The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1844.

markable degree, and holding out a I righter promise
of general good to the community than any scheme
of social and political reform that we have ever read
or heard of. Of course the Conservative Herald can-
not see the matter in this light, and, accordingly, our
Contemporary taunts " Young England " with being
fantastic and unintelligible in its views. " What the
principles of this party are," he observes, " or whence
their designation as a body, we are unable to say ;
and we doubt very much if they could themselves
explain." This taunt comes with exquisite propriety
from a journal that advocates Conservatism in the
most accommodating and latitudinarian sense of
the term. If the principles of "Young England"
be enigmatical, will the Herald condescend
to inform us what is the character of those
maintained by the majority of Members who adorn
the back seats of the Treasury bench by their presence
—who to-day vote that black is white, and to-morrow
that white is black—who defend the harshest provi-
sions of the New Poor-law on the score of humanity
—and propose to ameliorate the social and moral con-
dition of the labouring classes by continuing their sup-
port to the Whig system of union workhouses ? It would
puzzle our Contemporary, we suspect, to define exactly
the principles of these accommodating Members, whose
policy he honours with his approbation ; and yet, like
Parson THWACKUM, he presumes " to saddle Young
England with a judgment," because in the mysterious
character of her principles she approximates too closely
to his own favourite creed of Conservatism ! People
who live in glass-houses should never fling stones !

From our report, published last week, of the pro-
ceedings at a sessions of the Middlesex Magistrates
(assembled for the purpose of determining upon appli-
cations for licenses under the statutes regulating the
grant, renewal, or refusal of the same, to licensedvictual-
lers and others, the owners or lessees of houses, &c., de-
dicated to purposes of public amusement), it will be
seen that their Worships—some of them, we mean—
are actuated, at these hearings, by very extraordinary
notions as to the merits, moral or logical, of the cases
submitted to them. The general policy of the law,
and the express design of the Act of GEORGE 11.,
obviously are to consult, to the greatest practicable
extent, the interests of public morality and order, in
investing a particular body of men with powers of
control so stringent—not to say invidious—over the
property, actions, and fortunes of a large class of the
community. The general principle, therefore, which
both the theory and the practice of this branch of
domestic legislation recognise is—that the grant, the
renewal, or the refusal, shall be determined by the
certified character of the applicants ; or the proof of
their good conduct and deportment during the term
of their previous license ; or, the opinion of the
Bench, in those instances where the application is
made for the first time, or for an original license, as to
the tendencies of the amusements sought to be
authorised under it, to produce good or evil conse-
quences in the district. Now, we do not at all pur-
pose to discuss the soundness of this principle ; or
even to inquire into the expediency of confiding its
application to the hands which at present administer
it. But it is evident that the power of granting, or
withholding, or confirming such licenses, is a very im-
portant one. In all systems of State policy, that is
an important element which regards the amusements
of the people ; their provision being of primary, their
control of secondary—importance. In any scheme
of mere municipal regulations, this character of
importance is even more tangible and evident.
All modern and all ancient history are full of
examples that attest this truth. Could the two co-
lour factions of " Blue" and "Green" which distracted
the Byzantine empire have been kept in good humour
by timely concessions, to the wishes of one, and the
demands of the other, a cabal which, from the original
centre of its production—the theatre—diffused its
baneful influences to the furthest limits of the Eastern
empire, and greatly precipitated its destruction, might
have been averted, and the downfal it entailed upon
the throne of CONSTANTINE thereby postponed for a
long course of years. The recent tumultuous era of
the French Revolution was not wanting in instances
to show how an explosion of public feeling, awakened
by incidents occurring at some theatrical representa-
tion, may be productive of consequences the most ex-
tensive and eventful. Is there anything in the density
of the population cooped up within the limits of Lon-
don and Westminster and the metropolitan suburbs,
at the present day (in a manner not paralleled within
the sphere of European States or civilisation)—is
there anything in this case of modern London to take

it out of the operation of similar influences, if, by injudi-
cious management, their bad activity should ever be
awakened among us ? This is a question not un-
worthy of grave consideration. There are few
matters, to any arbitrary or vexatious intermeddling
with which—men, individually, or in their social rela-
tions—are more sensitively alive, than their ordinary
amusements. It is, indeed, to be regretted that they
are so prone to sacrifice interests and objects of a
much higher and ordinary character to the cause of
those more trivial, but by no means less interesting
occupations. Holding these views upon this curious
subject, we should like to be instructed upon the real
meaning or motives of the course which was taken at
the Middlesex Sessions in question, by Mr. GIBBONS,
one of the licensing magistrates, under the following
circumstances.

The landlord of a long-established and remarkably
well-conducted house applied to have it licensed, in
the usual manner, for private concerts, and, we be-
lieve, dances. Mr. GIBBONS complimented the appli-
cant on the excellent reputation of his establishment
(always accepted as the strongest possible plea of
qualification for such an indulgence). He said that
he himself had known the house for sixty years ; that
it had been so well managed, and had prospered so
well, he could not believe the landlord "needed" any
such license, and he, for one, therefore, would re-
fuse it. With the exception of Mr. FRESIIFIELD, the
other magistrates concurred in this view, and the
license was refused ! Mr. FBESIIFIELD, contra,
argued, with all the sagacity and good sense and
feeling which are habitual to him, that the applicant
had laid the best possible case for his application, and
that the worthy magistrate had supported it by a
statement which supplied the strongest argument to
confirm and maintain it. But Mr. FRESBFIELD
could adduce no higher authority for his opinion than
common sense and common law. Mr. Giunoris had
a sort of magisterial quasi wisdom, and a species of
hereditary prestige as a sessions SoLor; in his favour.
The publican was ousted of his appeal. Now, the
deductions we arrive at from this decision, though
strictly consequential, are remarkable. A long course
of good repute in past years, and unimpeachable
conduct in its present management, disqualify a
house for a license, enjoyed, probably, by the very
next inn in the same street. Mr. GIBBONS is not
hardy enough to propose to turn back the tide of
popular taste, and reclaim the people from the mad-
ness of " music for the million." He is not quite so
Quixotic as to attempt to prescribe the Polka, and de-
nounce dancing. He merely undertakes to know better
than the applicant, himself, for a license to afford these
diversions in his house, whether he is, or is not, in
such a condition as to need the resort to this mode of
supplementing the receipts of his business. Mr. Gin-
BONS admits everything in favour of the publican, and,
therefore—determines against him ! It follows, that
had the man enjoyed the equivocal reputation attaching
to some of the "leasehold property" tenants of the
Dean and Chapter of Westminster, in the Almonry
—had his establishment, which enjoys this sixty
years' character of respectability, acquired the noto-
riety of some of the saloons in the vicinity of the
Theatres Royal ;—had only a brother magistrate or
two of Mr. GIBBONS got up to bear a frowning wit-
ness against the applicant himself as one of those
licentious-licensed victuallers" who had been too
frequently reported upon to him by the police of the
vicinity ; in any such case the poor man would have
obtained his license ! Verily, this may be sessions
practice ; but it is neither law nor reason, common
equity, nor common propriety. Altogether, the case
is one of those which will greatly strengthen the
growing demand to have the "Licensing Jurisdic-
tion" transferred to some more competent tribunal
than that which wields it at present.

The late adjudications of the lines of railway from
Orleans to Bordeaux and Vierzon continue to be dis-
cussed by the entire French press. For the information
of our readers we publish elsewhere some significant
extracts from the papers, both Ministerial and Oppo-
sition. It appears that the boldness of the tender of
MAcKENztE's Company for the Bordeaux line has
astonished not only the Ciovernment, but the financiers,

and even the press itself. Already there are
signs of serious opposition, stimulated, no doubt, by
its disappointed rivals, to the confirmation of the pro-
visional adjudication in its favour accorded on the 9th
instant. The public here will be surprised to learn
that this adjudication is so far purely formal.
It must successively pass `through the searching
scrutiny of the Council d'Etat before it can receive
the confirmation of an ordonnance royale. If we may
judge from the tone of the press and the late circular
addressed to the agens de change by their syndic, the
fate of this Company is already determined. It is
not destined to retain the crown it has won with
much more boldness, perhaps, than discretion, from
the insatiable grasp of an overweening capitalist.
The Government papers find in the terms accepted
by MACKENZIE'S Company (a rebate of 14 years
upon the Government minimum) but a small
security for the completion of the contract ; and
are afraid, as has frequently happened on other
occasions, that the aid of the State will have to be
invoked when the financial difficulties of the Com-
pany will have made manifest the insufficiency of the
terms they have accepted. The reclamations of the
Company D'ANTIIOUARD before the Council d'Etat so
unceremoniously excluded from the competition, will,
no doubt, form the ground work for the reversal of the
adjudication, so little expected by the Government
and the Chambers, so little desired by the capitalists
and speculators, and so powerlessly defended by its
single supporter amongst the press. Be the result
as it may, amidst these uncertain new elements, we
think the eager unimformed buyer would act wisely
in requiring from the seller a guarantee for the final
constitution of the several companies, before pur-
chasing at a premium, a title which must always be,
if disputed, doubtful until after the publication of
the ordonnance royale.

By the Levant mail, which arrived at Marseilles on
the 11th instant, we have accounts from Constanti-
nople to September 27, Alexandria 26th, Athens 29th,
and Malta October 5. The PACHA was still at Cairo,
and he had been followed thither by Colonel BAR-
RETT, M. BONNE, of the London Post-office, M.
THURBUM, and others interested in the negotiations
now going on with our Government, relative to the
speedy transmission of the India mails through
Egypt.
Accounts from Constantinople of the 27th ult.,
state that letters had been received from Pr. WooLr,
dated Bokhara, July 25, announcing that he had re-
gained his liberty, and was to set out on his return in
a few days. 'We have intelligence from Dr. WOOLF,
however, to the Ist of August, when be considered
his life in the utmost danger.

We have intelligence from Madrid to the 10th of
October, on which day the QUEEN prcceeded in state
to the Senate-house, and opened the Corbes with a
speech from the throne. The docuneent is given in
another part of the paper. Our readers, like our-
selves, will be puzzled what to make of the phrases,
" project of constitutional reform," and " endow the
nation with organic laws," for no insight whatever is
afforded by the speech to the proposed changes.
Judging, however, from the character of NARVAEZ
and his colleagues, the well-known dispositions of the
QUEEN-MOTHER, and the rising influence of the
Church, it may be taken for granted that the
reforms will all be in the wrong ilirection. But the
Constitution of Spain now exciters the least possible
interest. The great body of the nation have shown
themselves incapable of appreciating the blessings of
liberty ; their representatives wasted their time in
angry and factious harangues, without any object but
party and self-interest ; some of their best statesmen
(if we may use the term in reference to such a people)
have sunk into oblivion. ESP.I.RTERO, the only Con-
stitutional ruler that Spain ever, enjoyed, was rejected
almost by universal consent, emd is now an exile in
the English capital. The other parts of the speech
are more intelligible, though they abound only in
promises. Economy is to bQ practised, the army is
to be diminished, " when the authority of the laws
becomes strengthened by nsteans of order in the ad-
ministration, and the vigour of the civil authority" (a
long prospect) ; and every 'exertion is to be made to
place the navy on a footin g suitable to the power of
the country and the extent, of her colonies. No allu-
sion is made to the Church or to Church property.
The papers of the 9th cotntain no news. On that day
the Three per Cents. werei done at 26 15-16 for cash,
and 271 at 60 days; the Five per Cents. at 20 3-16
cash, and 20f at 60 dazs. The following day was
observed as a holiday.

The visit of Louis PHILIPPE to England still
continues the chief topic of interest in the Paris
papers. Certain of tiihe Opposition journals con-
tinue their rude and. senseless comments on the
proceedings of which we have given sufficient spe-
cimens. One of them,, the Commerce, however, forms
an honourable except ion ; and we, therefore, have
great pleasure in que.ting the following just remarks
respecting the part le hich the Duke of WELLINGTON
took in the public ceremonies during the KING'S
sojeurn at Windsor.. Before giving the extract, vs e
may remark, that -we place no confidence in the
statement that the Duke of WELLINGTON wore a
sword which had formerly belonged to NAPOLEON.
We saw the stateurent only in one paper, and the
Duke who, all will admit, possesses some sense of
propriety, wouldt be the last man to offend a
brave people by such a wanton and unne-
cessary act of rudeness. " Some journals," says
the Commerce, " have appeared to regard the
presence of the Duke of WELLINGTON at the fetes
given by Quue.n VICTORIA to the KING of the
FRENCH as unbecoming. We do not see it in this
light. 'When -peace is re-established between two
countries, after even the most sanguinary war, the
warriors of Vtie two nations may join hands—the
more efficiently they have performed their duties the
more do they merit the esteem of their former
enemies. None should be excepted on either side,
save those chiefs who have been guilty of maltreating
prisoners of -war, or those who, during an invasion,
have encour aged a laxity of discipline in their sol-
diers, and committed vexations on the inhabitants
of the invreled country, which were not rendered
necessary by the laws of war, or which
those laws condemn under all circumstances.
Now, we dto not hesitate to affirm, that the Duke of
WELLING robi has no reason to blush for his conduct
during his command either in Spain or in France.
Perhaps 'his care for the well-being of the French
prisoners of war was deficient in generosity : but,
personally, he never issued any orders that they
should be maltreated or insulted. As to the discip-
line of 'his troops, we know that he maintained it with
the greatest attention, not only as a matter of pru-
dence in a General, but as being consistent with hi,
character as a man. We regard him, therefore, as an
honourable enemy ; and whatever rank he may have
held in the armies of the coalition, we see no
reason on that account to bear him hatred.
If w.e do not, however, consider the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON out of place in the cortege which surrounded
Louis PHILIPPE at Portsmouth, and at Windsor, we
think that at the reception of the new Knight of the
Garter he was guilty of an act of bad taste. Accord-
ing to the report of the English journals he wore a
sword that had once belonged to NAPOLEON. Who
can have authorised him to wear this sword ? It is
not a trophy gained in battle. That which the great
captain wielded for twenty years he carried with
him to St. Helena, and he left it a legacy to
France. It is to repose upon his tomb
It must be then one of those mere dress-swords, of
which the EMPEROR might have had hundreds, which
the BOURBONS found in the Tuileries, and which in
1814 they might have distributed to their friends. If
so, it is not a very glorious trophy, and it was scarcely
worth while to wear it during a solemn ceremony in
which a King of the French took part."
The following article on the same subject, from the
Paris Globe, displays the same good taste and sound
argument :

" Every one is aware with what exquisite tact the
Queen of Great Britain bas known how to avoid the
slightest occasion to awaken the King's mind, or in that
of the officers who accompanied him, any reminiscence
that might call to their minds our unfortunate disputes
with England. However, far from taking into account
this spirit of propriety, which honours the Queen—far
from seeking to show to England that the public mind in
France is elevated enough to comprehend and appre•
ciate such admirable proceedings, our excellent and
patriotic journals do not the less continue to pub-
lish the grossest falsehoods on the humiliating recep-
tion by Queen Victoria of the Sovereign of France.
Yesterday it was the Duke of Wellington who endea-
voured, according to them, to humilitate us in coming to
Portsmouth to present his respectful homage to the
King ; to-day, it is the Waterloo Gallery which has

been insolently allowed to subsist at Windsor. Truly,
to believe these gentlemen of the Opposition, we must
have been tolerably daring ourselves when we charged
Marshal Soult, one of the rudest adversaries of England
during the Empire, to go and represent France at Lon
don on a solemn occasion. If the Duke of Wellington,
in appearing before our King wounded our national sus-
ceptibilities, did not we ourselves wound those of Great
Britain in presenting on Queen Victoria's coronation
Marshal Soult to her people ? As to the Waterloo Gal-
lery, the name of which calls to mind a day unfortunate
to France (where, however, whatever may be said, the
Queen gave no fete to Louis Philippe), have we not its
equivalent at Paris in several monuments commemorat-
ing our own victories ? And do we not show them to the
strangers who visit us, without ever thinking that they
should be offended at our endeavouring, after the example
of every nation in the world, to engrave on marble and
on bronze the pages which flatter most our just national
pride ? We may be certain that what we find it proper
to do at home we ought to consider good to be done
amongst others."
The Journal des Debats thus adverts to the ad-
dress presented to the KING by the Corporation of
London :—" The Queen of ENGLAND displayed all
the pomp and magnificence of her Court to Lours
and she has invested him with those
honours most coveted by foreign monarchs. The
English people, in their turn, wished to identify
themselves in the most expressive manner with the
sentiments of their Sovereign ; and the representa-
tives of the metropolis—the organs of the most en-
lightened classes, the most intelligent as well as the
most powerful of the nation—came to Windsor to
offer to the KING of the FRENCH the homage of
that universal respect which they pay to the friends
of civilisation and of real improvement. The pro-
ceeding of the Corporation of the City of London is a
fact of which the importance cannot be misun-
derstood. It is without example and without prece-
dent. It was the first time that the representatives
of the metropolis of England left the precincts of their
city to present their homage to a foreign potentate.
The citizens of London have more than once invited
the Kings of Europe to enjoy their princly hospi-
tality in their Guildhall, but they never rendered to
any Prince a similar homage to that which they of-
fered to the august and venerated representative of
our country. France assuredly—liberal, enlightened,
and emancipated France—will see with pride the
marks of respect bestowed on her SOVEREIGN by, the
citizens who enjoy the highest degree of liberty in
the world, and she will respond with profound sym-
pathy to the affectionate and noble sentiments which
the Corporation of London has expressed for the
French people as well as for their KING."
The following story, which first appeared in the
Journal du Havre, has been copied into several of the
Paris papers :

" The Prince de Joinville, who arrived unexpectedly
at the Palace of St. Cloud,‘,was saluted by the King with
all that effusion of heart, which a father, the chief of a
State, can alone feel under such circumstances. 'My
son,' said his Majesty, lam fully content with you, and
lam quite willing to prove it. What have you to ask of
me ?" Sire,' replied the Prince, I have in truth, a
request to make to you, and will speak of it to-morrow,
if your Majesty will permit me.' Returning to his apart-
ments, the Prince, at an advanced hour of the night,
seated himself at his writing-table, and with his own
hand drew up the preamble of the amnesty. It was not
for him to choose the names or fix the number. The
next morning at breakfast the King addressed the
Prince, and said, Well, what is your request ?" Here
it is, Sire,' replied the Prince, and presented to the King
the paper which he had in his hand. His Majesty
looked at it, an.l holding out his hand to the Prince,
said, It is well, you have only anticipated my wishes.'
On the same day the Council of Ministers did the rest."

TIIE BOURSE—'ruEsDA.I, OCT. 15.

First Highest Lowest Last

Wee. Pike. Price. Price.
French Five per Csnts llB 55 118 55 .. 118 40 118 50
Fours 167 .. 107 •-• 107 .• 107
Three per Cents... 82 15 .• 82 25 •• 82 10 .. 82 25
Bank of France....... 3055 ..3055 30.55 ..8055
Garotte Bank, I,ooof. Shareslllo ..1110 .• 1110 —lllO
5,000 f. Sharesso4s ..5045 —5045 •.5015
Selman Bank.••• •• • • 662 50 .. 662 50 ,• • 662 50 • - 662 50
BelglanFlve3.lB3l—. lOll .. 1011 .. 1011 1011
1640 1031 .. 1031 • • 1031 .. 1031
1842
Spanish Passive 5l •• 5i .. 51 .. 51
Active 32 32 • 32 .• 32
Threes..
Portuguese Five per Cents— 50 • • 50 • • 48 • • 491
Neapolitan ...... 70 .. 98 75 70 • • 48 75
Roman . .
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain .............. 920 .. 920 920 .. 920
Versailles, 11.1 i • 395 • • 395 • • 395 .. 395
L. 8.•.•• •••• 273 75 .• 281 25 273 75 .. 281 25
Rouen ..

Rouen to Barre—. ...... 765 766 25 .. 765 766 25
Orleans ...•

Strasburg to Bale•• •• •• •• 272 50 .• t 77 50 272 50 .. 277 50
Avignon to Marseilles•• •• •• 780 . 780 .. 780 .• 780
RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, OCTOBER 16.
Versailles, R. 8..• ... • . • .... 395 .. 395 .. 395 .. 395
L. 8.... ..... 275 .. 282 60 275 .. 282 50
Rouen •••••••••••• •••• 1015 ..1015 ..1007 50 ..1007 50

Rouen to Havre• • • • • • • • •• • • 762 50 765

Orleans . ..... ......_ ......1015

employed beyond the time fixed for the attendance of
the water-side officers.

The Lords of the Treasury having been pleased, by
their warrant, to approve of Hartlepool, at present a
aub-port of Stockton, being constituted a separate and
independent port, and of Seaham, also within the port of
Stockton, being attached to the port of Sunderland, the
Commissioners of the Customs have issued directions
that the same do take effect from the sth of January
next •, and copies of the order have been furnished to
the officers at the several departments in London, and
transmitted to the collectors and comptrollers at the
several outports of the United Kingdom, for their infor-
mation and government.

A splendid Scotch beast, which bids fair, from its pre-
sent appearace, to carry off one of the principal prizes
at the Christmas cattle-show at Smithfield, is now being
fattened on the Flemish Farm, in the occupation of his
Royal dighness Prince Albert, at Windsor. The beast
at the present time weighs 210 stone ; and as two
months will elapse before the show takes place, its
weight at that time is expected to be enormous.
The ship Royal Consort, which has arrived in the St.
Katherine's Dock from Batavia, had on board the captain
and crew of the Belgian ship Le Charles, with their bag-
gage, consisting of about 110 packages, their vessel hav-
ing been attacked and captured by the pirates at sea, in
consequence of which they were obliged to seek protec-
tion, and obtained a passage on board the Royal Con-
sort, bound to this port, on their way to their native
country.
Two candidates have announced their intention of con-
testing the vacant aldermanic gown for Portsuken-ward,
viz Mr. F. G. Moon and Mr. Thomas Bousfield. Mr.
Salomons declined again coming forward, as it is his
intention to petition against the decision of the Court of
Aldermen. Mr. Michael Scales was also solicited to
stand, but has declined, expressing his intention to use
his interest on behalf of Mr. Moon.

The annual meeting and exhibition of the Draycot
Parochial Agricultural Society took place last Tuesday.
The show of stock and implements was more numerously
supplied than in former years, and the whole was con-
sidered of superior quality.

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

At a county court held at the Sheriffs' Court, Red
Lion-square, this morning, before Messrs. Hunter and
Sidney, the lately appointed Sheriffs, Mr. Hemp, the
Sheriffs' officer, read a proclamation, outlawing the fol-
lowing persons :—Thomas Richard Kemp, Trevau-
nion, George Clark, Thomas Delahay, Thomas K. Chan-
nell, Wm. Payne, Sarah Gregson, Wm. Francis Ellaby,
George Baker, Thomas Hawkes, E. B. Luke, George and
John Croke, Sir John Scott Lillie, Win. Learmouth,
and Charles Wing.

BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Sir C. WILLIAMS.)
IN THE MATTER OF RICHARD WILSON.

The insolvent, who applied by Mr. Hughes for his
final order, was opposed by Mr. Dawson, of St. Swithin's-
lane, on the ground of having fraudulently contracted
a debt with him, and being a trader at the time, thus
putting the case entirely out of the jurisdiction of that
Court.

The evidence adduced, which was of a somewhat ex-
traordinary character, in point of hard swearing on one
side or the other, went to show that Mr. Dawson had
advanced the insolvent a sum of 2001., under agreement,
to be paid within a month, with a further sum of 1001.,
by way of interest ; the said sum being required by the
insolvent to free him from incarceration, on account
of some interest on a mortgage to a third party. At
the expiration of a month, the borrower and
lender went down to Wolverhampton, to receive a sum
of 5001., which the insolvent had represented was due to
him from an estate there, and out of which the sum ad-
vanced by Mr. Dawson, with the interest, was to be
paid ; when on the morning of the intended settling, the
insolvent left without Mr. Dawson's knowledge, that
gentleman being informed by the landlady of the inn, in
answer to his inquiry if Mr. Wilson was stirring yet ?
" Stirring, Sir, Lor' he be gone an hour or more."
After some considerable wrangling on both sides,
Sir C. WILLIAMS said that he would examine the in-
solvent a little, and he having been sworn said, that so
far from his " le•anting," as stated by Mr. Dawson,
that individual had actually walked arm in arm with him
to the coach, and had seen him off to London.
Mr. Dawson, emphatically—lt's as false as God
is true.

Sir C. WILLIAMS, after remarking upon the extraordi-
nary evidence, said he should much like, for his own
gratification, and for the exposure that seemed so much
wanted somewhere, that he could adjourn the case for
the examination of witnesses on this point ; but as the
case was out of the jurisdiction of the Court, he could
only dismiss the petition.

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
An elderly man named Anthony Calloway was brought
before Mr. Hall, charged with breaking the lamp over
the door at the resuleucc of the Duke of Northumber-
land, at Charing-cross.
The officer stated that he was on duty last night at
Charing-cross, when he saw the prisoner deliberately
break the lamp in question. He came up to him, and
the prisoner said the reason he had broken it was that
he was a brother of the Duke of Northumberland.

Mr. HALL inquired if any one was present from
Northumberland House, to prove whether the lamp was
a public or private one —The officer said there was not.
The prisoner, in his defence, said that he had often
tried to gain admission to this Court to state his case
t,o the magistrate, but he had always been refused. Ile
had been in great distress for a long time, and could not
get any relief.
Mr. HALL inquired why he went to the Duke of
Northumberland's house?

Prisoner—Because there is a relationship between us.
The Duke's father was my father. I have lived for
thirty years in Limehouse, but having been taken ill,
some time ago, I have been in great distress.
Mr. HALL—WeII, that is no justification. But, how-
ever, I am compelled to discharge you, as the evidence
is not complete against you.
The prisoner was then discharged

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(THIS DAY.)
Frederick Marinagne, a foreigner, of shabby-genteel
appearance, was placed at the bar, on a charge of stealing
a newspaper from a coffee-shop.
Mr. Matthew Snow, the proprietor of a coffee-shop in
Sherrard-street, Golden-square, stated that the prisoner
entered his rooms last evening, and while taking his
coffee, perused the National. On his leaving it was
missed. He was followed, taken into custody, and the
identical paper was found upon him.
Sergeant John Greig, of the C division, stated, that
on receiving the prisoner into his custody he proceeded
with him to his lodgings in Rupert-street, Haymarket,
and there found above a thousand newspapers ; six of
them of recent date being identified by the prosecutor.
Others were also of recent date ; amongst them were
two of the Gazette de France, three of the National, two
of the Morning Advertiser, three of the Journal des Debats.

Mr. MALTBY said he should remand the prisoner until
this day week.

UNION-HALL.--(THIS DAY.)
Walter Baker was charged with administering aqua-
fortis to a woman named Siddenham, with intent to
kill her.

It appeared the parties were acquainted, and that on
Sunday night they met, and while they were walking,
the prisoner took a phial out of his pocket, and saying
the contents were oil, poured some down her throat, and
then ran away. The defendant, finding that the liquid
burnt her mouth, and some portion falling on her clothes
burnt them also, hastened to the hospital, where anti-
dotes were administered.

The prisoner denied the charge, and declared she had
taken the phial with the aquafortis from his pocket, and
drank some of it, and that in trying to wrest it from her
grasp, some of it went on his hands and burnt them.
The prisoner was remanded until to-morrow.