The Sun.
London, England, 1826-01-16 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY SEiSIONS.

OLD COURT.—('tiers Der.)
Geo. William Kerridge who was tried on Sa-
turday in the New Court, and convicted of lar-
ceny, was this day put to the bar, charged with
forging and uttering as true a certain document,
well knowing the same to be u forgery.
Mr. AmuttEws, who appeared as Counsel for
him, applied to postpone the trial, on the ground
that until Saturday evening last no bill had been
[tied against him for the capital charge, and he
having, been on that day put on his trial, and con-
victed of larceny, he had been taken by sur-
. prise, and was of course now unprepared to go to
trial.

Mr. ALLEY, on the part of the prosecution,
said he will unaware that the present application
would have been wade, he %las, hovvevery in.
strutted by his clients to state, that they ‘Would
rather be at the ex pence of again bringing. up
their witnesses from the country than have it said
they had taken any the slightest advantage of the
pri,,oner.

Mr. Justice PAItKE said, as the case stood at
present, the Court could nut accede to the mo-
tion. It was necessary that good and sufficient
cause should appear on the records of the Court
for postponing a trial, as they (the Judges) Were
sent here to clear the gaol of Newgate of all pri.
soners standing charged with crimes against. the
law. If, however, the prosecutors .consettted to
an adjournment, the Court %%mild not order
otherwise ; but if that was not done, the case
must proceed. In fact, the prisoner had himself
said he wished Iris trial to proceed.
Mr. Ara.t:Y.—My Lords, I do not consent,
but I will offer no objection. I am sure my
clients have, throughout the whole of this trues•
.action, acted in Elie most liberal manner.
Mr. ANDREW~—I am sure 1 would be the last
man in the world to attribute any thing else to
them.

Mr. ust ice PARKE— Prium er, do you wish
your trial to proceed forthwith, or do you wish
to have it postponed ?
Prisoner—My Lord, I will letivfl it to my
Advocate.

Mr. ANDREWS—My Lord, I
am ready to con.
sent, so for as oirvring no opposition.
Mr. Justice PARKE—Let the case stand over,
and lot it be recorded that it is done by consent.

Strac-Tftanc—The extreme distress which
the Spitalfields weavers, and those employed in
the mem:facture of silk goods, are at this mu-
meat labouring under, in consequence of the total
stop put to all manufactories, is beyond precedent.:'
At no period during the last 30 years has the went
of employ ever been so general, or poverty so uni-
versally appa rent, as it is on the present occasion.
The account of the number of looms standing id I,e
and weavers, &e., out of employ, in Spitalfiehis
and its environs, was forwarded to the trade
Committee last Saturday. The report was as
folloWs :---Luoms, 15,000 ; weavers, &c., 18,000,
—adding wives and children to this number, it.
may be fairly calculated that there are 30,000
souls at this inclement season suffering the most:
painful privations. In Bethnal-green perish the
is felt most severely, particularly among.
the tradespeople, who, as they find the poor-
rat" inCrease, their means to pay them diminish.
—The following is a correct abstreat from the
work-house hooks of the above parish alone, op
to Friday lasil viz :--Paupers M the house, 800;
ditto receiving relief out of the house, 1,000..
Received into the house on Saturday (in addition
to the above number) twenty-four families, some
of whom having from one to six Children each.
The house is now so full they are obliged to sleep
three and four in a bed.

Capital.

An Express, bringing the Etoile of yesterday,
arrived et a late hour. The latest quotation of
Rentes is, for the Thee (end of the month)
SBf. lOc. ; for the Threes, tl6f. 05e. Private letters
state the plague to Nave broken out with great
violence in Moldavia and Wallachia.

The Moil. of Saturday, contains a more minute'
detail of particulars connected with the resistance.
of the Regiment of Moscow, than has hitherto
appeared. It is evidently a laboured production,
having for its object to show, that the refusal to
swear allegiance to NICUOLAY, was confined to
two companies of the Regiment 44 commanded
44 by seven or eight subaltern officers," who
were joined by " some persons in civil costume,"
and surrounded by " individuals of the dregs of
cc the people.'►

It is however manifest, from R subsequent pas-
sage in the narrative, that the entire) Itegiment had
.
refused to take tho oath. The Grand Duke
MtcssAur, however induced the six companies
who had not marched out with'their comrades
to submit, and take the required oath. In
truth, there appears to have been a crisis in the
Russian capital, during which the success of
NICHOLAS remained doubtful; and it was not un-
til the approach of night " when all appeal to
44 the mutineers had proved fruitless—when even
" the voice of the Metropolitan of St.-Petersburg
" had been disregarded, that the Emperor resolv-
"id to use force." Thus, two companies of a
single regiment, were suffered to brave the whole
garrison of St. Petersburgh for several hours,
even after one of the most celebrated Generals,
pistolled by a pri-
M LOR A OOVITsCR, had been
vain individual The Etoile of yesterday
contains a
,letter from Saint Petersburg!), of
the tOth of December, purporting to be
a continuation of the narrative in the Etoils of
Saturday. In this letter, after extolling the
magnanimous forbearance of NICHOLAS, it is
observed with exultation, that although the
mutineers remained four hours iu a public
square, to which the avenues for a long time
remained open, they were joined only by some
soldiers and private persons, all in a state
intoxication. Above all, the fidelity of the
Guards appears to here been the subject of con-
gratulation, " only some feW oonipanies hav-
ing been seduced or misled."
An opinion is expressed, that this re`volt was
but a mask to cover the real views of those

by whom it was excited--to create a movernfist
that might ultimately involve the Empire
In anarchy. The EMPEROR, constantly declared
in the several parleys with the mutineers, that
although he would pardon ,the soldiers, the
Officers *should certainly be punished. All ihe
troops-had returned' to their barracks,-and Count

KODISOFP had been named successor to MILAIti.
DOVITSCH, as Military Governor of the Russike

From Saint Petersbugh we turn to Warsaw,
whence letters are stated to have been received
of the 9.d.inst., announcing, that CONSTANTINg
had- administered the oath to all the Regirnetni
there, and had dispatched orders for taking
the oath to every corps of the army, in Poland,.
The form of the oath is, to be faithful to "
ttw
66 Emperor Nicnoz.as,and to his legitimate heir,ll,
" Grand Duke ALIXANDER." The report whicii
I had been in circulation at Berlin, of the refusal
of two Regiments to take the oath, and of as-
vend officers having in consequence been shot by
order of COIISTAXTINE,is expressly contradicted.
The Etoile remarks, that NICHOLAS has thus
succeeded to the Throne by—two spontaneous
renunciations by his Brother CONSTANTINIPP-•
66 by the last will of the Emperor AmaANPO4
" and by the fundamental law on the order of
66 the succession."

It is remarkable, as the Comiitutionnel of Sea
tnrduy observes, that amongst the documents sta+
companying the Manifesto, the most important
—that, by which CONSTANTINC is said to have
manifested his will, relative to the oath taken in
the first instance by the Emperor Ntclintts.
Whatever may have been the origin, awl
true (Muse of CONSTANTINE'S exclusion, from
the throne, NICHOLAS must now be considered
to have obtained possession of the Crown ; and
with so little opposition, that there can be us*
present danger of any further contest for
the succession. If NICHOL IS be sincere in La
Professions of pursuing the policy of A LEXANDIN,
the tranquillity of Europe may for sometime longer
remain undisturbed. There is, neverthelen,
a mystery enveloping the politics of Russia,
which defying, at the present, all scrutinYs
involves the policy and views of the Cabilios
of St. Petersburgh, in unfathomable incertitude.

By the arrival of Flanders and riamberflk
Mails we have received Continental Palo",
from which the following are extracts:—

BRUSSELS, JAI. IS;
If we may believe letters from Frankfort, the events whiff
have taken place at St. Petersburgh were much morepri°lll
than the Berlin Journals represent. It seems that the eonallt
was sanguinary, and that the great agitation still prevails in
that capital. Time alone can clear up what is still obscurs
the events that have taken place since the death of the Empoggs
Alexander.—(Bruszels Papers, Jan. 14.)

_
ODF.3BA, Dt{o.2l•
All the military and civil authorities here have today tall°
the oath of allegiance to the Emperor Constantine. The Jib;
merous Greeks residing here are delighted at the *egression u' '
the Emperor, whose name they consider as a good omen; 10$
persons who pretend to be acquainted with the Court and th°
persons about the Emperor Constantine, affirm that whim
Grand Duke, he full approved of the system pursued by his Ws
brother.

_____
FllO/1 THE POLISH FRONTIERS, AS l•
l'he Capital of Poland had gone into morning up to 2146
Dec. for the Emperor Alexander, and it was not till that tie.

that the IVarsaw Gazette contained the notice of his &db.
While ell the orders from St. Petersburg'', for instance tll°.
relative the taking the oath by the Russian subjects are itil"4
in the name of the Emperor Constantine the First. Old
Prince still calls and signs himself as Grand Duke, and forte
those about him to give him the title of Majesty. On the
rival of the news of the Emperor's death, which the Y 0614
Count Uurjeois presented to him kneeling, with the title of O 1
Prince Constantine refused the title with displeasure, 114
shut himself up with his Consort in his private apartmenlit
where he has been almost ever since inaccessible to every NAP
soon after the departure of the Grand Duke 'Michael fur 94'
Pctersburgh, the Grand Duke sent his Aid.ale-camp,
Kuruta, who possesses his entire confidence. On the OW
hand, the Procurator of the directing Senate came from 11.
Patersburgh to Warsaw, and was nut admitted to IS
Grand Duke Constantine, but was soon sent back to St. r'
tersburgh, as it is said, with a formal repetition of his proc96.
lug renunciation.

1.
Vitioi•, JAW.
The Court Gazette announces that Prince Paul I...,raiNgq.
not to go Ambassador to Paris, but to retain the Etnb:ol
Loudon, and Count Appony is to go to Paris, and not $.
London.

TRIERTX, Jill• 1'
We have received letters direct from Hydra to Dec. 18, why
state Napoli di Romania to be in a good state of defence. )11.,i
solongbi holds out bravely, and the Captain has not yet 0'44"
any, thing. Ibrahim Pacha has every where laid waste the
Mores, because not a single district would submit to 1111/.
This circumstance clearly spews the disposition of the peoploo -•
(.111gerneins Zeitsing.)

The Gazette of Saturday, it will [e 5,610 bl
our extracts, contains a dispatch from the C.;°'
vernor-General of Fort WTilliam, enclo•ing "vj
letters from Brigadier-General 111,13xAN, whi°l
afford the pleasing intelligence of the caPtury of
Ramree and Sandowey. The enemy retreatsa'
from both places on the approach of our troops;
" that this important service WUR perforiosti
without any loss of men on our part. The Desalt
of these successful operations is, that the Nur
provinces of Chedubs, Ramree, A rracan, had
Sandowey, are now subject to the Britibh Co'
Ternment.

PaTrihine KinenitNG'
itts pPer:ssoenu.t init"r":;:naoratig Preparations are uParetne:lll/ii
1" "II the streets and avenues laadint to.
!louse of Lords to receive his' MAISITY.