The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-14 00:00:00

direct and declare by what persons, and in respect
of what offices, trusts, and commissions, and in what
manner, and at what time, and under what regula-
tions, the said declaration shall be made and sub-
scribed ; and that in case any person appointed to
any office, trust, or commission, shall neglect or re-
fuse to comply with the several directions and re-
quisites so as aforesaid made, the appointment of
such person to any such office, trust, or commission
shall be void.
" Provided nevertheless, that no act done in the
execution of any of the corporate or other offices,
places, trusts, or commissions aforesaid, by any such
person omitting or neglecting as aforesaid, shall by
reason thereof be void or ypidable as to the lights
of any other person not privy to such omission or
neglect, or render such last-mentioned person liable
to any action or indictment."--Ibid.
The Meeting of the inhabitants of the ward of
Bishopsgate Without, to take into consideration
the best means of being relieved from the effects
of the gas monopoly within that ward, would
not have been necessary, if the Common Coun-
cil were as right in their principles as they are
" patriotic" in their species. Here is a mono-
poly granted by the civic body to a Gas Com-
pany, which causes the inhabitants to pay for the
supply of that article, as was shown by Mr. Cor-
dell at the meeting, a price '25 and even 30 per
per cent. higher than is paid by their neighbours
in other districts, and than they could procure it
for if no such monopoly existed. By this means,
a sum which we cannot call by a more appro.
priate name than that of a monopoly-tax,
amounting to 1,500/., is raised, for the benefit
of what is called the Chartered Company, upon
the inhabitants of the ward, that sum being about
the excess of what they are now charged for gas
above what they could be supplied with it for if
the trade in that article was left to find its
own level by free competition. Is this the
way in which the Corporation of London
supports within their own jurisdiction those
principles of " free trade" of which we heard
so much in their speeches whenever the ques-
tion of the " Corn Laws" was taken into their

consideration ? We recollect how they charged
the landlords with maintaing a monopoly injuri-
wus to the interests of the manufacturing classes,
by exercising their influence to keep up the re-
3trietions upon the importation of foreign corn.
They were shocked at the very idea of any re-
striction at all being put on the principle of a
" free trade" in cont. Look to their Con-
sistency ! The same " liberal and patriotic"
body give a monopoly in gas to a favoured Com-
pany, which costs the inhabitants of a single
ward a tax of 1,500/. per annum ! We should
like to know what consideration the corporate
jobbers received for this privilege, which has
cost the inhabitants of Bishopsgate Without so
dear. Ore public principle and the money of
the public saerilce4 in this business to no indi-
vidual interests ? What did Mt. Arpthorpe
say ? He reminded the Meeting that a petition
had been presented on a former occasion, for
the purpose of causing an inquiry to be made ;
and the Commissioners of Sewers, in conse-
quence of this petition, appointed a suveyor to
examine into the grounds of its allegations.
What was the result. ? The petition was dis-
missed.—Why so ? Because the surveyor was
a member of the chartered Gas Company !
Morning fierald.
There is art unhappy wretch—a woman—to
be executed to-day, under circumstances the most
extraordinary that ever a criminal suffered. She
was indicted for child-murder, and the only proof
that was offered was, that she was seen passing
near the place where the hod' was
,found.
There was no evidence that the woman had had
a child at all, except her own admission to the
apprehending officer, which was coupled with the
assertion that her chill had been buried in
Marylebone church-yard, If the miserable cul-
prit was worthy of credit, all her story was to he
believed; if she was not, the first part was as
little evidence where on to build a verdict as

the last. She had no Attorney—no Counsel.
She said truly, she had not a friend in the wide
world. ! wonder of what stuff the hearts
were made to which the poor creature in her
agony made this simple and affecting appeal—
whether in their pilgrimage through life they had
ever Lnown the charities of sons, or brothers, or
fathers The ;fury which condemned her re-
commended her to mercy—why, it may well be
ask.ed A murderer, under circumstances of

the utmost atrocity—a murderer of unresisting
innocence ! Was mercy fit for such a one ? They
recommended her because of her youth—she was
a mother—and because the evidence was cir-
cwnstantial !! ! We asked, what were the
hearts—the world will ask, what were the heads
of these men ? The evidence was strong enough
to warrant a verdict of murder, and yet so weak
as to warrant a doubt of guilt ; and the com-
passionate and enlightened Jurygave the hangman
the benefit of the doubt, and the accused the
benefit of the verdict ! Really, in our country,
the poor, who have no friend in the world but

the intelligence of a Jury, hold their safety by a
slender thread, The cruelty of denying to the
poor wretch whose life may depend on the issue,
that legal assistance which he may have by ones,
by twos, and by threes, when a sixpence is at
stake, wilrl never be removed by reasoning. It is
only by a few terrible proofs of its consequences
that such a blot will be wiped out from our cri,
minal judicature.—New Times.

THE FA lit.—On Monday the influx of
strangers was immense, The streets of the town might be
said to present a moving Panorama; immense crowds of
persons being in perpetual action in every direction. The
chew cf cattle was not, we are informed, either so nume-
rous or of such good quality as has been known on some
previous occasions ; but prices, upon the whole, are rather
improving. Several shows are exhibiting their " wonder-
some" performances on Blakeley Moor. On Monday
evening, at a temporary place erected there under the de-
signation of a " Circus," an event occurred which inighs
have proved awfully calamitous. The people were leaving
the place, when from the rush and pressure against the
sides of the slight erection, the principal joist, which had
not been properly supported gave way, and striking a " sa-
gacious poney" killed it on the spot ! This was a fortu-
nate circumstance, for otherwise it is probable several lives
would have been lost. As it was one woman was most
severely injured, being struck on the back of the neck.
Blackburn Mail.

THE TIPPERARY OUTRAGES ACCOUNTED
FOR. BY THE 1191•1. JUSTICE Alf/ORE.-A person named
Daniel Gleegon was charged with having stolen a cloak ;
but by order of the Learned Judge acquitted,lthe case being
no more than a common assault. The remarks of Judge
Morita, on the discharge of the prisoner, are worth gold,
because they account for the demoralization of the Tippe-
rary " Boys," as the Evening Mail jocosely designates the
peasantry of that county. " This was a case," said the
enlightened Judge, "that ought not to be sent there (to
the Assizes) at all. The ctee did not even amount to a
petty larceny; twol yet upon this trivial case there was a
great waste of public money. 4 was greatly to be wished
that Magistrates had some discrimination. If any saga.
city were exercised, it must be immediately seen that such
a trivial case as this should never he sent to the As,izes.—
But Magistrates tumbled every thing into the Assizes; they
crammed the gaols full, and then they had the whole
empire talking of the magnitude of crime in Tipperary,
when one-third of the prisoners were generally turned out
without there being any cause for their prosecution."—
Thus are the Tipperary outrages accounted for by the lion.
Justice Moo RI. Unhapliv Ireland !--Dithlin Fireman's
,Journal.