The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-31 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

Yesterday Geo rielFliker, JOsWizMoines, Henry Turner,
James Ayres, John Bush, and James Seabrooke, six well-
dressed boys whose ages varied from 13 to 16 years, were
finally examined before Mr. Bingham, charged with having
assaulted and wounded Mr. Charles Grills, a tea-dealer, living
in Sherwood-place, Bethnal-green.
Between three and four o'clock in the afternoon of Wed-
nesday, the 17th instant, as the brother of the prosecutor, a
boy 14 years of ago, was engaged in cleaning the outside of
the shop window, he was suddenly. surrounded and assailed
by the prisoners, one of whom snatched a handkerchief out of
his hand and ran away with it. On observing their conduct
the prosecutor came out of the shop, and endeavoured to re-
cover the handkerchief, upon which the prisoners simu.-
taneously attacked him, and after striking him several times
about the head and face they dragged him to the ground,
and continued beating him until he became insensible. He
was rescued from further violence by some of his neighbours,
who found him bleeding profusely from the ears; nose, and
mouth, and carried him home apparently lifeless. .
In their defence the prisoners, who displayed throughout
the most unbecoming levity, admitted that they were all
present on the occasion ; but • each of them endeavoured to
exonerate himself at the expense of the others.
Mr. BINGHAM said that it was far too serious a case for
summary adjudication, and he should therefore commit the
prisoners for trial at the ensuing Clerkenwell sessions.
CHARITY.—The Magistrate announced the receipt of 21.
as a donation to the poor-box, from L.N.
LAMBETH-STREET.

Yesterday Alexander Deirken, a herculean-built German,
was brought before Mr. Henry, and charged with committing
a desperate assault upon the person of William Frederick
Bathbone, a countryman of his.
From the evidence it appeared that the parties were fellow-
workman, and that, having a dispute, the prisoner struck
the complainant with a poker, and inflicted three severe.
wounds on his head.

Mr. HENRY, after remarking upon the violence of the de-
fendant, convicted him in the full penalty of 5/., or t*o
months' imprisonment.
The prisoner, having paid the money, was discharged.
UNION-HALL.

Yesterday William Holder, a respectable-looking man, tra-
veller and collector, in the employment of Messrs. Flockton
and Co., the tar and turpentine distillers of Bermondsey, was
brought before Mr. Traill, charged with embezzling various
sums of money, the property of the firm.
Edward Symonds stated that he was cashier in the above
firm, and that the prisoner had been in their employ for the
last twelve months, as collector, and that it was his duty to
have paid over all sums of money he received for his em-
ployer on the day following that on which he received them.
The witness added, that of late it was discovered that tb e
prisoner had collected various sums of money of the cus=
tourers, which he had not accounted for, and on subsequent
inquiries, it was ascertained that he had converted them to
his own purposes.
These facts were proved, and the prisoner, who said nothing

in his defence, was Committed. -
Thomas Sparkes, shopman to a pawnbroker in the New-
cut, Lambeth. was charged with stealing 40/., the property
of his employer.
It appeared that the prisoner had been discharged from
his situation in the month of October, but was still in the
habit of calling occasionally to see some of the inmates. On
Monday evening, the 22d instant, he called at the com-
plainant's house, and shortly after his departure it was found
that a bag containing 401., in gold and silver, and deposited
in a drawer up stairs, had been emptied of its contents. The
prisoner being suspected, he was subsequently taken into
custody at Folkestone, and a portion of the stolen money
found in his possession, together with a watch belonging to
his employer.—He was committed.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.

TlMES..—Everybody is looking forward with anxiety
to the Queen's speech, and thinking that it must neces-
sarily contain an explicit declaration of Ministerial in-
tentions. For our own parts, we are inclined to believe
that the forthcoming speech from the Throne will dis-
appoint public curiosity, just as mach as many of its
predecessors have done. Looking, indeed, to the as-
pect of the times—the partially developed plans of public
men and parties, and especially to the habitual caution
of the Premier—we are much dispcsed to think that in-
dications of his future policy will be especially avoided
in the Queen's speech. Advantage will doubtless be
taken of the unexampled peace—and the prospect of
continued peace—by which our foreign relations are
now happily distinguished. The sentiments of Louis
Philippe towards England may be gracefully recipro-
cated towards France, in Queen Victoria's ad-

dress to an English Parliament. Nor will her Ma-
jesty's Ministers fail to express their grateful thanks
for the blessings of an increasing revenue and a re-
viving trade. These are tangible benefits, which a na-
tion fuels more quickly, and acknowledges more readily,
than the fruits of the most profound speculative legisla-
tion. Of Ireland we apprehend that little will be said ;
silence on the subject of its evils and their remedies
will be justified by the prosecutions which are pending
and the commission which is sitting. Nor will our ex.
pectations be disappointed if, after all, there is not one
syllable about the corn-law. This silence may be ex-
plained by the caution of the Minister, the previous in-
activity of the agriculturists, and the divisions among
the diffarent advocates of free trade. But though there
be no mention of th.se topics in the Queen's Speech, we
do not doubt but that the Queen's Ministry will speak
out in response to the pressure of the Opposition. There
will be no excuse for silence or for ambiguity afforded
either by the moderation of their foes or the complais-
ance of their friends ; and we have seen no indication of
solicitude to conciliate the former, or to play into the
hands of the latter.

ADVERTISER.—It is confidently reported that Mr.
Roebuck means to move an amendment to the address.
We hope the report will prove correct. It will be
strange indeed if her Majesty's speech be so satisfactory
to the country as to cut away all ground. for amend-
ment ; and it will be a grave reflection on the patriotism
of the Liberal Members of the House of Commons if, in
the event of sn amendment being needed, there should
be none to undertake the performance of so important a
duty. Rather than have such an important duty left
undone, we would willingly accept the services of even
Mr. Roebuck. We have not heard the precise nature of
the rumoured amendment ; but we are informed it re-
lates to the inexpediency of any longer upholding the
Church Establishment in Ireland. We hope our in-
formation is correct. A more popular amendment
could not be moved. The Church of England, " as
by law established," is one of the monster evils of
Ireland. It is the daily source of infinite mischief.
The idea of the religion of 400,000 being made the es-
tablished religion of a country in which there is a popu-
lation of 8,000,000, is one of those things which con-
found all refltcting men by the very perfection of their
audacity. It is not merely that sixteen Catholics are
compe'led to pay for the support of the religion of one
Protestant; but that these Catholics are forced to sub-
mit to the gratuitous insults which are daily offered to
themelves and their religion by this one Protestant,
he possessing all the power and importance which
invariably belong to those who have the law on
their side. All who have reflected on the state of

Ireland, must have been struck with the prominen
part which the Established clergy have played in the
drama of that country's wrongs. We are satisfied
that, the extinction of the Church of England, as an
Established Church in Ireland, would go far to tran-
quillise that unhappy country. It is the eye-sore to
nineteen-twentieths of the population; for the Presby-
terians of Ulster, and the Independents, Baptists, and
Wesleyan Methodists scattered throughout the other
provinces, are now beginning to regard the Episcopal
Establishment in Ireland with quite as much aversion as
the Roman Catholics themselves. Its destruction would,
therefore, give the greatest satisfaction to the people of
that country=to all in it with the exception of the small
minority whose clergy live by the plunder of the large
majority. The Minister who will have the sense of jus-
tice and the moral courage to bring in a measure for
laying the Irish Church in the dust, will thereby make
himself the most popular Minister whom modern times
have produced. Will Sir Robert Peel earn that dis-
tinction? Is he the man whom the emergency in Irish
affairs requires ? We shall see. In the mean time, it
is to be hoped that no squeamish delicacy—no false no-
tions of respect for the Sovereign, will prevent any Libe-
ral Member from giving his most hearty and strenuous
support to the rumoured amendment of Mr. Roebuck.
It will have been observed, from an advertisement
which has repeatedly appeared in our paper, that a tea
meetin of those in favour of Complete Suffrage is to
take p#ce this evening in the Crown and Anchor. The
attendance, we have no doubt, will be numerous : as
little doubt is there that the intellectual entertainment
will be of no common order. The meeting, it is ex-
pected, will be graced by the attendance of several of
the most distinguished of the Liberal Members of the
House of Commons. Such meetings do good. They
bring the friends of the principles for whose promotion
the meetings take place, into close and kindly contact,
and create a feeling of cordiality which enables them
afterwards to act more harmoniously together. The
Complete Suffrage cause is making some, though com-
paratively silent progress. Its principles are steadily
making their way in all parts of the land. They are
penetrating the remotest corners of the kingdom. We aro
confident the meeting of to-night will give a new and sen-
sible impetus to the cause. The time is well chosen: it is the
eve of the day on which the Legislature re-assembles. It is,
moreover, a time in which past disappointments in all
other quarters whence the people had looked for help,
have driven large masses of our countrymen who were
strongly opposed to extensive changes in the suffrage,
to the conclusion, that nothing but a completeness of the
suffrage, approximating to universal, will successfully
cope with the evils of the country. There cannot be a
doubt that the session of Parliament which commences
to-morrow, Will witness great political changes. We
are not so sanguine as to anticipate that any very great
accession of new adherents to the Complete Suffrage
movement will be made within the walls of Parliament;
but we do expect that there will be large reinforcements
to the ranks of the CoMplete Suffragists out of doors,
through the • proceedings which will take place in
connexion with the question on the floor of the
House of Commons. The more the subject is
mooted, the more it will gain—the more it is
agitated, and the more the claims of the movement party
are canvassed, the greater will be the progress of the