The Sun.
London, England, 1826-11-07 00:00:00

mingled their coronets with the foraging caps of
prowling adventurers. ,We feel shame for another
House, that, like a place mentioned in ancient
,seenia to require .a new Hercules to cleanse away
its impurities. But no Judge has allowed his name to
be contaminated by intermixture with the vile specula-
tions of human credulity, that have exhausted the'
pockets and desolated the morals of the people. This
fact is hi lily ereditable'to the judicial character of the
present day, when Peers, Statesmen, Senators, and
Churchmen, have leaned with, or become the tools of
the meanest of mankind, and sharedin the dirty pro-
duce of their sordid occupation, • What can be more
griev-ous than.to behOld the plague-spot of mercenary
fraud infecting the classes of society that one might
have thought would have been most inviolate—the
Constitutional guardians of the public morality ? But
if Chief Justice
.Best thinks it only his duty to speak
in terms of suchsevere condemnation of those who
have lent their names to the joint-stock frauds, what,
language would he find sufficiently strong to express
his indignation of the infamous men who contrived
those things—whii invented the false evidence to give
thein body and colour—as well as those Who aided the
deception by inserting in venal newspapers the lying
articles that, like the oracles of evil,' inflicted on the
credulous people a deplorable infatuation ? The race
of highwaymen who alarmed our forefathers, appears
to be extinct, but the generation of swindlers has mul-
tiplied beyond all former example. There is no spoil
divided now on Bagshot or -Hounslow Heaths. A
more " genteel" and extensive species of robbery is
now practised in the broad day, and in the most po-
pulous parts of the Metropolis. The " operators" are
better off in all respects than the gentlemen who used
to take " to the road," and finish their romantic his-
tory at Tyburn—for the Joint Stock plunderers are se-
cured against the gibbet, and hardened against dis-
grace.—Morning Herald.
The public will learn, with surprise, that a patent,
for the constituting a new Board of Stamps, is at
length issued. Mr. Stewart, a brother of Lord Gal-
loway, is appointed Chairmen ; the names of the
other Members are, Mr. Saurin, Mr. Boden, Mr.
Tornton, Mr. W. B. Montagne, Mr. S. Montague,
and Mr. Richard Wellesley. It is rumoured that
there is to be a Deputy-Chairman, as at the, two other
BoardS, but who is to fill that office we have not
learned. We understand that this extraordinary mea-
sure will be taken up early in the ensuing Parliament,
as a very general feeling preYails throughout the
kingdom, that the whole originated 'in a pre-deter-
mination, on the part of the Scotch faction, to
deter any Englishmen, in future, from setting his
foot as a reformer on the other side of the Tweed.
And Mr. Sedgwick, the Chairman of the Stamp
Board, is to be held out as an example in terrorem,
to every man under Government, who, if sent
to look into the state of any. Revenue Office
there, shall dare to report the truth as he .finds it.
If any measure ever deserved 'to be well sifted by Par-
liament, it is the most extraordinary one which has
here been taken. What Englishman holding office in
this country is safe, if he is to lie at the mercy of any
Scotchman in power, who, with three or four col-
leagues that shall be appointed to act with him,, may,
under tl'e cover of a Parliamentary Inquiry, which is
in the nature of a Grand Jury, get a sentence passed
upon him without even the emu of trial, and sacrifice
him upon the spot ? Mr. Sedgwick increased the
Stamp Revenues, ass he has proved unanswerably,
60,0001. a-year by the rascality which lie rooted
out in the short space of even a few weeks' in-
quiry ; and then comes the Melville influence to put
it all back again ; and while the people of England
are taxed till they don't know which way to turn them-
' selves to get wherewithal to satisfy the pressing and
eternal demands of the tax-gatherers, this honest ser-
vant of the public is worked out of office for having
prevented the burthens of his country from being in-
. creased, and its starving population being still further
ground down to Maki up the deficiency in the Reve-
nue created by •Seotelt frauds and Scotch evasions.
Gracious God ! Talk of the writings of such men as
Tom Paine and Carlisle, we will tell Mr. Wallace and
the Melvilles that this single proceeding of theirs will
make more Radicals than all their labours put together.
We have no very high
,opinion of " my Lords" of
the Treasury where there is a job in hand. But we.
confess it does surprise us, and we know it surpris4
even the professed friends of Lord Liverpool, that he
should have made himself a party in an act so ordi-
narily unconstitutional as that which the country has
here witnessed, and this too when the real motives are
now matter of public notoriety, and when the manner
in Which Mr. Wallace has conducted his inquiry has
excited a cry of " Shame ! Shame !" wherever the
Chaair.tp4
every part an's letters have reached—and they have
reached
of the kingdom.—Morning
. 1
hronicle,

MURDVR AT----
CAM.fni...""On Monday last Jan
Ray, of Carlisle, labourer, was to Carbide gaol,
charged on the verdict of a Coroner's inquest, wit!! tlif wilful
murder of Jane Myers, widow of the late well-known Iti!wrt
Myers, chimney-sweeper; with whom he improperly cohabited,
although her age was nearly seventy years, and his owu nut unioh
above forty. it appeared on the inquiry before the City Coroner,
that on the night of Saturday the 21st of October, the prisoner
and others, men and women, were in Myers'e room, in Ritson's
Lane, drinking whiskey, when some angry words arose between
Myers and Ray in consequence of her refusal to fetch any more
liquor. After this, all the parties left the room except the pri-
soner, the deceased, and a girl of the town, named Draper. no
latter immediately went to bed in the apartment. Ray recurred
to the deceased's refusal to get the whiskey ; and not setistied with
using abusive and threatening language, be promptly followed up
his threats by knocking the poor old woman off her chair, and
while lying on the floor lie violently kicked her in various parts
of the body, end dragged her about the room by her apt, So.
The poor woman cried out that he was murdering her; and
Ray repeatedly declared, in effect, that 'he would take her.
life. Draper got a light. Ray had by, this time placed
Myers in a chair, and bad hold of her, according to the evidence,
one band, to her mouth, and the other at her neck, as if attempt-
ing to wrangle her, At this moment; the persons who had pre-
viously been in the room, returned and knocked at 'the door.—
Ray looked out it the window, and he told those below diet he
had done the old maimed business for her, and indulged in other
similar expressions. go then left the house, sad Myers
prisonergreat
turned. He went to Mynas bed, threw aside the curtains, and
unfeelingly asked her' how she was after the good licking he gait
her on the preceding night: lie also again indulged in language
amounting to a declaration that his intention bad been and was
to murder. The deceased kept her bed and grew worse ; but no
medical man was called in till within a few days before her death,
of her hotly,
oWhen_ the was visited by Mr. Graham, surgeon. He found marks
blows and swellings on her head, breasts, sides, and other
parts
and the patient laboured under strong fever, re-
sulting from the injuries she had received, and this - fever ternii-
nirillitAder l_itv". Mr. • Graham expressed an opinion, however, that
have provers had been obtained sooner, the blows would not
(bleed, corroborative ribs had bte`it"b)rritt as he subsequently found.that none of her
the Jury returned yielfrathe
by the kicks. Other evidence was pro-
prisoner's threatening language, and
let of " Wilful Murder." Ray has before
been in gaol on a 01,
".
cencerned, fact, are persona of theft—and rise whole of the _parties
habits. The infatuation of bad character an
Myers
hus-
band left her a competency ;d immoral
ris was extreme. bier late
ute reaped the bitter fruits of; preferred vice to
propriety,
and l
Cortirie Patriot,