The Sun.
London, England, 1828-05-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We were greatly amused by the anxiety manifest-
ed by several lion. Members, in the discussion aris-
ing out of Mr. Davenport's motion for leave to bring
in a Bill to allow to Criminals accused of Petty Fe-
lonies the option of summary conviction by two or
more Magistrates, lest too great discretionary power
should thereby be given to Magistrates. Too great
discretionary power, in a Country like this, where all
is diseretion—where every Magistrate has his own
law and his own practices—where one Judge re-
commends from the Bench what another condemns
—and where inferior Magistrates are equally regard-
less of the recommendations and condemnations of
their superiors! We should be glad to know what a
Judge or a Magistrate may not do with impunity.
Nothing is fixed, nothing uniform, but all is arbitrary.
A case strikingly illustrative of the legal anarchy un-
der whitsb -we live will be found in our Guildhall
Police Report. To understand the full force of
what fell from the Worthy Alderman who was the
expounder of the Law on the occasion, we must
premise, that on Tuesday night we received from
our Guildhall Reporter a very minute account of
the case, the omission of which in our columns
seems to 'have heated his bile, as the French say,
so very much. A person of respectable appear-
ance, of middle age (and, according to the Al-
, derman, a married man), was charged with inde-
centlF assaulting a little girl in service, between
twelve and thirteen years of age. A long de-
tail was given by the girl of liberties taken with her
by the person in question, at different times—of his
having been disguised like a working man, having a
paper cap, an old coat, and an apron twisted round
his waist—of her having gone out with her master
on a journey of, discovery to find her indefatigable
persecutor, and at last finding him looking in at the
window of Kean's printshop, when she looked into
his face that she might be sure of him, and then
went to her master, who was at some distance, and
said she was sure it was he; of her going borne and
telling her mistress, and Mrs. Bennet (a neighbour),
who, from the street-door, saw the person still looking
in at the print-shop—of several subsequent insults;
all very marvellous. On Saturday evening she was
miraculously saved, when the person was dragging
her up Dove-court, by a man coming out of a
house. But the great corpus delicti was on
Monday, shortly before dinner (which other wit-
nesses fixed at a quarteribefore one o'clock), when
the girl Was forced down an avenue, and into
the yard of a house ; the person bolting the yard-
door, and she unbolting it and escaping. This story,
which is almost as wonderful as that of Sir Edmund-
bury Godfrey, in the Popish Plot, was investigated
during six successive hours; and the evidence, be-
sides that of the girl, were, the master, who swore
that the girl had pointed out the prisoner at the
print-shop, as her assailant; and the mistress and a
neighbour, to whom he was likewise pointed out ;
. and a surgeon, who, on being called in to the girl,
found her in fits, and much convulsed. The pri-
soner declared that he was attending his duty as a
Reporter at a public meeting at the City of London.
Tavern on Monday, from twelve o'clock until
twenty minutes before two, so that he could not
possibly have committed an outrage in Fetter-lane at
one o'clock ; and he named several individuals, some
of whom were then present, as ready to establish
that fact; he protested that he never had worn
a working dress in his life; nor had he ever worn
the other dress sworn to by the girl ; and now that
he was in possession of the story, if he were re-
manded for a day or two, be would collect a bo.ly
of evidence to disprove every part of her statement.
Mr. Alderman Atkins, however, refused to hear
the prisoner's witnesses, " as he could pot try
SUch is an outline of the case, for not inserting
the case—he was a Magistrate, and not a Judge:*
which the Worthy Alderman is so indignant at
Newspapers. " He could not," he said, "permit the
Reporter, from a particular feeling, to screen an in:
dividual charged before him by withholding the case
from the newspapers. It was of importance to the
ends of justice that the facts should have met the
public eye; for the girl bad been twice rescued from
her assailant's importunities in Great New-street,
by some person unknown, who, if he had the feel-
ings of a man, would now come forward to fix or 'ea
clear , the accused. Some notice of every case ought,
to be sent to the newspapers; disadvantages would
sometimes occur, but that he was content to put
up with? Now, with respect to the insertion of all
cases in the newspapers, we have several observes
tions to make. In the first place it is impossible,
even if a newspaper were to publish nothing but
Police Reports, to give an account of all that passes
in the different Police Offices of the Metropolis every
day. But when Parliament is sitting, and all the Law
and Ecclesiastical Courts, to say nothing of the City
Parliament, and the various Meetings for converting
Jews, Heathens, and Catholics daily in this reli-
gious and eloquent metropolis, it is obvious that
were the pages of a newspaper as large as the side of
a house, they could not contain reports of whatever
occurs in all these places, and in all the Polite-,
offices into the bargain. A selection becomes, there-
fore, necessary, and that selection must *necessarily
be left to the discretion of the conductor of a news-
paper, who may, of course, err in the judg-
ment he forms as to insertion or rejection. But
in the second place, is Mr. Alderman Atkins aware
of the numberless prosecutions which newspapers
have had to encounter for the publication of
police reports, in consequence of the encourage-
ment held out by Lord Tenterden and Chief Justice
Best? It is true that the Juries ultimately set
their faces against the Judges, and that the design of
the latter to sap the Press, however cunningly de-
vised, has so far been frustrated; but is Mr. Alder-
man Atkins aware that two or three victories in an
English Court of Law are not without their alloy in
consequences which flow from them. Now, though
Mr. Alderman Atkins makes very light of Judges
and Juries, and while they insist that nothing should
be published, insists that every thing should be pub-
lished, he must excuse us for keeping the King's
Bench a little in view, as well as the Guildhall Police
Office " Disadvantages would sometimes occur
from publication, but that lie was content to put up
with." Kind and generous man ! But. though the
worthy Alderman
worthy Alderman was also content to commit this
tte.euel\d'idle)leicecontent to cir,
tpori sdoitateprt,ove withoutthe Ictielaurrigneg, evidencethweould t
ha t
prisoner have
he had
been equally content publicationwpittihocoautirono
an ex-parte statement ? The
will not. bear the evidence for the prisoner, but he
sti
ch ex paste
is indignant that an ex-parte case should not be
reported; because the
necessary te.
prove
ert
oimeigheitmrpgreo,cm;ele
necessary it is to be regardless or
ciliate a charge against nian of middle aga
calculated to injure very seriously that individual, on
athmatarrt married
publicationheavier ti
the
withoutaecusa
accusa-
tion the more
evidence "must injure, and
may ruin, the person ac-
cused, the chance of procuring evidence by the publi-
cationthe principle, perhaps,
is 3 justification of the previous punishment
without i
_t. The Worthy Alderman being one of
the Great Unpaid, may, we know, be content to .do
evidence, because, though a
or say what he pleases on the. Magisterial Bench ;
but we have no such privilege of impunity; and we
are much mistaken if either the prisoner or Lord
Tenterderi would be content with us. It is very
easy to make a charge against any man, and very
easy to ruin the reputation of that man, if a Magis.
trate will hear no evidence in his favour, and insert
a publication of the charge in order to procure evi-
dence for it. God forbid that we should say Mr.
Alderman Atkins has done wrong in committing a
tnan on the evidence of a girl of twelve or thirteen
years of age, who swore to a very strange and mar-
vellous story, and in refusing to hear evidence for the
prisoner. We know Magistrates have a glorious dis-
cretion. in this respect, that they may either hear evi-
dence for a prisoner or not, as they please—. that it is
proper
andlitiiiig they should have a large d'scretiou,
as what men would undertake for nothing the adminis-
tration of justice, without having it in their power
to discharge a man they like, or commit a man they
Dislike ? But still we submit that it may be very

hard on prisoners to have no opportunity of rebut-
ting the charge against them till the day of trial ;
and that it would be harder still to have ex-parte
charges, which they are not allowed to meet, pub-
lished with a view merely to elicit the evidence
which is awanting. Let us suppose one of the
. Bench of Bisinips•acetised of an unnatural offence
(we put, no doubt, a very improbable case, but we
put it because it is an extreme ease) ; that his Lord-
ship is not allowed to meet the charge by the pro-
duction of a body of evidence, but coolly told by
the Magistrate that he is not trying the case; and
that the Magistrate directs the report to be published
in the newspapers, in order to obtain the evidence
necessary to bring the offence home to his Lordship.
Let us suppose such a case—would it excite no sen-
sation ? We have no doubt the impartiality of Mr.
Ald. Atkins would induce him to treat the Bishop
• exactly as in a parallel case he wished the Reporter
to be treated ; hut what malignant sarcasms .would
not a well-feed Counsel deal out against our conduct
were we to act on his principles, and with what satis-
faction would not a Jury devour them ? But thither,
Mr. Alderman Atkins observed—" The suppression
of such a case as lie had alluded to could not be
countenanced, and it must now be made a question
whether tray Rtporters should be suji.'red to attend
Mat ,instiee Room." Why Daniel was nothing to
the worthy Alderman. Such, according to him, is
the advantage of reporting, that all eases ought to
be reported, got one ease is not reported; and he
is not content with punishing the individuals he
supposes to be in fault,. by preventing them from re-
porting, but determines that no Reporters should
he suffered to attend the Justice Room. Admirable
logic ! An evil has been suffered from the deduc-
tion from the amount of good rvhich would result
from the reporting all cases in the omission of one
ease, and he remedies that partial evil by destroying
all the good from reporting. Such is English justice,
surh are English judicial proceedings : the very fact
dements of judicial proceedings are yet to be settled
among us.—Morning chronicle.
It has never occurred before, to have to give a
debate (and that an interesting one too) in a leading
article : yet the circumstance happens non', It ap-
pears, that en Wednesday evening, on the motion
for bringing up the report on the pension to Mt.
Canning's family,—svhich, however, is but for the
life of one member,—a new opposition was started
to the grant by Lord Chandos, and an animated dis-
cussion arose, of which no one paper takes the least
notice. The public is, perhaps, hut little interested
in our arrangements. We shall, however, briefly e::-
plain what might otherwise seem like a conspiracy
" to curtail" Parliamentary diseusaiona " of their
'aie proportion ;" awl the truth is, that the Reporters,
retying too confidently on the ordinary practire of
the House to avoid important matter on a Wednes,
day evening, had universally retired. We therefore
here offer what we have been able to collect of the
&hate, reserving any observations which we may
have to make till the eonclusion :
On the motion for bringing up the report of the reso
lotions respecting the pension tar .the family of Mr

i arming
The Marquis of CI{ANDOS rose and stated, that not
been present on a former occasien, he availed him-
that opportunity of stating his decided objection to
rant. He begged that his abjection might not Le
red to rest upon economical principles, but as in.
to mark hie disapprobation of ,the prioeipler of Mr.
:az--piineiples which he considered . to bye been
~.:t;ve of the greatest calamities to this country.
T... ACLAND expressed his deep regret, after
ovurce4 on a former night, that any,Member
c:,pr;:s.;ecl, his opposition to the grant.
:TT stated his entire conctlrrene.e.in the
,th on public and private grounds. liewsidered
rountry or.-ed great obligations to Mr. Cann:ng
effort he bed made to unite men of all politics in
sire of the public. When he had lent his support
Canning, he considered the trump of office for
he highly precarious; but Mr. Canning being the
man who had undertaken, in circumstances of
::iigeney, to form an Administration under the stur
of the, Sovereign,. he (gir..l. Scarlett) felt it to be
to unite with ,his Government • and havingtelnfie
felt it would be lnFensistentif didsnet now =sup..
~L preient mbtion.
Lord I'ALMERSTON felt himself called upon, . ns a
number Of Mr. Canning's Government to reply to the oio-
t;ervations which had fallen froni the Noble Lord (Lord
Cliandos). Hi could not allow that statement to remain
uneuntradicted, ecceidering that every Governtneig of this
~-mintry would be entkleci both to general and pariiargen-
tary support in proportioa as it adhered to the principles
of Mr. Canning, whose name would he remembered and
7Pne,ated beg after his detractors had been consigned to

Sir T. LETHBRIDGE felt it his duty to state, that
however be had differed with Mr. Canning in ies letter
days, in consequence of his attempt to carry on the Cio.-
vernment by the moat unnatural alliance ever contracted
in polities, still he could not but recollect all Mr. Canning's
services, his unrivalled genius, and his public spirit. On
these grounds, lie gave his full and unqualified assent to
the present motion.
Mr. S. RICE rose fur the purpOse of seizing the last op-
portunity that was likely to arise to express his entire as-
sent to the proposed grant for the family of kir; Canning.
He considered the present likely to he the only opportu-
nity that would present itself,, for he could scarcely imagielg
possible that the opposition, so singular in its character,
could be continued; and he anticipated that the Bill in its
farther progress would meet the unanimous approval of the
House, as it undoubtedly would that of the country. , The
opposition to this Bill would have astonished him eta/ ,
where; but in the house of Commons, the theatre of Mr.
Canning's exertions, the field ie which his genius die.
played itself, and where, during the present Session, men
of all parties here felt the miserable blank made by his
loss---that in this House an objection should have been
made to a grant like this, was to him- a matter efl
astonishment, to use no stronger word. But he wished
to distinguish the two classes of whom tie opponents to
this measure consisted. The economists of meney might
perhaps think themselves warranted in refusing any grant,
however deserved, if they considered that the finances of,
the country would not afford such expenditure. In lids
he could not concur; for he could not admit that England
was in a position in which the reward of eminent services
must be refused. Let it not be said - that military glory
end death in action were the only events that could call
forth and justify national gratitude. Civil worth, if enui-
nent, belonged ta as high a class of exertions, and men'
,eight die, AS Mr. 6anning did, for their country, with-
out felling by the sword. But thew were economists of
another school, who objected. to this coke economists of
good feeling,—persous who wished to apPly retrenchment
to sympathy and gratitude, and-who were deeiroete.of re-
eturing all generous and honeurable impulse : witlethein
he would hold no conunenine, awl of them was the mino-
rity chiefly composed,—diseoutented agrieulturisto,. who
revenged themselves for the Corn Bill by their vete and
who marked their disapproval of Mn. Guanines liberal
policy by denying this pittance to his children. fie gold
have wished the vote to lie larger, but, assuming its_eboss
tatione to refer to the financinietete of the country, he ace
cepted the vote as a tribute anti ..WeekP°Wledgment to the
services and great name of Mr. CanaWK, and as
.such he
thought it one highly honourable to the Lieeserpnlellt to,
lave proposed it.
Mr. DAWSON regretted that any persona! Warruhu
should have found its way into tte debate, and conceived
the observations made by the Hon. Gee4l,42l.isn who pre-
ceded hint not calculated to produce the uuareS;raitif they
desired. Had he. to give a vote as a private metaikeer piJ
Parliament, he could, equally, as at present, have supported
the
proposition, feeling that
such e gram was deserved by
the length and eminence of the public services of Mr. Can-
ning. He, however, thought, that in the warmth 44"'-
btte expressions had fallen from his Xoble Friend (Lord ,
Palmerston) stronger than on reflection lese could have
to the Noble Ilerquis
wished to apply whose eloaeleter
and mind were too well known to the Rouse to requieeany
encomiuni on his part.
Lord PALMERSTON rose and stated,
that he regretted
that an occasion should have arisen that called on him for
ereesiona he hademployed, but that etee,,,s„ having
ins ex,
arisen, he did not regret what had fallen from him.
Mr. V. FITZGERALD explained his connexion with
Cenning's Government, although, in continuing in
- ',ice, he . made very considerable sacrifices of a personal
,ilro to his public4etl.
,rd MORPETIL —I merely rise to mention one cid
I,tance.whicli I omitted to state when I addressed the
-se yesterday evening, and, perhaps, I passed it over the
easily, as it was not immediately connected with the
before ea • it is, however, a debt of justice'due to in-
In net to pass it over entirely in silence. I have
ee to hel;eve that a rumour has gone abroad, from
,eirc? I cannot pretend to gimes, that the peerass,

conferred upon the widow of Mr. Canning was not so con-
ferred till after it had been solicited by her. If such an
impression does exist, from whatever quarter it may have
been derived, I can only say, that a more unfounded and
flagrant calumny never proceeded from the lips of man. I
am glad to take this public opportunity of stating, that
this mark of favour was bestowed at a time, and in a
manner, which reflected equal honour upon the Sovereign
who so feelingly conferred it, and the statesman whose me-
mory he thus greatly distinguished.
Mr. PLANTA expressed his feelings with respect to the
energy, skill, and Tabour with which Mr. Canning had ap-
plied himself to the discharge of his official duties, to
which his health had been sacrificed, and his life had ulti-
mately fallen a victim.
Sir T. FRENIANTLE rose and explained his convic-
tion that the observations made were wholly inapplicable to
his Noble Friend (Lord Chandos), whose conduct had been
guided solely by the most honourable public motives.
The resolution was then agreed to.
Our opinion of the pension to he granted to Mr.
Canning's next representative is apparent. After the
' zealous, however humble support which we afforded
to the father's ministry,—after the homage which
we always paid to his talents, and the approbation
which it was our duty to bestow on his unremitting
employment of them, it cannot he supposed that we
should wish the son to reap no advantage front
his descent. It appears, however, from the pre-
ceding sketch of the debate, that Ministers
are not so unanimous in their approbation of
Mr. Canning's policy, and more especially of
his foreign policy, as might be wished by
those who would have tile country to pursue
a consistent, uniform, and intelligible line of con-
duct. Lord Palmerston declared that an Ad-

ministration would only' be entitled to support, in
proportion as.it adhered to the principles of Mr.
Canning. Whilst he was uttering this sentiment,
we have heard that Mr. Dawson and Mr. Goulburn,
between whom he was placed, said, in an audible
tone of voice, that he vas going too far : and the
speech of the former, who is the Secretary and bro-
ther-in-law of Jr. Peel, would seem to justilv the
statement. We believe that an illustrious Duke,

though competent to any situation, little knew the
difficulties which he should have to sustain, chiefly,
perhaps, from the frivolous character of mind pos-
sessed by his colleagues, in that which he now holds.
And we will add further, we ourselves do not see
much to dread at present from Russian aggrandize-
ment. The conduct of that Power seems teioperate
and reasonable : but if Mr. Canning had continued
at the head of his Majesty's Government (Lord
Dudley retaining the Foreign Office), and the Duke
of Wellington had been pleased to impart to that
Ackinistration the splendour of his great name, by
resuming the situation of Commander-in-Chief, we
feel assured that the Russian army would never
have passed the Pruth ; and the Greeks would have
obtained a degree of independence, and an extent of
territory, such as their own arms would never have
achi,eyed, and adapted to the exigencies of the lA-
lance of power in Europe.—Times.

The following is a iihetch of what is supposed
will be done with the Catholic Question. It is be-
lieved, that Mr. Peel will not object to the proposed

•
conference with the Lords, though of course some
of the Ultras must be expected to do so. If the
4onfgrenee shall, as is anticipated, take place, some
Peer, not immediately connected with the Catholics,
possibly Lord Harrowby or Lord .3oderich, may
suggest some repeal or modification of the laws
which forbid any intercourse between the British
,government and the Pope—a prohibition which
prewaßts any arrangement or concordat, such as has
been made by the Pope with other Sovereigns—not
merely .Catholic ones, s France, Attstrii, and we
believe Bavaria, but Prottstant, as the Kings of
Prussia and of the Netherlands. It not under-
itoori that the Duke of Wellington entertains any
sentiments unfavourable to a pacific result ; on the
contrary, we imagine that his Grace must be,
more almost than any other individual, anxious
for the final settlement of -a snhjeet which has,
so fi.equently agitated the empire, and poker-
, rasse4 tiiOneasures of Administration. Every one
who understand* Aiutputslici interests, or, who wishes
to promote them, must. r49420-ItOie prospect of any
course being pursued which hr,s g. Aimee of leading
to the tranquillization of Irish party. We trust,
howeigr, whatever may be the purpose of his Ma-
jesty's Ministers, they Will take care to prevent any
intrusion upon their cquhcils by the members of the
Irish priesthood. It is not thii first time ,that these
Rev. persons have assumed a knowlecig of the
Popish religion superior to that of the Holy Father
and his conclave; It is not the first time that a veto
upon Catholic Bishops was granted to his Majesty
by the Court of Rome, and rgfiisf A. by, the Irish
priests. If, therefore, there be a conciiiatory project
In goapmplation, we would recommend that the
Popish hiergehy of Ireland shall be treaty as sob-
jeetc, not
as cti.as;,Vri with the Imperial Govern-
ment of Great Britain; obr;e;:wjfe, we prophecy that
the whole business will be embioihrl, end all the
difficulties from which we strive to escape re-opened.

Whatever opinions men may entertain upon the
,
Catholic Question, there must he, wit should
giiw, pyle wish.eomtnott to them all—that it shold
be hrouglit a speedy conclusion. During the
recent discussion we gaye.•it as our opinion, that, as
far as the British public is conzgrned, Catholic Eman-
cipation never will, be ceded withoia Op previous
possession of such securities as may meet the pre-
ju dices, right or. wrong, whiChCh exist to so great an
extent against the measure in this country; and we
are-the more fortified in this opipi,cin from the fact
that it was in this way that the Catholics first pre-
sented •elaims to Parliament; nor was it till
grown over•eon64,ent .by the prospect of success,
they withdrew their eve; of the Veto, &c., and
converted a qualified request ixo an uncondi-
tional demand. But if the Catflone i:.ontintte
to press the 4. claims, year after year, in a shape
in which they a a will be granted, that is
no reason why Government ;hould not take the
cutter tip ; and, after deliberation, plate the ques-
tion an sach a. footing as would satisfy all rea.
satiable Protest its? and such as ought to satisfy all
reasonable Catholics. Why should not, for in-
stance, the Duke of Wallington Auld Mr. Peel, in ,
conjunction with the Bench of flisboix;, mstruct
such a law, as may by them be thought necessary to
giiard the interests of the Church and State on the
admission of Catholics into office and into Parlia-
ment, includii.-f probably such an alteration in the
Coronation Oath, and the oaths to be taken on
admission to office, as a just view of the Tatter may
'Pint out as necessary ? These and such other safe-
niiisigt may be thought necessary (including pro-
.acillY_ such an 4ttence in the nomination of Cathy-
Ivierßinmsehnotpss) abseiitsigeel'ier4beotiedlltytit:tahTar)P,rtohteesctaantthoGlicos-
va;n4lethve
,mtearms
and collectively might be left, te tape
efitcs
so laid down, or reject
them,
think proper. The terms
should be so, re.4l._
ground as- possible, for eitviii
Parliamen shoo I
---malAe as to leave as little
the aovernment and 44.-A? being so,
f,411r oaths,
the ,Catii4i,cs?
,” We have consideredta 661
1;9
claims with ever/ View to
modified oursatisfying themyour
&c. as; to
we have so
render them, we trust, palata4le to
)ou and it
. pon
the preserf-,b-r4 conditions, there is why you have so
long asked for. At 4py rate, remember this is all
that can be done for you ; übd, 44.ving prescribed a
'definite dim f: to our concessions, there 0.4,at tjo
an
end to your demand;." we will only add, that in
our view of.-thee matter, ail idea of paying the
tholic priesthood a farthing out of the revenue is
With wing the Catholic
altogether excluded.
priesthood we would have nothing to do. It is
quite sufficient for the country to maintain the Clergy
of its own Establishment. Were we to consent to
pay the Catholic Clergy, we might next be called
upon to.pay the Anabaptists,the Muggletonians, the
Southeptians, the Jumpers, and the numberless other
sects into which the religious world is'divided. No,
. the Stateprovides.one set of Clergy, and pays for
one form of religion ; every man is at liberty to con-
, form to it or not, but, if he chooses to have a reli-

gion of his own, it must be at his own expellee, and
can neither in justice nor reason be made a charge
upon the State.—Morning Herald.
We mentioned yesterday some plans for intro-
ducing an ample and cheap supply of wholesome
water into the metropolis, and we stated that Go-
vernment ought to grant a small Commission to
examine•the different plans, to receive others, and to
use means for ascertaining their practicability and
the expense of carrying them into execution. Since
we wrote that article there has been put into our
hands a plan by Mr. Martin, the celebrated artist,
which seems to combine all that is required. It is
quite practicable, by no means expensive, and it may
not only without difficulty, but with the most per-
fect facility, be made to contribute as much to the
beauty as to the benefit of the Metropolis. Mr.
Martin very justly remarks, that to bring
a 'Supply. from Teddington would not only be
extremely expensive, on account of the na-
ture of the country through which it must be
brought, but from the lowness of the level, engines
of great power would be required for its distribution.
He, therefore, proposes to bring his supply from a
branch of the Coln, or rather from the Coln itself,
just above the point where it is crossed by the Pad-
dington Canal. After passing through Uxbridge
Common and Furtherfield, it would join the line of
the Paddington Canal at the south side of Missen-
denhill, and travel nearly parallel to the canal until
it disembogued in a reservoir at Paddington. The
elevation of the reservoir would be 80 feet above the
Thames at high water, so that the water could be
distributed all over the city without the use of any
engine, and very small one would supply.
Paddington, and part of Marylebone, the rise re-
quired being very inconsiderable. Thus far Mr.
Martin appears in the character of a bold pro.-
jeetot, and a skilful engineer; but, as Dr.
Johnson remarks of Cowley, that whatever
thoughts passed through 'his mind were converted
into poetry, so, whatever plans pass through the
mind of Mr. Martin, are rendered subservient to the
promotion of his favourite study, and issue forth in
those beautiful and original shapes which none but
the painter of " Belshazzar's Feast" can imagine or
depict. Not content with supplying the metropolis
with good water, Mr. Martin would turn even the
superfluity to account. In the lithographic map
which accompanies his plan, and in which he has
given five of the most delicious little sketches that
can be conceived, he has shewn very clearly how
this may be done. The waste water would, in the
first place, be conveyed over a dam of considerable
height into a public bath, a little to the westward
of the proposed reservoir, capable of accommo-
dating at least a thousand bathers, without incon-
venience. It would pass by, an underground
pipe •to the south side of Great Junction-street,
and form a piece of ornamental water in front of a
range of houses running from the end of Oxford-
street to Great Junction-street, of which the map
contains a sketch. Passing next under the Uxbridge-
road, it would fall into the Serpentine in Kensington-
gardens, converting it from a mantling and muddy
pool into a running stream. Front the end •of the
Serpentine it would be continued down to Hyde-
park-corner, where it would he conveyed across the
road into his Majesty's gardens, and after watering
and beautifying them, it would cross Constitution-
hill into the Green-park, which it would at once
drain and ornament. From the Green-park it•
would pass into the piece of water in St. James's-
park,and finally escape to the Thames at Whiteha&
stairs. There are some other less important points,
to which it is unnecessary at present to advert.
Such is Mr. Martin's plan ;, certainly the most sci-
entific as well as the most attractive that has yet
been submitted to the public. In no case has Mr.
Martin, while aiming at utility, lost sight of orna-
ment, nor- his de;,:irci of ornament has he sacrificed
utility; and so skilfully has he combined the utile
and the dulee, that it would be difficult to say whe-
ther picturesque beauty or practical convenience has
been most his study.—Ne- Times.

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POLICE INTLLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.—Two_ men;,named John .Nelson and
John Lairance, were brought before Mr. Alderman
ATKINS yesterday, -charged with intending to commit felony
in the hope pf if ff. Goodwin, a licensed vietgaller, in
Shoe-lane.

It appeared that Mr. Goodwin, in going over his pre-
mises about 12 o'clock the night before, to see that all was
safe, discovered that the. staple of a door in the passage,
commgnicating with the yard, had been wrenched off, so
as to secure an entrance into the juntse In that dirgction
during the night time, and on searching the yard he dis-
, covered the prisoners, secreted behind some wood. 1-1 e
called in the watchmen, and had them secured. A candle
was found in Lawrance's hat, and on.the spot where they
had secreted themselves a screw-drivers a phosphorus-box,
and an iron hammer, of the dent iption technically called
a printer's sheep's foot, and . which, from the impression
on the plaster-wall, had been used in forcing out the staple.
Nelson had formerly been in Mr. Goodwin's employ, while
he 'a in business as a shoemaker, the prisoner being his
"-trotter,' or errand-marts. In the day time the pas-
:sage to the yard remains open, and the 'prisoners might
have secreted themselves.

The ALDERMAN could not make up his mind ‘vhetber
he would commit them as rogues and vagabonds for being
found in a hope with iuteht to steal, or as felons for steal-
ing an old chair which they hati.remoye4 from tha cellar,
or for the capital offence of committing burglary, and they
were therefore remanded until the next day.
Some duplicates, relating to a coat, shirt, waistcoats, &c.
fotiud on.. them,: some of the pledges being made in

the name of i-.:fgg Tit9ps, “t Somers' Town.
In the course of the day, 4fr. 4.l4efolap 4TF-pfs ad-
verted to the non.publication of any account of a case Wll ie h
was heard before him on. Tuesday, where a middle-aged
person, named Milan, a married . man, was accused of
harassing a zier,7.744gi,1, only 13 years of age, for several
days, to frighten,. entrap, 'or fora laer '446 it cotapiiane
with his Lustful desire.

Addressing our reporter, he said he had received a very
strong letter, complaining-of the suppression of the facts
of this ca;,. /le remembered an instance where that re-
porter had, by a slight notice .f ark eiarnination, caused
him to receive information from various parts of the coon-
try,.. and even from Ireland, relative to the robbery, and
had led to the apprehension of the principal thief at
Gravesend, in consequence of an anonymous letter received
from thence. These reports he considered favours; but
still be could not al/ow the reporter to distrilinte evert his
favours with gross partiality. He could not permit him,
from a particular feeling, to screen. an individual charged
before 14in, by withholding the case from the newspapers.
It was of importance to the gp4p 9f juoiFe that the 'facts
should have met the public eye, for the girl had been twice
rescued from her assailant's importunities in Great New-
street, by some person unknown, who, if he had the feelings
.of a man, would now come forward to fix or to clear the ac-
cused, Some notice of every case ought to be sent to the
newspapers. C4isajyaptsges would sometimes occur, but
that he was content to put up with. 'here might be some
difficulty in drawing the line between what might be pub-
lished with advantage and what might not, but if the
re-
porter assumed a discretion to suppress what he pleased,
he set himself up for a judge to try the cases. The sup-
pressidri of atii;h a va:;.;. as he had alluded to, could not be
countenanced, and roust how he mane a questiop
whether any reporters should be stiffered to attend that
justice-room. If be (the magistrate) had made a slip, he
would have been " shown up" (he believed that was the
fashianaiii,: phrase) in the newspapers next morning beyond
all doubt.

Our reporter begged in justification of himself to ex-
plain that he had furnished ' a full report of the case, with
the name of the defendant, to four of the newspapers;
another reporter said the length of the parliamentary
debates had excluded the MSC apd thiPi igggestfq that
the editors had felt they could' not fultblish sltch details
tv.ithout rendering the newspapers 'unqt Logo into the hands
9f a family.

Sir JOHN PER RINg gays prefilt to onr reporter's state-
ment, and mentioned to Mr. Alderman At4ins that lie had
heard before that it depended upon the editor, and not
alone upon the reporter, whether such matters found their
way to the public.
Mr. Alderman ATKINS intimated, that the consequence
of the attempt to screen this individual would probably be,
that he would rioW be prosecuted at the expence of the
corporation, in order that there might not be a failure of
justice. In conclusion, he alluded in a low tone to another
topic. We understood him to say; that a misrepresenta-
tion of what he had stated in the court of Aldermen had
been published in a newspaper (the Times), and when he
called for a ri,traction, he was desired to send his ow, vet-

Ision of what lie had said, and, by way, of a knock-down
blow, was told his letter was ungrammatical. When he
talked to his brother Aldermen about prosecuting the
paper, he was told not to regard it, for no one believed the
statement in question.
BOW-STREET.—The Rev. Mr. Hassbury, a Clergy-
man of the Established Church, residing in Lincolnshire,
was yesterday brought before Sir R. Bin/cis:, charged by
Mr. Allenby, the proprietor of the British Coffee-house,
Cockspur-street, with presenting a brace of loaded pistols
and threatening the life of one of the waiters employed in
the Coffee-room of the above establishment.
On 'Wednesday night the Rev. defendant and some gen-
tlemen were making merry in the. Coffee-room, when a
dispute arose between them, in consequence, it is said,
of a difference of opiriion respecting a great political ques-
tion, to which public attention is at present directed.
The Rev. defendant being somewhat overcharged with
high church zeal and claret, became so intemperate, that
there soon arose a general cry of " Turn him out !" and
some c f the gentlemen were actually proceeding to expel
him, vi et armia, when a waiter interfered, and endea-
voured to lead him quietly to bed, the Rev. Gentleman
having set up at " The British " during his sojourn in
town. The defendant, however, mistaking the motives
of the waiter, or not being in a state exactly to under-
stand them, drew forth a brace of pistols from his pockets,
and swore he would lodge the contents in the bead of the
luckless waiter if he dared to lay a hand upon him. A
general row was the' consequence, and the watch being
called in, the Rev. Gentleman, with the deadly weapons,
was consigned to the charge of the nightly guardians,
and placed in safe keeping in St. Martin's watch-house;
previously to which, however, Mr. Allen's), took the pre-
caution of securing the defendant's watch and money, in-
cluding a packet containing 5001. The Rev. Gentleman,
we believe, was bailed out in the course of the night, but
the pistols were detained until the case should be disposed
of by the magistraie in the morning.
Sir R. BIRNIE called upon the defendant to explain
his conduct, and asked him why he carried loaded pistols
about him ?---The Rev. defendant conceived in so doing he
was perfectly justified, as the laws of England allowed every
man the means of defending himself.
The Msarsaltant replied that no man was allowed to
carry arms concealed upon his person, and to do so was a
clear breach of the law. He then asked Mr. Allenby if
he intended to proceed against the defendant.
Mr. Allenby replied, that all he wanted was to have the
prisoner cautioned how he presented fire-arms at unarmed
persons. He wished also to obtain payment of a bill, with
which he had furnished the defendant, for board, wine, lodg-
ing, !cc:, since his arrival in town.

The MAotsTRATE was of opinion that Mt. Allenby might
be under no uneasiness respecting the payment of the bill in
question.

Orders were then given to Ford, the gaoler, to unload the
pistols, both of which were fully charged, primed, and
cocked.

Sir R. BIRNIE expressed his determination to detain the
pistols; but told the defendant that he was at liberty to de-
part. We believe, however, that on a subsequent applica-
tion the pistols were restored to the defendant.
Caroline Dunn, a black woman, aged about 30, was
charged by a clerk of Messrs. Cox and Greenwood, the
army agents at Charing-cross, with creating a disturbance
at their office. The defendant was also charged with
furiously assaulting a constable, who 14143 called in to quiet
her.
The clerk of Messrs. Cox and Greenwood stated that the
defe❑dant was frequently in the habit of making a disturb-
ance at the office, owing to some imaginary claim to a
legacy which she said was left to her by the will of the
late Lieut.-Colonel Arthur Gore,• who, some years ago,
was killed in I❑dia. Messrs. Cox and Greenwood, al-
though their connexion with Colonel Gore had ceased with
his death, had used every means to ascertain how far the
defendant's claim was rightly founded, but they could ((ever
satisfactorily learn whether or not Lient.Xol. Gore had
made a will previous to his decease. They understood,
however, that he had (lied insolvent.
The defendant vehemently declared, that such could not
haVe been the case, as the Colonel was a man of property pre-
vious to his departure for India. She then gave a rapid
account of the manner in which 'she became acquainted
with the deceased Colonel.

The clerk of Messrs. Cox and Greenwood from the de-
fendant's manner, judged that she must be subject to occa-
sional fits of insanity. Her conduct at the office on several
occasions fully warranted that conclusion.

The MAQISTRATE said, that under these circumstances
he should feel it his duty to order, her to find bail'to prevent
a repetition of her violence, and he directed that the constable
whom she had assaulted, should he anoint' in order to •pro-'--
cure his evidence,
The defendant was ...accordingly locked ups, to which
proceeding she seemed perfectly indifferent.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--Jistnes Harding, a
young man in the service of Mr. Harper, glover and
silk mercer,- iii Berners-street, Oxford-street, Was brought
before F. A. Rot, Esq., the sitting Magistrate, by Craig,
the officer, charged with robbing his employer.
A pawnbroker produced the handkerchiefs, and recog-
nized 'the prisoner as the person who p!edged thein ; and
Mr. Harper having identi6ed the property as having been
stolen from him, the prisoner was fully committed for trial.
A .yogng man named Ryan,! a tailor, by trade, was
brought to the office on the following charge : •
It appeared,' by the statement of a young female of re-
spectable appearance, that a few evenings ago, about dusk,
she was passing:through Regent-street, and thought she
PerePiVecl some peraon's hand touch her back, when,. on
turning round, she observed the prisoner Close behind her ;
but as she supposed the thing was done accidentally, she
took no further notice, but stopped, and !suffered the pri-
soner to pass on. He had not, however, gone many yards,
when she obseryed hip' lay hold.of the dresses of two young
ladies who were walking on before him, and evidently cut
the clothes with some sharp instrument. She then turned
round to examine her own dress, and discovered that that I
had also been cut ; upon which she instantly ral4 up and
seized the prisoner, calking out, at the same time, that he had
qit the other two ladies" dresses, who then stopped, and
found that such was the fact. A crowd was immediately col-
lected, and the prisoner struggled hard to get away, but a
gentleman who observed him cautieuslyfling something down
the area of a house, assisted, and the prisoner was in 'the end
secured. On examining the area, it was found that what
the prisoner Inid !h0.W44 away was a pair of tailor's shears,
with whiclt hg 1.144 beet), practising his mischievous tricks.
The three females whole clothes had been thus wantonly
destroyed, produced the injured 'dresses, end each set a
certain value upon the amonnt of damage done to her
gas-meat; arld in 4lefa4l; of paying these sums, in which
he was Onvicted under the -act against wilful injury to
property, the prisoner Was committed to the House of
Correction, upon one case for two months, and on each of
the other two for 14. days ; one term of the imprisonment
to commence only at the expiration of the preceding,
4TT qN-qAttpE.INT...-I(cAteiTiay a' kir. diehard
Morgan, a Very
,respectable individual, was brought up to
this office under a warrant, to answer before the Sitting
Magistrate, Mr. Sergeant Sztrow, to a charge .of assault
preferred against him by Jones, the toll-collector, at Pen-
tonville.

.Jones stated, that on Fri* last the defepdant having
passed pn horseback through the toll-gate without produc-
ing his ticket or calling the number of it, he called after
him a distaw pf soPie Yarcle, and 'wish* hold of the bridle
stopped the horse till he' should produce his ticket. The
defendant, with much reluctance' did at length produce it,
but at the same moment stuck him a severe blow with a
stick which,he held in hie hand. •

Several gentlemen came forward and stated, 1114 the
toll-collector had. used the most insOtiag and outrageous
laritiafie Jowaisls qfendant.
Mr. Sergeant SELLON (to thetlefendant)—Upon your
oath did you or did you not,: at the same instant that you
produced the ticket with one hand, strike the complainant
with the other ? Mr. Morgan--I did, certainly ; fnit.was
obliged to do so for my own safety.
Mr. Sergeant SF.r.Lort..-But a yuq,n 4avipg (lone so,
seemtp haye acted With too Much 'rashness and precipita-
ti~n,producing your ticket and striking at the same iden-
tical moment; and as the complainant, acting under a legal
sanction, had a right to stop your progress and demand the
production of your ticket,—though, indeed, I do not ap-
trove of the Manner in which ,he has. done se,-;—you shall
ay a penalty of 10s. with the
cpsts.

The country around 'tis wears the most iov-
ting and OleMng aspect i and ill which direction soever
eyP glances, 601 verdure and feitility, the gladdening
ritroot of plenty and abuudance lq due season, present
theingel"''• The yoting wheats have recovered from that
sickly Which they assumed from the effects of the con-
p4aued wetness of the earlier period of the spring, and now
show vigorous
most districts, above ground, and reported to be going no
and healthy ; the Lent grain is also, in
favourably. The prospect of a heavy crop of grass was
never more flattering, and an early and proliflc hay harvest
„lay justly be anticipated. Tipports vary as to the likeli-
hood of a crop of cider and perry fruit ; in some places the
isspokiknedniy and iok
of as unpromising,oitig.wei. Of wall-fruit, we
whilst in others it is
'
thatto be
it suffered considerably by the cold rains which
the critical season of its blossoming, and it is con-
sidered
that it will be but .a very partial crop.—Bath
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