The Sun.
London, England, 1828-07-09 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.-JULY 8.

The Old Bailey Sessions terminated yesterday. The fol-
lowing are the names of the prisoners who received sen-
tence :

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Death—George Groves, for robbery on the person ; W.
Jackson, for housebreaking ; Joseph Malcolm, for cattle-
stealing; Jane Devereux and Charles Thorpe, for stealing
M a dwelling-house; Thomas Walker and R. Breach, for
robbery on the person ; Ann Smith and W. Branston, for
housebreaking.
Transported for Life—Frederick Carmen, J. Clarke,
W. Millingham, Mary Lewis, Patrick Hoskins, and Geo.
Garlick.

For Fourteen Years—Thomas Ledge, M. M'Donahl,
Margaret Healey, Edward Hogg, Samuel Dyke, Sarah
Burke, Abraham West, John Smith, William Mayo,
Mary Davis, Mary Worthington, John Fell, and George
Rowley.
For Two Terms of seven Years—James Pickering and
W. Palmer.

For Seven Years—John Casey (tried for the murder of
but found guilty of manslaughter) ; J. Trott
aL\i‘.7l Long
Tj. olit'en Reardon, for bigamy ; Mary Clarke, J. Weaver,
Layton, L. Phillips, H. Pointer, E. Alder, .1. Weare
alias Shepherd, R. Stone, T. Barrett, H. Staunton, J.
peace, G. Cooper, Harriet Milton, J. Alissey, J. Donald,
J. Jones, S. Morgan, W. Birnhant, Louisa Armstrong,
J. Johnson, J. Taylor, J. Shea, .1. Sweeney, .1. Staple-
ton, Jane White, 11. Smith, W. Reeson, H. Brookes,
H. Thompson alias French, W. Gibbs, W. Holmes, J.
Fenn, Coombes, Wilcox, F. Fisher, A. Coleman,
C. Sealand, J. Thompson, G. Aspern, J. Thornton, J.
Taylor, Catherine Mark, and Thomas Davison alias T.
Roberts.

or Twelve :Mouthy in the House of Correction—R.
Gerrard, IL Jacobs, Edw. Volebrooke, H. Rennin, and
G. Focart.

For Six Months in ditto—J. Cole, T. Sullivan, W.
Ainsworth, E. Whitaker, J. Bullough, Mary Burnett,
Stainsbury, W. Parish, W. Devil, 11. Dreadry, R.
11111, and El 4. Royer.
The remainder of the prisoners were then sentenced to
various terms of confinement, from five months to seven
days. _

Joseph Green and Henri• Haythorn were ordered to be
whipped and discharged.

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Dls4ppolNTEp LQVERs•----A youthful
poople repaired to the church at Kirkheaton, near Hud-
dersfield, on Thursday last, fur the purpose of being mar-
ried ; but just as the clergyman was about to commence
the ceremony, the father of the lady entered and forbade
the marriage, on the ground that she was under age,
though he had previously given his consent, and the banns
had been regularly published,--Leeds Mercury.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.

MONDAY, JULY 7.—High water 44 rain. past seven.
Wind W.S.W.--Arrived the London, Brown, from
New York ; Boston, Finlay, from Savannah ; Providence,
M'lntosh, from Demerara ; Elizabeth, ---, from
Mobile.

CLEARER OUTWARDS.—The Rashleigh, Johns, for
Jersey ; Elizabeth, Armstrong, for Trinidad ; Caraboo,
Cooke, for Monte Video; Hersselling, Karsgns, for Ant-
werp ; Concordia de Bren, for ditto ; and the Grecian,
Blanchard, for New York.
Telegraph Office.
Wind at Holyhead S.S.NV., light breeze.—Pilot boats,
Nos. 9 and 3, off Point Lynas.
Two brigs, inward bound, at 8 a.m. off Great Orms'
Head.

A ship and a brig, outward hound, and a pilot boat, oft'
Void Naut.

Passed Point Lynas, outward bound, the Gipsy, Bri-
tish brig.

1 45.—Four ship, three brigs off Great Orms' Heal,
outward bound.

SINGULAR CORRESPONDENCE.

THE REV. J. W. CUNNINGHAM AND Slit JAMES

SCARLI:TT.

The following letters have been transmitted to us
from a highly respectable quarter, and we have every
reason to believe in their authenticity. The corres-
pondence, it will be perceived, arose out of a toast
which has been usually given at the table of the Bar
of the Northern Circuit. The Rev. J. \V. Cun-
ningham is Vicar of Harrow:—
" Harrow, Middlesex, March 29.

" Dear Sir,—Although I cannot farther claim the
honour of an acquaintance with you, than from
haying a long and, to me, interesting conversation
with you at Cambridge, at a moment when parti-
cular circumstances prevented my giving you that
vote which otherwise I - should have been glad to
give, I must hope that the subject of this letter
will prove the best apology for it. There is no man,
I am persuaded, a more cordial friend to real
liberty of opinion and practice, where they do
not interfere with the rights of others, than yourself.
I am also persuaded, that wherever the power is
conferred on you of restoring to others the right of
thinking, speaking, and acting for themselves, under
the limitations I have stated, no one would be
more happy to exercise that power than you. But
there is a particular circumstance which, under these
impressions of your general character, I am unable
to explain. The subject has been much brought
under discussion in various circles of late, that on
the Northern Circuit, the Bar, whatever may be
the views of morality, are compelled, by a vulgar
and tyrannical custom, to drink a toast from which
common decency and morality, as well as the refine-
ment of modern society, altogether shrink. I was,
myself, when the question ,was started, convinced
that such a custom would now be found only in the
mess-room of a marching regiment, or among the
law-clubs of a country town; but I have learned,
with the deepest regret and astonishment, that the
charge really lies against a body of the most intel-
lectual and gentleman-like men in the world; and
that I could not send a son to the bar without his
being compelled to drink a toast which makes it a
duty and a pleasure for every man to seduce his
neighbour's child, or sleep with his friend's wife,
whenever he has the opportunity ! Nuw, for my•
self, I must say, that I would as soon cut off my
boy's hands, as constrain him to enter a profession
where he must give his public testimony to a vice
which is, of all others, to say nothing of its conse-
quences in another world, the most fertile source of
misery in this. Is the son of an Englishman to have
such a bar opposed to his progress in a liberal profes-
sion ? Have we not a right to expect that the bar
shall not be behind every other society of indepen-
dent and liberal men ? and to put the matter in still
stronger grounds, ought the national defenders of
justice and morality to be the lingering champions
of gross immorality ? Ought the men who advo-
cate the cause of Christianity as part of the law of the
land, to lend their public sanction to a vice of which
Christianity predicts the most awful penalty to the
offender ? I have taken the liberty of addressing a
letter somewhat similar to this to Mr. Brougham,
whom I have the pleasure of knowing; and who has
too muril both of understanding and good feeling
not to admit the justice of the appeal. I will not
trouble you, Sir, by saying more on the subject,
except to implore your forgiveness for thus trespas-
sing on your time and attention. Happy shall Ibe
if it lead one of the most eminent lawyers in the
world to bring his great talents to the defence of
common modesty and decency, and to withhold that
impulse to debauchery, of which no young lawyer,
any more than the rest of his species, can stand in
need. I beg once more to apologise to you, and:am
CUNNINGHAM."
your obedient humble s,e,rrnvit