The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-14 00:00:00

CRICKET.

The grand return match between eleven of the county
of Kent and an equal number of the county of Surrey,
commenced on Thursday se'nnight, at Sevenoaks Vine, and
concluded, after some excellent play, as follows :
K XNT. $U
Ist Innings 177 Ist Innings 66
2d Ditto B4 2d Dittos 4l

Kent Winning by 154 runs.
time of the year, and the co
bility, and numerous throng

1 107
The weather was fine for the
'luny of the utmost respeeta-
out the game.

The celebrated TALLEYRAND is said to have
completed the Memoirs of his eventful life and times, which
he is said. to have bequeathed to his nephew and stic.ceesor,
under an injunction to publish them ten years atter his
decease.

Mr. WYNN.—The Right Hon. CHARLES
time, particularly as we
W. W. Wv xx, the late President of the Board of Control,
know he was here a fevonwthams
statesman of great experience and of the most liberal
politics, arrived in town yesterday'. His arrival at this
ago, is regarded as an event not altogether without object.
Indeed, reports of the most interesting nature are current
on the subject, —Dublin _Evening Post.
THE FRIENDS OF CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS
LIBERTY.--This Shilling Debating Society held another
noisy and tumultuous meeting last night, at the Mechanics'
Institution. Mr. BECK W ITH was called to the Chair, in
the absence of the Rev. Mr. SrooNER. The meeting in
miserably attended.

The bankers at the west end of town have it
in contemplation to open their houses at ten o'clock, and
close at, four instead of the present hours of nine and five;
which will save the dinner-hours of the clerks in the middle
of the day, and in other respects be more suitable and con.
venient to their general business. This regulation will com-
mence on the Ist of January.

A FAMILY of GREAT MEN.--In Denton,
near Manchester, resides a family of the name of Howa RD.
hatters by trade, of whom the father and two sons together
weigh 1,0301b5. ; the mother is only five feet two inches
in height, and weighs no more than I Olin.

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON .TOURNALS.

We have derived very great gratification from the
perusal of a Sermon preached by the present Bishop
of London on the 22d of June last, for the benefit
of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Dis-
cipliie, and for the Reformation of Juvenile offen-
ders. The Sermon breathes throughout a spirit of
genuine philanthropy, and is altogether so different
in character from any thing proceeding from the
Episcopal Bench, which has of late fallen in our
way, that we must be pardoned for considering the
appearance of such a production a new era in the
Church. In the Charges and Sermons of Bishops
we have almost always found those exalted per-
sonages looking with ill-will at the improvement of
tl:iieicfheo wereN
s•a
irreconcilablye es as if the interest of the
opposed to the interest
of
the people—as if the safety of the Temple were
best secured by its being surrounded by thick dark-
ness. The predecessor of Dr. Blomfield, now Arch-
bishop l-creatures,
(,
bishop of Canterbury, in a far-famed charge, en-
joined the prostration of the will and the understand
ing, and in another spoke of knowledge as being an
antagonist power to religion. The present Arch-
bishop of Dublin, in his examination before a Com-
mittee of the House of Commons, in 1825, when
asked " Does there exist in the minds of the people
an anxiety for instruction ?" answered—" Thelower
classes in Ireland are extremely desirous to have,
what they call, learning ;" and again, " 'nen, should
their education increase also, and their exclusion
continue, does not your Grace conceive that thfs
progress of education will also measure the in-
creased dissatisfaction which they will feel at ex-
clusion ?" answered, " I am sure that an over edu-
cation of the lower orders will, under any cir-
cumstances, create dissention, and produce mischief."
It was but the other day that a Bishop in
weighed lustily against Mechanics' Institutes, as
one of the channels by which the antagonist
power, above alluded to, was fed. But the
9ishop of London's Sermon is conceived ie
what we should have been led to consider a most.
anti-episcopal spirit. His:Lordship strenuously ad-
vocates the diffusion of knowledge, and the Reform
of our Laws, with the defects of which he is evis
dently well acquainted. When individuals in his
exalted station are actuated by the noble ambition of
endeavouring to leave the world better than they
found it, and the ambition is seconded by com-
manding talents, the good they may do is immense.
We hail, then, he appearance of this Sermon, as a
source of hope and consolation for the country, as
the harbinger of a better spirit in the religious
structors of the nation. Speaking of Education,
his Lordship observes, with obvious reference to the
evidence of some of the witnesses before the Police
Committee—" It is marvellous and larnes:ttible that
even at this time of day persons should be found
who maintain that the increase of juvenile deiiiis
fluency, if it has not in part been occasioned by tlit
general diffusion of education, has at least received
no check from it. I would fain be told by what,
process of inquiry they have arrived at this conclu-
sion ; not certainly by examining the Returns made
from the different gaols ; still less from an investi-
gation of the books of our schools; from which it
would appear that the proportion of criminals who
have been educated upon any thing like a right sy.l.-
tem, or to any considerable extent, is very small.
Unless crime itself can be eradicated as education
extends itself through all classes, the proportion of
educated delinquents must increase. Surely the
fair inference is this :—if, unhappily, the number of
offenders is so great, in spite of the advantages of
education, how fearfully great would it have been,
had no extraordinary efforts been used to comitinni-
cate religious knowledge to the poor." 1-low
short a period has elapsed, since the endeavouf
of Sir Samuel Romilly to apportion punish-
ment to crime, that the connection between crime
and punishment might be more certain, was scouted,
in the House of Lords, as a wild and visionary in-
novation ! How cheering the contrast presented
by the language of the Bishop of London ! "It is
no longer necessary," he observes, "to prove by
argument, that the true end of punishment is the
prevention of crime; or that such prevention is to
be accomplished principally by two methods; the
correction and reformation of the criminals them-
selves, and the religious and moral improvement of
those classes which are most exposed to temptation.
These methods I consider to be incomparably the
most effectual, without overlooking the importance
of a due apportionment of punishment to crime,
and of establishing in the opinions and expectations
of the people a certain and uniform connection. be-
tween the offence and the appropriate penalty."—
It is profitable occasionally to look back from the
point we have reached to the ground we have passed
over. It is assumed by Dr. Blomfield, as a matter
no longer to be disputed, that there should be an
uniform connection between the offence and its aps,
propriate penalty. Now, in 1811, when Sir Samuel
Romilly's Bills were before the House of Lords,
only ten Peers supported Lord Holland's motion
for a second reading, and they were consequently
lost by a great majority. We remember well the
insulting tone of the late Lord Ellenborough
on the occasion. The Bills, quoth he, went
"to alter those laws which a century had proved
to be necessary, and which were now to be over-
turned by speculation and modern philosophy."—
Lord Eldon saw " the wisdom of the principles by
which our criminal code was regulated," and op-
posed the innovation. Lord Redesdale was also op-
posed to innovation. Lord Liverpool told us that
our " Code had succeeded as well as it was possible
for any system of Criminal Law to succeed. lie
should, therefore, oppose the Bills, which, while he
was sure they could effect no good, might
.be pro-
ductive of very great mischief." There was no
Doctor Blomfield on the Bench of Bishops to utter
any of those enlightened arguments which his
Lordship now urges so triumphantly; and the here-
ditary Legislators went to their homes in a state of
trepidation, on account of the alarm into which they
had been thrown by this daring, attempt of " specu-
lation and modern philosophy. Now, it is a great
encouragement to men to persevere in a good cause,
were main-
however unfavourable appearances may be at the
time, when we find that in a few years such has
been the change wrought by reasoning, there is not
one individual of any note to be found in the coun-
try,tained by the Ministry, the House of Lords, and the
ultdhehapverintehieplesss•hich
Judges of the land. Where is the man in the pre-
sent barefaced audacity to
day who
tell us, as Lord Liverpool did onlw a • few years ago,
that our Criminal " Code had
succeeded as well as
it was possible for any system of Criminal Law to suc-
, seed." Any man who should display such extra-
' ordinary ignorance, or such extraordi• nm • d
would be hooted out of societ We
believe
it
C hise
y.y. ' r
Lordship to have been merel •
no antgros y
ignorant. But this is a proof that we have: made
advances; for no man of his Lordship's industry
would now maintain that the system had not wrought
most detestably.- Dr. Blomfield adverts to a gross
defect in our criminal system, which remains yet to
be remedied. " Upon the treatment which a youth-
ful delinquent receives (he observes) when detected
in his first offence, depends in all probability his
character and conduct for the remainder of his life ;
and his prospects in eternity. To consign him,
when only suspected (arid therefore presumed by
the law to be innocent), or even when convicted of
a slight offence to a common punishment, and an
indiscriminate intercourse with the most hardened
and abandoned criminals, is to force him into moral
contagion, and probably upon spiritual destruction."
And in a note to this passage, he observes, " This
is, perhaps, the greatest practical injustice which oc-
curs in the execution of our criminal law. Commit
meat before trial, except in the case of graver
offences, ought surely never to be resorted to where
the appearance of the accused to take his trial can be
secured in any other .vay." This is indeed a grievous
blot in our criminal procedure. Our prisons'are crowded
with individuals committed for paltry offences, and
unable to procure bail, at an enormous expence
of contamination and of pecuniary burden. 1114

q.vit is gratuitous; and nothing but sheer ig-
!lc/ranee, or the grossest judicial superstition would
countenance it. The individual who, in slight cases,
Bees from justice, and allows a sentence for contu-
macy to be suspended over him, inflicts on himself
a heavier punishment than the law would inflict oe
him. Hence it is found in all other countries that
the dread of the consequences of a sentence in ab-
sence is always-sufficient to ensure the presence of a
defendant in slight cases. Bail can never be neces-
sary, except in cases of a serious nature. The hold-
ingpoor people to bail, causes the ruin of thousands,
r body and soul, every year, in this metropolis. The
returns on this head are most appalling. We can-
' lig% conclude our remarks, without availing ourselves
,;eiT the following truly liberal observations of the
Bishop of Lorrclon:—" The grand principle of pre-
:4w' vendor' is this,—and it is a principle which this
r. state can only indirectly enforce; but for the en-
, forcemeat of which, in every possible direction and
,
w .uegree, it ought to make provision ;--that men shall
d, be convinced, not only of the unlawfulness, but the
sinfulness, of crime : that they should be disinclined
from its commission, by the influence of more pre-
vailing, and more constraining motives than die ani-
mal fear of punishment; that they should be taught
to regard it as infinitely detrimental to their own in-
terests." Now, though enormous sums are taken from
the people for the professed object of supplying
them with instruction, it is not the less true, that their
moral instruction has been almost entirely neglected.
The peg: le should be taught, as his Lordship judi-
ciously observes, that " crime is detrimental to their
own interests." But this can only be done by ac-
quainting them with the principles on which
the prosperity of a nation depends, and instruct-
ing them in the principles of morals. There
is no ethical treatise, as far as we know, adopted
for the body of the people. The great fault in this-
country is, that we preach abstractions to the people
—we tell them they are to do justice, to live vir-
tuously, and so forth ; but we do nothing to enable
them to solve the difficulty as to what is demanded
of them in the various. circumstances of life, that
they may live cvell. The Catholic Casuists, and our
old Puritan Divines, endeavoured, according to the
measure of their knowledge, to -.enlighten the con-
sciences of the people; and the Christian Directory
of Richard Baxter, in particular, might be of great '
use to those who are desirous of benefiting the
people by the communication of the more enlightened
views of our days: Instead of idle abstractions or
mystical nonsense, the people should be catechised in
the schools in the knowledge calculated to make
them enlightened members of society in their seve-
ral stations. We repeat it, there is no moral educa-
tion in this country... Dr.. Blomtield's example
will, we trust,- operate. beneficially on his ecclesias-
tical brethren. We trust also, that as he possesses
such enlightened views in: Moral and political sub
jests, he will follow up this sermon by other works
itt the same spirit.—Aforning Chronicle.
If any doubts could have been entertained as to
the fulness and veracity of the Russian bulletins,
they must be removed •from the minds of the most
Incredulous by a short 'publication which has just
made its appearance at St. Petersburgh, and which
is equally authentic and decisive. This is no other
than a manifesto by ", Nicholas 1., Emperor and
Autocrat of all the Russias," which begins with ra-
ther a droll declaration, that " notwithstanding the
success of our arms in the war now carrying on
against the. Ottoman Porte," " our anxious wish to
put an aid to the struggle, unexpectedly protracted
as it has been by the obstinacy of the enemy, calls
upon us to' -- (solicit or offer peace ? for

1 the declarations then made nothing need he added;
from them nothing need he taken away. Therefore
they are silent. They justly feel that those who
presume to infer some change in their opinions, be-
cause they do not upon every opportUnity, or with-
out any; reiterate the sentiments they solemnly ex-
pressed three months ago, offer them a deliberate
and' intentional insult. But in the strength of con-
- scions honour, integrity, and consistency—powerful
in the secure awl well-merited esteem and confidence
and affection of the British nation, they may and do
despise and disregard this and all the other insults of
faction. Of the merit to which we have been al-
luding as one of the most distinguishing merits of the
Duke of Wellington's Administration, Mr. Secre-
tary Peel has had many opportunities, during his
tour in the North, of offering the most signal and
splendid illustrations. Received wherever he appear-
ed with unanimous and enthusiastic expressions of
admiration and esteem—thus received not merely as
one of the most important Members of an Adminis-
tration deservedly popular, but as the most zealous,
uncompromising, and able champion of opinions
upon one great constitutional question, with respect
to which the Cabinet is known not to be unani-
mous—upon no occasion, although called upon to
bear his part, time after time, in scenes of festive
enjoyment prepared to do him honour, and frankly
and honourably joining in the social expression of
sentiments common to himself and his cntertainers—
in no single instance did he utter a syllable that
could give a moment's uneasiness to any one of his
Colleagues in the Administration—never was he
betrayed into a word calculated to compromise the
dignity of his Majesty's Government, or to disturb
the cordiality and mutual conlidence which prevail
among his Majesty's confidential Servants. This,
we say, is the proudest triumph to Mr. Secretary
Peel, and the highest honour to the Administration
in which he bears so distirguished a part ; and we
are accordingly not surprised that it should have
provoked the displeasure and stimulated the per-
verse ingenuity of the enemies of Government.—
But Mr. Secretary Peel and the Administration
of the Duke of Wellington are not always silent.
They can and do speak, when it is necessary to the
adequate discharge of their official duty ;' and when
they speak, they speak intelligibly and with effect.
We refer, in proof of this, to the Proclamation pro-
mulgated by their order in Ireland. The orators of
the Association—the personal friends, as some of
them have recently boasted, of the Marquis of An-
glesett—are; it seems, quite displeased and con-
founded by this Proclamation. Mr. Orator Shiel
• thinks the Association would have preserved the
peace of Ireland better without the Proclamation
_ _

such would be the natural consequence Of such a,
announcement —no. such thing, but to) " perso
cm. .r"—" Notwithstanding that we have been vic-
torious," quoth his Majesty, " we feel an anxiqus
wish for peace, and are therefore. called Upon' to
persevere' in carrying on the contest I" This is
pretty well for a beginner. The pith, however, of
the document is to come; and here there follows a
comfortable communication to the Muscovites, of
the Imperial pleasure, that a general recruiting is
to take place instanter throughout the whole of his
Majesty's dominions—the " success" of the war
having been so eminent as to require the peronal
service of four individuals cut of every 500 Ritssian
subjects, amounting in the whole to something more
than 90,000 negociators of the " anxiously-wished-
f9r" peace, in addition to the 150 or. 200,000, about
a third or one half of whom bare perished within
the last four months, in the same beneficent act of
peace-making. It is Ordained that the entire of this
new corps diploinatique shall be ready for business
in two month from the Ist of. November. Now,
when it is observed that towards the close of the
manifesto the real object 'assigned to this extensive.
recruiting party, is to " put into a complete state ,
the military power" of the Russian empire, it ought
to be recollected that before the campaign began,
the statements industriously circulated thrOughout
Europe of the military force on foot, exceeded.
500,000 men, and that in the course of the cam•
paign, with the single exceptirei Otthe assault of Brai-
low, no greater loss was in any instance acknowledged
by the bulletins than some 500 or 600 men, and
after fighting a whole day, often no more than tliat
of 20 or 30 killed. One marvels, therefore, that
with the enormous military establishment which was
at first laid claim to by Russia, and after such
very trifling deductions. as those which have been
made Iron, it by the published bulletins of the war,
a fresh supply of 100,000 soldiers should still be re-
quired to " Complete" a force, assuming to be so
tremendous at the outset, and in the sequel to have
suffered so inconsiderably. •The fact is, that the
Russians are beaten,—against the general expecta-
tion, we admit,—to the present relief of our own ap-
prehensions, we acknowledge.—and, in 'spite of what
some ignorant Newspapers Prtellll, to the abso-
lute overthrow of all. the opinions
.Which, ru the ear-
lier periods of the campaign, were professed by the
Duke of Wellington as to the issue of the. Rusaian
operations. His Grace, as is known to dozens of
people, declared over and over, and long sincethe
Russians crossed the Danube, that the superior
• ais-
eipline and organization of' their army must .
tably prevail against the tumultuous stud
ill-consti-
tuted troops of. the Porte. )yypentitm
it is a will-known- truth,) because certain prints
pr.mmeisat
labouring to write up the wisdom of the F
Mi-
nister, for having foreseen the wretched results of the
invasion, and for having avoided a war, because he
knew that a war would be unnecessary. His Grace
knew nosuch thing. His military calculations, in this
instance, were as completely baffled as his political
views have been in every other. We would there-
fore, at this moment, supplicate his Majesty's Mi-
nisters, while Turkey is formidable, and Russia
weakened, to regime, since they can do so with
impunity, the high tone which so well becomes
Great Britain; and which no English statesmen for
there 70 years have ever before abandoned. If they
now mediate seriously, and determine to be heard,
their mediation must•succeed. England, if she wills
it, is mistress of the Euxine. Russia, therefore,
cannot budge against the Porte' without her per-
mission. England can tell-Russia—and Russia must
obey—" You shall not gala an inch of Turkish ter,
ritory, nor shall you march•one regiment against any
point of the Turkish coast until you first give me
security for the consequences." We say that if a
British Government understood its duty, such would
be the language held to the Cabinet of St. Peters-
burgh. But another part of the duty of Great
Britain would be, to provide an absolute freedom
of commerce, on behalf of Russia, from the Euxine
into the Levant. The Duke of Wellington and the
interests of Europe have been saved on this occasion
by Turkish energy, not by British wisdom.—Timex.

than with it, while Mr. Orator Lawless denounces it
as an ex parts Proclamation, directed exclusively
against the Catholic agitators, and not at all against
the Protestant Constitutional Associations formed
for the purpose of counteracting them. The ora-
tors are both right in their construction of the Pro-
clamation, for it intimates clearly enough the deter-
mination of Ministers to govern Ireland henceforth
without the aid of Mr. Shed and his colleagues;
and it is so far ex parts as to distinguish the enemies
of Government from its friends, in a manner which
neither can misunderstand.— Morning Post.
It is seldom, we trust, that we bring ourselves
immediately before our readers as possessing any
exclusive claims to their confidence for the sound-
ness of our opinions, or the early nature of our com-
munications. Our readers are better judges of these
matters than ourselves, and • to them we fearlessly
leave the task of appreciating what little merit we
may be entitled to on these grounds; but when a
cotemporary, with an audacity which only finds a
parallel in the pages of the first political quack of
the day, and a contempt of truth which is only to
he
matched in the same veracious annals, puts forth
pretensions
to - which it -has- no title, and deals
trt sarcasms which have no foundation in fact,
becomes almost a public duty to strip the piti-
ful creature of its borrowed plumage, and con-
sign it to the oblivion fron- which it attempts
to escape by
such disreputable means. Those
who have honoured us by a perusal of our
columns since the breaking out of the war between
Turkey and Russia, arc fully aware that we never,
even for one moment, despaired of the cause of the
former—that we have represented the enterprize of
Russia as fraught with as great danger to herself as
it was ambitious and unprincipled towards her allies
—that we dese ibed the war as essentially different
in its nature !rom a war between nations professing
the same religions faith; and.that, forming our. judg-
ment
of the probable result from the amount of mili-
tary force which Russia could bring to bear upon
the Turkish frontiers—the difficulties which she
would have to encounter from the nature of the
country, the national antipathy of the Turks, and
the determined and sagacunis - character of the reign-
ing
Sultan, we have always said that the Russians„,
nor • •
would neither reach Constantinople, Cross the
. • •.
Balkan, during the present year. The event ha • h la
every respect answered our expectations--the Itus-
sians are already in full retreat, and have by this
time, in all probability, recrossed the Danube. We
take no merit to ourselves, however, for having prog-
nosticatcd a result which must have been apparent
to every one who chose to devote the same riven-
tiou to the subject that we . have.paid to it ; but
mark how a Morning Journal lauds itself for the
just
claims prescience, and throws aside the more
claims of - others to the stone intelligence. " We
have," 'says • it, " been sometimes accused by
our more Wary, because less informed, cunt empo-
rarics, of making too bold assertions, and we admit
that, in the state of their .knowledge, the language
which we have held from the beginning of the con-
test between the Russians and the Torks might not
unreasonably appear bold. So Minch had been said,

The price of the best bread now is 13(1. the
quarter') loaf; some time since the .price Was only
N. Here is a rise of nearly :30 per cent. What.
will Daniel Hurdcastle say to this • rise of i)0 per
rent. in • what he calls. prices, when, according to
Daniel, there was rather a decrease than increase of
currency? Or'what will the talented Editor (as he
calls himself) of a Morning Paper say, who, when
he had used to insert Daniel's king articles in the
Morning Paper in questitma,;directed the attention
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of his readers to them, and called them " most able by almost all that :had spoken en the subject, of
(
attielcsr This, unexpected . rise in the Price of the immense power, and still more immense ria-
" things," as the writers on currency have it, has sources, of the Emperor of all the Rtissias, the
completely proved that the currency writers have discipline and appointment of his troops, the skill
been wrong in their data—for they all wrote on the of his Generals, and, above all, the wisdom
subject of currency as if medium was used for and gallantry of the magnanimous Nicholas him-
eatables and drinkables only;—they forgot that it self—and, on the other hand, so contemptible,
was equally wanted to carry on trade in houses, according to all accounts, were the armies, so
land, timber, manufactured goods, household furni- bungling the leaders, so ignorant the Ministers of the
Lure, and a vast variety of things. The daily trade Porte, and such was the ignorance and arrogance of
in funds alone is, probably, equal to the daily trade the Sultan, that he who did but insinuate or doubt
in wheat. We have heard some stockbrokers say of the success of their enemies, nay, he that he,j_
that the trade in English funds amounts to 300,0001. tated to believe that, in the course of a few months,
a day. This, multiplied by 300, for the days in the the crescent would be torn from the brows of the
weeks, amounts to 90,000,0004 And we have Queen of the East, never again to glitter there, was
also heard that the trade or returns in wheat do riot treated by all but ourselves as a dreamer." All this
exceed 100 millions a year. Now every oce knows is very fine and very imposing ; but it is, unfortu-
that currency is required as well for the buying arid nately for , the Morning Journal in question, not
selling of funds as it is for the buying and selling of true; and, if our cotemporary would condescend for.
wheat; and yet none of the writers on currency have once to take counsel from us, we would advise him to
alluded to Funds at all as being an article of traffic make that the prominent characteristic of his converse
requiring currency.—Morning Herald. with the public. Quackery and falsehood never yet
succeeded, either in increasing the respectability or
The Duke of Wellingtsn and Mr. Secretary Peel
th circul of a aper, and i appear to have excited the anger of all the Whig
and Radical Journals of this country by their silence toe whichatio wen allude , wnews econfiderlyin
anttheicipatednstance a
upon the subject of the Catholic Claims, whilst the change of principle as well as a change ;of name.—
Irish Government have in an equal degree offended Morning Advertiser.
the Agitators by a proclamation which speaks in Ire-
land—where it had become necessary that the voice
of authority should be raised--a language which
they no longer affect to misunderstand. The grate-
ful thanks of the British nation are due and will be
paid to every individual member of the present Ad-
ministration, for maintaining as they have done, in
circumstances which offered no ordinary temptations
to deviate into an opposite_course, that prudent and
stately reserve which is no less conducive to the
efficiency than it.is essential to the dignity of Go-
vernment. The country has had some experience
of Ministers who thought it no derogation to them-
selves or to their office to coquet with party writers,
to wage war with pathphleteers, or to chatter in
clubs; and this experience has not -tended .to
give any place in popular estimation to va-
nity, petulance, or garrulity in the list of Mi-
nisterial 1-virtues. The leading Members of
Administration have openly, fully, and freely, at no
remote period, arid in the face of the assembled Le-
gislature, -expressdd their opinions, and unfolded the
principles by which their future conduct will be go-
verned with reference to the Catholic Question. To

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-lIOUSE.—A tall athletic man, named
Minnifie, and another person, were charged with having
excited two drunken men to fight on Saturday even-
ing, at about eight o'clock, at a place near Tower-hill,
called Barking- church-yard, and Mr. Minnifie was charg-
ed with having himself shown off in the pugilistic art,
when the drunken men were prevented from indulging
the crowd.
Mr. Drinkald, and other gentlemen of the neighbour-
hood, were, it appeared, obliged to interfere for the pro-
tection of the peace of the vicinity, in which several hun-
dred persons collected to witness a fight. The pugilists
were luckily i❑ such a state as to be unable to do each other
Nunn. The fighters had been brought to animosity by
glasses of gin which had been supplied to them by some
" gemmen" who wanted to see the fun, and to fight them-
selves if they could.find an opportunity. The defendants
were amongst them. Several rounds were 'ought, and the
combatants did very little mere than pull each other's hair,
and hug like two bears until they tumbled. The fall was,
however, a signal for very unmanly dealing. Tl►e unfor-
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tuuate pugilists the moment they " bit the dust," were as-
sailed with kicks in the ribs and faces, and victory must
soon have been declared in favour of the mob that sur •
rounded them, were it not for a gentleman named Christie
and Mr. Drinkald, who interfered to prevent the drunken
men being kicked to death. Mr. Christie, seeing Mr.
Minnifie very busy in stimulating the battle, rushed be-
tween the fighters, and said that they should fight no mere;
whereupon Mr. Minnifi'e clinched his fists, held them up to
Mr. Christie's face, threatened to " sarve him out," and
endeavoured to intimidate him from taking any part in the
settlement of the quarrel. This sort of intimidation did
not answer. After having been severely knocked about
and bruised, the pugilists were "shoved into their clothes,"
and the fight was terminated. Mr. Drinkald saw the de-
fendant, Mr. Minnifie, most active in the crowd. That
gentleman, upon finding that there was a disposition to
peace, and that the two drunken men seemed willing
enough, after being so well kicked, to shake hands, began
to raise a fresh row, and seeing a looker.on quietly regard-
ing the matter, dealt hint such a clout in the eye as sent
him several yards into the street, where he lay motionless
for some time. This did not satisfy the assailant. He
looked about for more customers of the same kind, and see-
ing several, he flung his fists at them, and soon had multi-
tudes around him prostrate. Mr. Drinkald described the
conduct of this hero of Barking church-yard as violent and
unfair in the extreme.
Alderman FAREBROTHER condemned the conduct of
Mr. Minnifie. He considered it extremely unfair in that
gentleman to put himself into the place of one of the fallen
pugilists, after they had retired from the.field, and to dual
Isis blows amongst the uneffending multitude. His Wor-
ship asked what the other defendant did.
It was stated that the other defendant felt offended at the
interruption to the fight, made a great noise, and swore at
the people ; but was too drnuk to knock any body down.
He, however, fell down himself.
The ALDICRMAN ordered that the harmless defendant
should pay ss. for being drunk, and that Mr. Minnifie,
who had done such execution in the crowd, should enter
into recognizances to keep the peam.
A man who said his name was Wilson, but whose real
name is Cox, was charged under the following cir-
cumstances:—

A clerk in the house of Messrs. Muggridge and Co.
stated, that the pri.oner came to the house and presented a
piece of paper, purporting to be an order from a Mr•
Curtis for three reams of paper. The witness suspected
that the order was a forgery, but ordered that the paper
should be made up. This was done, but the prisoner,
who evidently suspected that all was not right in the
opinion of the house, made some excuse for going away
without taking the paper, which, however, he had moved
from one part of the premises to another. The witness
secured him. The pretended order was signed "E. Em-
mett," for T. Curtis.

Alderman FAREBROTIIEK (to witness.)—Were you de-
ceived by this order ?
The witness hesitated.—He certainly knew it not to be
real, and he would not have given the goods upon it.
Alderman FAREBROTHEK-Then the charge falls to the
ground. It was an attempt to impo`o upon you, but it
did not succeed ; you were not deceived.
Mr. Holler agreed in this view of the question.
The prisoner said he had got the order from a man
whom he never saw before. He was remanded.

BOW-STREET.—Yesterday a fashionably dressed
young man, who refused to :give his name, Was placed at
the bar before Sir IL BIRNIE, charged capitally with
having stolen two gold watches and a gold seal from the
sale-room of Messrs. Robins, Piazza, Covent-garden.

Mrs. Jane Kelly deposed, that she has the care of
Messrs. Robins's sale-rooms. On Friday morning last,
about 10 o'clock, a variety of goods, consisting of watches,
jewellery, wearing apparel, being unredeemed pledges,
was exhibited for inspection in one of the show rooms. She
observed the prisoner in the room, and knew that he was
i❑ the pawnbroking business, but could not tell his name.
The prisoner was looking over the goods, and she took
little notice of him. To the best of her belief no other
stranger was in the room at the time. In a short time Mr.
Bentley, of Cavendish-square, a dealer in curiosities, came
into the room, and referring to the catalogue, desired to be
shown a gold watch. The foreman went to the place
where the watches were deposited, and found that two of
them were missing. The foreman asked who had been in
the room, and witness answered bydescribingthe prisoner's
person, as he did not know his name.

Mr. Jupp, a pawnbroker, in the Borougb„prodaegd two
gold watches, hie house on Friday hist. Witness
lent 151. upon one of the watches, and 71. upon the other.
The prisoner was the person who pawned the watches. He
gave the name of John Jones, and stated that he lived at
No. 12, Union-row, Kent-road. "Witness at first refused
to lend more than 201. on both watches, but the prisoner
said be had a bill to pay amounting to 211. 17s. 6d., and
he must obtain the amount be required. Believing him to
be a respectable man, witness consented to lend the money.
Mr. Dicker, pawnbroker, of Charlotte-street, Lambeth-
marsh, deposed, that on Friday morning, about 12 o'clock,
the prisoner brought the watches now produced to his shop,
and.dernanded 22/. upon them. Witness at first offered to
advance 201. on the watches ; but having spoken to the
prisoner respecting them, declined having coy thing to do
with them.

Sir R.• Bramr. asked if any person was present who
could identify the watches as having been in the show-room
of Messrs. Robins on the morning in question ?
Mr. Robins said it unfortunately happened that the fore-
man, who alone could give evidence to that effect, had gone
down to the country to attend a sale, which would probably
last until Friday -next.
A young man in the service of Mr. Harrison, pawn-
broker, Tottenham-court-road (where the prisoner was last
employed), stated, that on Wednesday or Thursday last he
delivered the watches now produced to a porter of Messrs.
Robins.
Sir R. Bram): asked Mr. Jupp if he was quite certain
the prisoner was the person by whom the watches had been
pawned? Mr. Jupp—l have no doubt of it. However,
I should like to see the prisoner with his hat on.
Prisoner—There is no use in that. I acknowledge my-
self to be tl.e person : I have committed the offence, and
there is no use in concealing my guilt.
Sir R. Bixstry. cautioned the prisoner against criminat-
ing himself. " Have you any thing to say," he added,
4, that you think may serve you ; if so, I will hear you
willingly."
The case was then- remanded for a week, in order to
give time for the production of Messrs. Robins's foreman.
When the prisoner was about to be removed, he applied
to have his purse restored to him, which the officer (young
Bond) had secured when he took him into custody.
As the purse contained only three sovereigns and a few

shillings, Sir R. tinsirE desired tont! to ristote it to the
prisoner ; obServing, that although the money was no
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He was then removed from the bar, and conveyed to the
lock-up-place at the rear of the office, where Bond, jun.,
who had observed something strange in his manner, followed
for the purpose of cautioning Ford the gaoler not to leave
any instrument of self-destruction in hie way.
The office's; accordingly returned to the room where the
prisoner was confined by himself. Ile was found with his
cravat off searching in a bundle which contained a razor,
and there is no doubt that, but for the timely appearance
of the officers, he would have cut his throat. He acknow-
ledged that such had been his object, and said that nothing
should alter his determination to commit suicide by some
means or other.
The prisoner, it appears., is very reputably connected, but
having unfortunately connected himself with a girl of the
town, and having lost his situation at Mr. Harrison's, of
Tottenham-court-road, .he resorted to the desperate expe-
dient of raising money by fraud and robbery. It is be-
lieved that Mr. Harrison, with whom he last lived, and
another pawnbroker,
,with whom he had lived previously,
had lost goods to a considerable amount, supposed to have
been stolen by the prisoner. A great number of duplicates
for property, chiefly consisting of jewellery, were found at
the lodgings of the girl with whom lie had cohabited, in
Bond-street, at the Surrey side of Waterloo-bridge.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Yesterday a very re-
spectable-looking man, most fashionably dressed, named
Archibald Lung, a journeyman tailor by trade, but who
had much more the appearance of a Bond-street lounger,
residing at No. 2, Seymour-ereseent, Euston-square, was
brought before Sir GEORGE FARRANT, the sitting Magis-
trate, in custody of Goddard, the officer, upon the following
singular charge :
Charles Barton, Esq., a gentleman residing in Baker-
street, Portman-square, on the 3d of this month was making
some purchases at the warehouse of Sir. Newman, oil and
colourman in Soho-square, and while there he took out of
his pocket, amongst other money, a 40/, note of the Bank
of England, and held it for some time loose with his gloves
in one of his hands, while with the other he selected the
articles lie was about to purchase ; hut when he had con-
cluded his selection, he forgot the 401. note altogether, and
it remained still in his hand when lie quitted the shop, nor
did he think anything more of it until he reached home,
when he missed it front his possession. At first he thought
it possible that he mightsiblive left it on Mr. Newman's
counter, in which case he knew it would have been quite
safe ; but when lie returned there, which he did imme-
diately, he found that he hail not been so fortunate as to
have left it there. This happened about five o'clock in the
evening, just as it was getting dark, and it was then too
late to take any measure' for stopping or tracing the note
at the Batik of England ; the next morning, however, he
went to hie own banker's, in the city, from whom lie had
received the Mite, and there ascertained the number sif it,
which he did not before know, and he then proceeded to
the Bank of England, where he stopped payment of the
note, and left his address. On Tuesday last he went to
Epsom, and did not return until last Sunday, when he
found a notice from the Bank of England, informing him
that the note had been stopped at the Bank ; and yesterday
morning he went there, when they gave him the names of
Messrs. Jones, Lloyd, and Co., the bankers, as the per-
sons who had paid the note into the Bank of England ;
and at the house of Messrs. Jones, Lloyd, and Co., he
learned that they received it from Mr. Shoolleread, a
woollen-draper, in Tottenham-court-road, and Mr. Shoot-
bread informed him, that the prisoner was the person of
whom be had received it. He (Mr. Barton) then came
to this office, and procured Goddard, the officer, to accom-
pany hint in calling on the prisoner, who, however, refused
to give any account of how he became possessed of the note.
Goddard said, that he accompanied Mr. Barton to the
prisoner's lodgings in Seymour-crescent, and they first saw
the prisoner's wife, who told them that the prisoner was
not at home ; but they watched about the house, and in a
little time they saw the prisoner—who answered the de-
scription given of Isis person by Mr. Schoolbread—come
'from the house, and Mr. Barton went up to him and asked
him if his name was not Lang, and lie replied that it was.
They then questioned him about the 401., but he refused
to give any account of it, and said that he did not consider
himself under any obligation to Jo so. They tken brought
the prisoner to this office, and. locked him up, while he
(Goddard) went back again to the prisoner's residence, and
got the keys of some drawers from the prisoner's wife, in
which, upon opening them, he found two 51. notes of the
Bank of England and one sovereign, and on the prisoner's
person he finmil another sovereign and is. in silver. In
the drawers he also found x quantity of cloth, which it ap-
peared the prisoner had purchased at Mr, Shoolbread's in
changing the note.
Sir G. Fa aassiT asked the prisoner if he would now
think proper to give any account of how lie became pos-
sessed of the 40/. note ?—The prisoner had not the slightest
objection to tell where be got it: the fact, he said, was,
that on the 3d of this month, about five o'clock in the
afternoon, as he was turning out of Sutton-street into
Soho-square, on the left hand side, he saw something that
appeared to lie silver paper lying on the foot pavement close
to the iron-railing, and on picking it up he found to his
great joy that it was a 401. note of the Bank of England ;
and it was true that he did change it in purchasing the
cloth produced at Mr. Shcolbread's.
" And did it never occur to you," asked Sir G. FAR-
RANT, of the prisoner, " to advertise the note in the news-
papers?"—" Why," said the prisoner, " it certainly 'Rid
occur to me to advertise it ; but the truth is, I had not the
means of paying for an advertisement at the time, I was so
very poor. I had been nearly three months out of work,
and 1 had been obliged to pledge almost every article I had
to support my family."
Sir G. FaitnANT asked the •prisoner whom he had ever
worked for in London as a tailor, and he replied, that he
had worked for Mr. Rolfe, a master tailor in Dean-street,
Soho-square, who still occasionally employee! him ; hut. for
three months business had been so very slack, that there
was scarcely any work to be done. He was going he said
to call on Mr. Rolfe to ask for work at the very time that
he picked up the 401. note.
Sir G. FARRANT said, that surely if the prisoner had,
as he should have done, told Mr. Rolfe of his having found
the note, Mr. Rolfe would no doubt have readily ad-
vanced him sufficient money to pay for an advertisement ;
but besides, there was nothing easier than to get the note
changed, as it appeared he hail in fact done, and apply
part of the amount to paying for the advertisements, which
the owner would he very glad afterwards to allow, and no
doubt give a handsome reward to the finder into the bargain.
The prisoner said, that perhaps he ought to have ad-
vertised the note, but he had done otherwise.

" Yes, so it seems you have, indeed," said the Magistrate.
The prisoner considered he had a right to the note or
any thing else that he might find, and in fact be looked
upon it at the time he picked it up as having been sent to
him by Providence to relieve his distress ; if, however, he
had erred, it was through ignorance,' and not dishonesty;
for be never had been guilty of a dishonest act in his life,
as all who knew him could testify, nor was be ever for a
moment in custody before this occasion, and it pained him
very much to have been locked up in a cell with a parcel
of vagrants and other filthy people as he had been since he
was brought to the office, which he thought a very unne-
cessary severity ; he was ready, he said, to give Mr. Bar-
ton up all the money that was left of the note, about 13/.,
and the cloth he had purchased at Mr. ShoOlbread's.
Sir G. FARE ANT asked him what be had done with the
rest of the money ?--Ife replied, that he had laid it out in
redeeming some of the things he had pledged : for instance,
the suit of clothes he had on, and in paying some debts ;
the hat lie wore, too, he bought out of it; but he hoped
Mr. Barton would not take that away; indeed, even now
he thought he had a right to something for finding the note.
Sir G. FARRANT said not at all; he was entitled to
nothing after the manner in which lie had acted ; he must
have known that he had no right to keep another person's
propel ty because he found it in the streets, at all events
without using every means to find out the owner.
Goddard said that the prisoner's wife appeared to have a
great many new dresses.
The prisoner said that the dresses were not purchased
out Of the note, but only redeemed out of pawn.
Sir. G. FaeitANT asked the prisoner what countryman
he was? lie replied that he was a native of Edinisurgh,
where lie had once been living very r'spectably.
Sir GEORGE asked him if he could give any security for
the payment of the rest of the money to Mr. Barton ? The
prisoner really could not; for although his friends were re-
spectable, they were, like himself, very poor.
After a good deal of negotiati",
by the advice of the
Magistrate, between the prisoner and Mr. Barton, through
tile medium of Goddard, Mr. Barton consented in the end
to accept of the money
remaining unspent and the piece
of cloth, in all amounting to about ISt, and submitted to
the loss of the remainder. The prisoner was consequently
discharged.
Goddard said that the prisoner's landlord certainly gave
him a very good character, and said that he had lodged
with him four years.

QUEEN-SQUARE.—Yesterday Edward Allen, a
servant out of place, was brought up in custody before
Mews. GnEGoittit and WHITE, charged with endeavour..