The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-24 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
Yesterday Isaac Higg aged twenty-eight, a paper-
stainer, lodging in Upper Ground-street, Lambeth,
was brought before Mr. Alderman Wilson, charged
with committing a murderous assault on Robert Col-
lins, a City policeman, who was on duty in St. Paul's
Churchyard on Sunday night.
Mr. Wolfe defended the prisoner.
Robert Collins deposed that he saw the prisoner
committing a nuisance against the lamp-post, at the
edge of the pavement, between Hall and Allan's and
the Chapter House, and a female was standing by his
side, playing with 'him. Witness took hold of his
arm, and saying that he was very indecent, led him
towards the dead wall, and ordered the female to
move on. The prisoner went to the wall, but turned
round and said, "George, you are a rogue."
Witness replied, he had better mind what he was say-
ing, or he would get into the wrong. Witness told
the female, who had stopped, to go on. She did so,
and witness walked after her. The prisoner came
after him, and instantly struck him a blow on the
forehead. Witness collared him, and said, " You
shall go to the station-house now". The prisoner
said, "You shan't take me." Witness drew his
truncheon, but at the same moment received another
blow with the prisoner's stick, and by a push or some
means was thrown down. The prisoner also fell, but
got up fist, wrenched the truncheon from him, and
struck him on the forehead. He had no recollection
of what occurred aft et wards.
This evidence was confirmed, and the prisoner was
committed for trial.
CLEIMEN WELL.
Yesterday, Elizabeth Lewis, a tall woman, was
charged by Mr. James Lewis, veterinary surgeon, of
Long-yard, Lamb's-conduit-street, with stabbing him.
The prisoner, who was charged on a warrant, was
so violent towards Bayson, the officer, that he was
compelled to convey her to the Court in a cabriolet.
It appeared that the parties had been married for
twelve years, and the defendant was addicted to in-
temperance, and disposed of property to indulge her
propensity. On Sunday last complainant remon-
strated with her on the impropriety of her conduct,
and the bad example she afforded to her children,
when she seized a fork, and running towards the
door, stabbed him in the back, and calised three
wounds by its prongs. He turned round to reproach
her, when she seized another fork and stabbed him
under the right shoulder. She was secured, rid wit-
ness was taken to the hospital' where his wounds
were dressed. She had before maltreated him, and he
felt his life to be in danger from her violerce.
The prisoner, in her defence said, the complainant
abused her in a shameful manner. He struck her
with a stick, and threw a chair at her.
Complainant said, he held up the chair to save
himself from the fork. He did not touch her before
she stabbed him. He was still under the hands of the
surgeon.
Mr. COMDE (to the prisoner)—You:must be com-
mitted till Friday next.
Prisoner (crying) —Oh, pray do not send me to
prison ; do not disgrace me.
Mr. COMBE—You should have thought of that be-
fore you used such a weapon.—She was then com-
mitted.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
John Parker, a labouring man, was yesterday
brought before Mr. Maltby, by Lacy, the messenger
of St. George's, Hanover-square on a charge of
having caused the death of his wife, by refusing to
allow her sufficient support.
The case was not gone into, as an inquiry before
the Coroner is to take place. The short facts appear
to be, that a suspicion arose some time ago that the
deceased was kept in a starving state by her hus-
band. The parish authorities were applied to, and a
warrant was issued against the husband for neglecting
to supply his wife with proper maintenance. The
woman died before the warrant was executed, and as
an impression got abroad that her death had been
accelerated by her husband's unfeeling conduct, the
warrant was put in force, and the man was taken into
custody.
Mr. MALTBY directed the prisoner to be remanded
until the result of the investigation before the Coroner
was known.
Captain William Breedon was charged with having
commitsod an unprovoked assault on a gentleman
mussed Falconer, living at No. 7, Wilton-street.
The complainant said he was walking along the
Haymarket ,at twelve o'clock last night, when he
suddenly received a blow on his body from the de-
fendant, who was a total stranger to him. The blow
was so violent as to deprive him of his breath, and to
cause considerable pain to him ever since.
Mr. Willis, of No. 4, Trafalgar-square, saw the
assault, which was premeditated and perfectly unpro-
voked. He had previously watched the defendant,
who, as he passed along the street, menaced persons
with his cane ; but he took special care to avoid any
man whose bulk appeared likely to secure retaliation.
The prisoner said he lived at Kennington. In 're-
ference to the assault, he merely said he had been
quarrelling with his wife, and this had operated on his
temper. He had no intention of assaulting the com-
plainant.
Mr. Kunst inflicted the full penalty of 51., or two
months imprisonment.
UNION-HALL.
Yesterday, Eliza Davis, late inmate of the Female
Penitentiary at Pentonville, was brought up on re-
mand, charged with robbing William Wyatt, in the
employ of a mercantile firm in the City.
When the case was called on, Mr. Payne, the bar-
rister, said that since the previous examination, Mrs.
Lane, the matron of the Penitentiary, had been com-
municated with, and she distinctly denied ever having
had such a conversation with the prisoner as she al-
leged, with respect to a meeting in Bond-street to
arrange matters. That Mrs. Lane was now in at-
tendance to disprove the assertion alluded to, if it
was deemed necessary to ask her ; but that, under all
the circumstances, Mr. Wyatt, the complainant, had
avowed he erred himself on the occasion in suffering
himself to be entrapped by the prisoner into an un.
fortunate liason with her. Although it would be
proved she had robbed him of the property, yet that
he had no desire of proceeding with the charge, his
main object being throughout to openly avow that
he had not authorised her to take the various articles.
As, however, the complainant admitted he had erred
himself on the occasion, he (the Learned Counsel)
fully agreed that it was his best plan not to press the
charge, unless the magistrate or the prisoner herself
were desirous he should proceed with the prosecution.
Mr. Payne then complained, on the part of his
client, of an inaccuracy in the report of the previous
examination in an evening paper, and copied into
some morning journals, describing that the com-
plainant did not deny he had authorised the prisoner
to take his property. So far from that being the case,
the complainant throughout the whole proceedings de-
nied that he had ever given her such authority.
Mr. Titans, having questioned the prisoner as to
whether she wished the case to proceed or to have it
withdrawn, and her answer being in accordance with
the latter, she was therefore discharged.
George Henry Brenton, an apothecary in Newport-
street, Lambeth-walk, was placed at the bar for exa-
mination, charged with assaulting and causing the
death of Mary, his wife.
The deceased's brother attended, and stated that the
inquest was held on her body the preceding day, and
that it was postponed with a view to have the attend-
ance of two gentlemen whose evidence would be likely
to turn out of the utmost importance.
Mr. TRAILL inquired if a post mortem examination
had taken place, and the witness replied in the affirma-
tive, and at the same time handed in a certificate of
two medical gentlemen, which declared that her death
was attributable to disease of the lower portion of the
spinal column, which appeared to have been produced
by violence.
Mr. TRAILL—Was there any testimony adduced of
the lady having received any violence at the hands of
the accused ?
The witness, in reply, said there was none but that
of the nurse, who heard the scuffling in the bedroom
on the night of the alleged violence.
The accused inquired if Mr. Fisher was present at
the post mortem examination of his wife, that gentle-
man having attended her aceouchement, and there-
fore qualified to describe her particular condition
during that period, and the dangerous symptoms un-
der which she laboured, and which would account
for her dissolution ?—The witness, in answer, said
that the coroner had ordered the attendance of the
gentleman alluded to ; upon which the prisoner re-
quested that Mr. Jones might be summoned to attend,
as he could also give some important testimony in
the case.
The prisoner was then remanded until Friday.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Yesterday Thomas Smith, alias:Richard Sheldrick,
who has been many times examined with Henry Mil-
ler, SarahlDewar, alias Miller, and the rest of a gang
who have carried on a most extensive system of
STATE OF TRADE AT MANCUESTER.—The con- swindling, was placed at the bar before Mr. Brough-
y hands, ton, upon a distinct charge of for
tinned uncertainty with respect to the factor y.
keeps the market here in a very buoyant state.
Yarn, being exceedingly scarce, and most of the Mr Michael Levy Green, and Ephraim Levy
.
spinners under engagement for some weeks, whilst Green, his brother, clothiers, in Houndsditch, proved
the demand is considerable, the prices continue to im- that early in September two persons, who called
prove. Goods are also firm in price, though the themselves George and James Truman, of Acton, or-
market is scarcely
so active as it was last week.
FFt A - dered goods to the amount of 501., giving a reference
RocunAL
• • Nem. MARKET, OCT 21 —There is not to Mr. Dewar, 22, Ashford-street, Hoxton, and Mr.
the least improvement in the flannel market, which has Ephraim Green proceeding to that place to make in-
been extremely chill and inactive. The wool market quirt', saw a girl, who said she was Mr. Dewar's
has been equally flat, and the sales extremely limited.—
daughter, and that her father was out, but she went
Manchester Guardian.
As Mr. William Gallon, publican and dealer in ma- for him, and in a few minutes returned with the pri-
engaged, o soner now at the bar, who, on being asked, said that
tine stores, Low-street, Sunderland, was
boiling pitch in the kitchen of his his name was Henry Dewar, and spoke so highly of
Monday last, in
the two prisoners calling
ling house, the composition ignited, and in endeavouring themselves Truman, that
to take the vessel off the fire, a quantity of it was scat- the 50/. worth of goods were supplied, 20/. being paid
tered over his clothes, by which he was enveloped in in cash, and the prisoner's acceptance taken for the
flames, and, being afflicted with paralysis, he was unable remainder. On the 9th of September, bill for
to use any effort to extinguish the fire, by which he was 291. 188. was accordingly drawn up in i a
he presence
a• much injured that he died on Thursday morning.— of the prisoner, who accepted it in his assumed name
of Dewar. It was not due till the 12th of November,
Journal

SPIRIT of th‘ PUBLIC JOURNALS.
/SON Tfl ITZWING memo OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—It were much to be wished that Sir
James Graham's proposed amelioration of the game-
laws could by some means or other be brought
into operation before the coming Christmas. At the
moment we are writing, when the sessions of the
county justices are taking place throughout the
country, the prisoners indicted for game offences are
but few, or none. It is not until later in the season
that the fertile crop of crime, which these laws un-
fluctuatingly produce, begins to be reaped. But it
is painful to reflect, that with an entire change of
the game-law system in actual consideration, some
hundreds of its victims will, in all probability, be suf-
fering a life-long doom of banishment, from which but
a few months would have saved them. That the
game-laws produce much crime is admitted. The
utmost that is contended for is, that their effects are
exaggerated ; and that the remedy is to be looked
for, not in legislation, but in the moderation of the
landed proprietors. This view of the subject we find
ably enforced in a speech by Lord Charles Russell,
at a meeting of the justices of Bedfordshire on Tues-
day, the 15th instant. We extract the following
from the report in the Cambridge Independent Press :
" Ho had said that he had no hope in legislation on
this subject: it seemed to be generally admitted that
some laws respecting game must exist, and none could,
he thought, be more simple and rational in principle
than the present laws. They proceeded on the p
ciple that those who occupied land should have the quiet
possession of it. In ordinary cases, there being no
strong inducement to trespass, an action at la a
w was
er
a
sufficient protection; but, as game afforded strong
inducement to trespassers, it was necessary that there
should be a readier way of punishing them. With re-
spect to the evils ascribed to the game-laws, the
principal were these :—The demoralisation of the
poor; the great consumption by gamo of what ought
to be the food of man; and the diminution of the
amount paid for labour, by placing difficulties in the
way of the due cultivation of the soil, by not growing
green and root crops. The first of these, he believed,
was much exaggerated: with regard to the two latter,
he fully admitted them, but did not think them by any
means necessary consequences of the game-laws, but
proceeding from want of moderation in the landlords
availing themselves of them."
After alluding to the battue system, Lord Charles
continued:—
" That was a foreign system of sporting ; but no
law could remedy it : any law upon the subject would
unavoidably be a sumptuary law ; and what would be
too much game for one locality might not be so for
another. . . . . He would say, gentlemen
must look to moderation rather than to legislation."
Now we most readily admit that " those who
occupy land," or any other property, " should have
the quiet possession of it ;" and we have no objection
to the axiom generally, that greater inducement to
tres;)assers must be met by readier means of punish-
ment. But we doubt whether these principles involve
all that is contained in the present system of
game-laws. Under the present system, the
servants of a game preserver may take up any
man with it gun, and without a license, upon
the Queen's highway—(vide Lord Stradbroke's
Act)—and may bring him before their master,
the owner of the game, who may himself
punish, without appeals for the offence committed upon
his own property ; all this without a farthing
expense to himself, but falling on the ratepayers gene-
rally, not a tithe of whom' probably ever see game out
of the poulterer's. We confess we should not expect to
find all this involved in the ex
loression, "readier means
of punishment." The propoea; which gave rise to
the discussion—though withdrawil for another consi-
dered more likely to receive the wen!, of the justices—
was simply, that the expenses incurred in the prosecution
and conviction of poachers should be defrayed by
the parties prosecuting. A measure ,more simple,
and more calculated to cure any " want oi moderta-
tion in the landlords availing themselves ef he
game-laws," we cannot readily conceive. Ti.'ere
are several assumptions that must be made before
the present game-law system can be even ex-
cused. That game is property in the same senee
and to the same extent as a horse or a fowl—
that it more concerns the well-being of society
that a hare or partridge should be placed every
day in the season on the table of the Peer,
than that demoralising influences should not break
up the home of the peasant, making of himself an
exile and of his family vagabonds—we know not,
even if more than this must not be granted before we
could be induced to place our reliance upon the mode-
ration only of the game preserves. With no motive
in the world to create moderation, but with every
facility to gratify the most immoderare desires, we do
more than pause. Laws are made, not to rely on what
men will do, but to guard against what they may do.
That system is essentially faulty which confides the \
power of punishment to the party interested, relying
upon his moderation to keep some proportion between
the punishment and the offence. It would be equally
reasonable to rant the poacher the liberty of trespass
at will, confiding in his moderation to leave a sufficient
stock of game upon the estate. There is, no doubt,
a power of revision—which it is understood has of
late been exercised—in the Secretary of the Home
Department. But if the present system is to be
maintained, and the power of revision to be relied
on, it will be necessary, to create a new officer,
to be known as the Chief General Justiciary
of all the Shires of the Realm. Legislation
may, at least, do tbis—it may supply motives to
moderation. The landlords must not be the only
parties interested, with the sole power of punish-
ment and the sole avoidance of expense. The
rights are too much for the duties. If need be, let
the right remain ; but let the expense of defending it
fall upon the parties interested—for this, least of all
kinds of property, it concerns the State to protect—
let all violations of it be judged of it by a jury not
composed of the landlord's tenants-at- will, and let
sone more fit judge be chosen to award the punish-
ment than, in any possible case, the owner of the game.
Much has been said respecting the administration of
justice by the county magistracy ; and we may freely
state—without at present discussing the general ar-
gument—that we believe, so far as that function goes,
professional substitutes, or assessors, would be more
competent, more attentive, and more impartial. But
the question we are now discussing may be decided
apart from the more general question. We can for-
give incompetence; we can put up with neglect of
duty, within reasonable limits ; but a system which
reverses the leading principle of English judicature,
and transforms the judge from a counsel for the
prisoner into the party principally interested in his
condemnation and rigorous punishment, is too shock-
inz in the bare idea.

CONFUCIUS AND THE MUSICAL

GOVERNOR.
In the same year, Ke-kang-tsee, one of the Minis-
ters of the King of Loo, wrote to Confucius to invite
him to return into his native country ; he sent him
money for the expenses of his journey, and added con-
siderable presents of every description, to induce him
to yield to his request. Confucius did not want any
reward for doing what he was required. He had al-
ready for some time formed the design of leaving the
kingdom of Wei, where he felt himself to be useless ;
he took advantage, therefore, of the good-will of the
Minister of the King of his native country, and set
off on his return.
On the road there was a considerable town, then
named Ou-Ching, the care of which was entrusted to
one of his disciples, named Tsee-yeou. As he ap-
proached the city he was surprised to hear the sound
of the great instruments, and the notes of the music
appropriated to the solemn ceremonies. lie turned
towards his disciples, and said to them, laughing,
"To kill a chicken you do not want the same knife
that is used in slaying an ox."
Tsee-yeou, who had come to meet Confucius, imme-
diately understood what Confucius alluded to, and,
without being disconcerted, immediately replied,
" Master, I have not forgotton the lessons which you
have given me, and I have endeavoured to turn them
to account. You have taught us that there is no man
incapable of acquiring wisdom ; and that one of the
ways of acquiring it is, the study of the grand music
and the grand ceremonies, because it is, in studying
the grand music and the grand ceremonies, that we
learn to regulate our own hearts according to the
dictates of sound reason, and to conduct ourselves to-
wards our fellow-creatures according to the rules of
that universal charity which teaches us to love all
men in general, and every one in particular. The
inhabitants of the little, town which is under my go-
vernment are men ; I endeavour to lead them to wis-
dom, by the path which you have pointed out to us.:,
" I am perfectly satisfied with what you say,"
said Confucius, " it was without reflection, and for
the amusement of the moment, that I said that you
should not use the same knife to kill a chicken as an
ox. I approve of your conduct; continue to conduct
yourself in the same manner, and rely upon my
approbation."—Captain Pidding's Chinese Olio.

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