to say, while the
inhabitants of the metropolis are heavily taxed
by their respective Paring Boards, for keeping
the streets in order, a great part of them can
scarcely stir from their doors, on horseback or
in any kind of vehicle, without being again taxed
sat these toil-bars, and not (infrequently insulted
and sometimes beaten too, by the ruffians who.
have the charge of some of them, into the bar-
gain. This is an evil against which we have
been long contending ; and the main obstacle to
the attainment of A-remedy for which, we have
no doubt, has hithetto been the extravagance,
the jobbing, and mismanagement, of those who
had the regulation of these matters under the
old trusts. Were it not upon record, and
proved - indispistalsfr before Parliament, it
would hardly ,he. believed that, with an
ample and almost Arbitraty revenue, there
was scarcely' One of .these trusts, as they
were called; which had iitie shown their
total want of trust-worthiness
_by having a large
debt entailed updn their funds, the managemesa,
or rather iniAtillinagement, of which generally
furnished'a ssut birth for one or more of their
own immaenlate body, or some of their near
connections. Besides finding many of the roada
themselves in a dilapidateti state, Lord Low-
ther's commission had to grapple w 4.1) this hydra
of debt, which; spread over the different tisests,
was of an enormous amount, and is still, we fear,
far from tieing inconsiderable. However, the
source being. got rid of, there is a chance, at
least, of the evil•itieif diminishing. We do not
know of a better (?4rliea which the new Com-
Triissioners could give cf. Llesire to consult
the public convenience than hy_ the emoval of
the gate in question. Next to this, we rigid
direct their attention to the whole line of those
on the New Road, from Lslingtoa .to Padding-
ton. However otherwise this. road may have
been originally, it is now as much a street 662
Piccadilly or Oxford-street ;. and we might just
as well see these toll-bars put up in the
,Strand,
or at Charing-cross, as see them permitted tp
remain in the great public thoroughfare wc ;is
lode to.—Morning Herald.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

NAligIO?1-HOUSE.

Yesterday turd men named Brown and Baker,.
were charged before the LORD" MAYOR with having
committed a robbery; and Brown was charged with
having cut and maimed Roberts (the ofi-ler)
face, in order to facilitate the escape of Baieir kern
justice. . •
Roberts, in passing along the Migmies, yaw the
two prisoners under very suspicion.; circumstances.
Baker had a bundle in his apron, and seemed to haVe
been covered in his retreat by the other prisonet% The
officer immediately went up to Baker, and desired to
see what he-had in his apron. Brown, without hesi-
tation, run over to. the officer and struck-him (in the
officer's opinion) with &knife over the eye.- The
flesh was actually
:separated frotn the hone as if it
had been cut with a sword,,and the eye Was dread-
fully inflamed. The two prisoners endeavoured to
escape but were soon apprehended.
The surgeon who dressed the wound could-not
swear that the wound was given with a sharp in-
strument. He was of opinion that it might have
been inflicted with the fist.

No evidence wa% given as to Brown's possession
of knife, and .the, two prisoners were committed
for stealing the bundle contained in the apron ; it
having turned out that it contained two drums of
rigs, which had been stolen out of a cart a short time
previously.