The Sun.
London, England, 1821-12-28 00:00:00

GIOVANNI IN IRELAND.

Bow-STB.EF.T.—Yesterday Th..lnas I3aker Ciix, Esq. of
No. I,Soho-square, attended to prefer a complaint against Win.
Bond, a Constable of this Office, who does duty at Drury-lane
Theatre, for assaulting him. Bond having been sent for, by
order of the Magistrate,
Mr. Cox stated, that lie went on Wednesday evening to the
Pit of Drury-lane Theatre, and during some part of the repre-
sentation of the piece, called " Giovanni in Ireland," he thought
proper (as he conceived he had an undoubted right to do) to ex-
press disapprobation in the usual way, by crying " Off, off," and
hissing. While doing so, the defendant suddenly seized him by
the collar, dragged him from his seat, and in doing so, tore his
shirt. He remonstrated, and the defendant produced his staff,
said he was a Bow-street officer, and gave his name. But for
the interference of the audience, who cried " Shaine," at the
-conduct of the Constable, he would have been. put out of- the
Theatre, but the latter let him go. Ile should observe, that he
had previously seen Bond applauding very vehemently.
Sir R. Max IE —Well, there is no great harm in that, surely
—one man may be much pleased with a piece, with which an-
other is highly displeased.
Mr. Cox said, that was undoubtedly true, and by that very
rule, the officer ought not to have interfered with him.
Sir R. Btaxre said, Bond was there to keep the peace, and
he was right to interfere, if he saw any conduct which was likely
to create a breach of the peace.
• Mi. Cox said, he Yas expressing his opinion only in the le-
gitimate way.
Bond, in his defence, said, Mr. Cok had no sooner taken his
seat than he commenced hooting, and crying " Off," before
he could have had time to know whether there was any thing
to approve or disapprove;. and he continued so long and loudly,
that many of the audience cried " Turn him out." He was
the only person who so hOoted, and cried " Off." When he
took him into custody, he called him (Bond) a rascal, &c.; he
denied tearing his shirt.
Mr. Cox declared, that a_great number joined in the crylof dis-
approbation; the scene which particularly disgusted him was
that in which singing wasintroauced in a Court of Justice.-_a
thing, which, as the Worthy Magistrate must know, was never
yet heard of, and was a gross outrage upon propriety and de-
cency. Ile applauded sonic scenes, though he expressed his dis-
approbation at others ; he begged to deny calling Bond a rascal,
and to assert that he did tear his shirt. '

Bond said,-he had witnesses who Would bear him out in all
he had said. • .

Sir R. BritstE said, he was desirous that the charge should
--be fully investigated, and- he would, therefore, postpone the
hearing-until eleven o'clock to-morrow (this day), and then each
.party would bring what witnesses he chose.
EXTEISSME RORBERY.—Yesterday Henry Brown, aged
14, Henry Brookes, Mary Bates, Thos. Stokes, alias Williams.
and Moses Lyons, alias " Ike}" Nathan, Were brought be-
fore Sir RICHARD BIRNIE, and underwent a long exlmina-
tion, charged with being concerned (as.principals and acces-
wales before and after the fact) hi a robbery to the amount
of :12,001. committed upon Ntr.John Frost, a respectable jeweji
in Arundel-street, Strand. It appeared that the prisoner, Henry
Brown, lived in the service of Mr. Frost as an errand-boy, and
that lie let the parties in who committed the robbery. The gold
and silver were melted down and sold for 401)1. • ThT.prisoners
were remanded till Monday 'next for a final examination.

SHOCKING CATASTROPHE.-The following me-
lancholy event took place a few days ago in this
neighbourhood.. A person of the name of Hunt
recently went to reside in a new-built house at
Rainhill, and for several nights his three sons,
who slept in an upper room, in which there was
a fire-place but no grate; had a fire kindled in
it : on Sunday, the 9th instant, they did not come
down to breakfast at the usual hour, but as they
had no.business to do on that morning, it excited
no surprise. In a short time, however, Mrs.
Mitt went to their bedrooth, and, dreadftil to
relate, had the heart-rending affliction of behold-
ing them all lifeless ! Their death had been pro-
duced by suffocation. It appeared that the door
of the room, which had been formerly left open,
was on this night closed, and the humidity of the
room, it is supposed, preVented the smoke from
ascending by the chimney. From the posture in
which the bodies were found, only •one of them
appears to have been awoke to their terrible situ-
ation, and he, so overpo.,vered from the effects of
the effluvia, that his head was only partly raised.
They were of the respective ages of 14, 19, and
9.4. They were interred at Farnworth church,
and their funeral was attended by the most nu-
merous concourse of spectators ever witnessed in
that part of the country.—(Liverpool Ad7er-
tiser.)

An appalling occurrence,' the effect of de-
bauchery, happened at Lochee, near Dundee, on
Wednesday week. Two men having betaken
themselves to a course of hard drinking, formed
the wild resolution of trying their powers at
originality in swearing, or .who•could give utter-
ance-to the most horrific oath. The one having
given vent to his conception, the other Stood up,
and 'protested that his comrade's oath vms a mere
trifle ; said, he would give him a specimen ; but
just as.his lips were in progress to-mould the ut-
terance, his mouth being stretched to. the widest,
and his right arm raised on high, he was struck
with dumbness and delirium, his fact, and his
figure exhibiting a frightful spectacle. lie was
carried to the. Infirmary in the evening, and has,
since been discharged somewhat relieved.—
(Caledoniqn Mercury.)

roR THE SUN.

MODERN POLITICAL ECONO3IY.-(LEril:lt. li.)

.
Ma. Ebirrort.— The next of these sound prin.,
ciples is, that a rise in wages is a fall in profits.
Here is a plain demonstration ; if a man with the
same demand, the same hands, the same market, i
and the same quantity of goods, raise his work-
man's
wages, his profits will be less;—all this
we know—bUt then why should he raise wages ?
'Answer—because of the high price of the ne-
cessaries of life.—But let the high prices come,
before they are complained of ;----and then, if
the market for manufactures, and the genera!
demand for industry,should be in proportion, the
wages will naturally rise, and without loacring
i.
profits ; if the master can sell his goods, I will
warrant him to set a living profit upon them.—
All the time that we have been talking of the
evil of good and fair prices for corn and butcher's
meat, the value of them has been getting lower
and lower, and the nation becoming more mis-
erable
and distressed. At this very instant, when
the price of meat upon an as erage is about four-
pence-halfpenny 'a pound, there Is not a market
for cattle at all. I should hope that this is
enough to make every one begin to think that
the ruin of Agriculture can never benefit the
community.
I come now to a principle which is one of the
newest and most excellenf in the Itlcanoo-School,
namely, Rent falls on tire Consumer. This enlight-
ened and most liberal oniuion is levelled at the
whole Landed Interest ; it is not enough that more
than a reasonable proportion of the indtistry of the
people, and 'of the products of commerce, are
now in the power of the monied men, but they
must also attack the respectability of the Land-
holder, and attempt to make his property (which
is the source of all -value and wealth), an invi-
dious thing iu public estimation, because rent falls
on the Consumer! Of course it must be inferred.
that if there were no rent bread would be
cheaper, and the people would be better off :
secondly, that the Landlords' power to raise their
rents, or set them high, (and so on) augments the
price of bread. This must be an intolerable state :
of things in a free country I If the Landholders,
finding themselves likely to be ruined at this
time, were to take it into their heads to advance
their rents to save themselves,. regardless of the
consequences to the people, I shudder to think
of the consequences.—flut let us see Whether
there he not some circumstances which render
their fears somewhat chimerical. The Landholders
cannot get their. present_ rents paid by produce
tion, and where they. are paid, the money con Lea
from the capital of the tenant ; Well then,. if the
tenants could raise the price of Cori), would theY .
keep it high enough to 'pa ---tire landlords ?.
Doubtless they would ;- ergo, the tenants cannot
sell their products high in consequence of Mgt'
rents ; for if they could, and enforce the sale,
then would rents, tithes, taxes, -poor-rates, and i
all other expellees, fall on the consumers, and '
not otherwise. If farmers could set the price
of wheat, as mealmen do that of flour ; or E
like either them or the bakers, could col-
league together, and. say the best flour or bread
(wheat) ought not to .bp ;puler so much, then that
must be the price ; and I ivarrant you it would
not only cover the expellees, but leave a swing-
ing
profit behind, as the state of the 'Bread mar-
ket ~.
now testifies. Of the other two classes, .I wish -'-.;
in my heart and conscience that the public were- .'.
as Well rid of the power and combination of the ,1
trades in and about town, as they are safe y,
from suffering any 'thing by the extortion of
Landholders, (where that ,may exist) or the,
collusion of farmers, which is impracticable.—
There Was a man in the Committee of the Cori-
owns on Agricultural distress, w ho asked almost
all the Country witnesses whether tithes did not
'hill on the Consumer .2 And they could not tell.
God bless them ! The country lye )ple are a very
honest, industrious? simple race of men, and are-
easily put out of countenance by a Member of ,
Parliainent. Theyknew that the tithes Went off
their land, or. the composition in money out of
their pockets ; and they knew that at the year's.
end, if they had not enough to discharge the de-
mands I have mentioned before, they must make
up the difference out of 'their own property, as
long as it might last, or as far as it would go ;
but they had not studied Political Economy ;
there was something sudden 'in 'the question,
and a doubt or mystery seemed to 'hang
about it, and they could not..tell. The pro-,•
pounder of this wise question was of the Ricaa no-
School, and as he did net knew any better than
the others, he remained convinced that . tithes as
well.as rent fall on Vie consumers of bread.
I am, Sir`, your's &c.
APERTUS. ,
We swartaa..efaVal n.ratir.Sitrao7l 1,

We are happy to be able to state, for the sa-
tisfaction of Mr. WALLAcK's friends, that the ac-
count of the accident which had befallen him,
extracted from the Nev York Papers, is greatly
exagg'ratetl. Mr. W.t.i..LAciz has had tin. mis-
fortune to break his lig, hot not in two p!..ce •
The report of the sur,feon was highly.favourt.bio
when the last accounts came otl (t wu days after
the accident), and there was eveTy reason to ati-
ticipate
a speedy recovery and resumption of his
professitinal pursuits.