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London, England, 1829-10-30 00:00:00

sPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

A second letter from the Bishop of Ferns to
Lord Mountcashel has been published by the
writer's authority. To us it really does not ap-
pear that the merits of the question—viz.
whether the Irish church establishment needs,
• or does not need, investigation, with a view to
reform,"—are placed upon any better footing by
the Bishop's reply, than by his original arida:6s
to his opponent. Dr. Elrington here displays,
indeed, somewhat more of the tincture of his ge-
Dcral politics than the former production had de-
veloped. He says, by way of deterring the
public from any attempt even to entertain the
subject of Church abuses, that the difference
between the present period and 1628, consists
in the greater tendency to revolution now, than
at that very critical period. " Great Britain, and
st'll more Ireland, is in a state infinitely more.
revolutionary than in 1628 ; nay, the state of
all Europe is revolutionary." We admit the
fact that the people of Ireland are in so far rho:•
revolutionary than in 1628, as there is more

knowledge spread amongst them, and a greal.4l
quick-sightedness to the grievances by which
they are at once pressed and insulted. If Europe
be revolutionary, or in other words desirous of
political change, it is a proof that the people
tnroughout Europe are weary of misgovernment,
and bent upon reform. Does Dr. Elrington
fancy that he will stop the course of such a.
spirit, or blunt men's perceptions of " the ills
they know," by telling them that all remedy ±;

replete with dauber wrtich " they know not of;"
and, in short, that the parties who pinch and
pillage the community must be left in the fill
enjoyment of their various monopolies of worldl7
goods until they themselves shall be pleased to give
spontaneously that redress which, when forced
upon them, Dr.Elrington designates by the none of
revolution ? If Europe were a little more Ted
volutionary —that is to say, if the efforts on be-
half of equal law and constitutional liberty hakl
been more successful than we have seen them oft

the continent of Europe,—the chance of cer-
reeting known abuses might, perhaps, have been
at this moment more favourable to men like
Lord Mountcashel. If Spain and Portugal had
got rid of their domestic enemies, and Italy of
her foreign yoke, those fine countries, like
France, would have gained representative Go-
vermnents of some sort or other ; and like France'
herself might have been justly congratulated oil
the final results of that " revolutionary" spirit
which is a matter of such grief or alarm to Dr.
Eirington. But how will the Reverend Bishop
encounter the peril which he assumes to exist
Why, by bringing his brethren of the Bench to
repair the evils which are, if not caused by their
own mal-administration, at least .continued old
fostered under it. He reprehends Lord Main('
castle] for not having first made his complaint
privately to the Bishops ! As if that were not
wild enough, he would send him (the Bishop
pisterrires
!)le'itation,
the Mi-
nir sotlelrntgu turning
the Noble Earl ought to seek an audience of the
refractory)
a dea
tof
ear the
t o Mthe representation,
King. And why not of the Duke of Cumber
land ? But never,—no, never,—but "in em.see
of the most extreme necessity," appeal to
opinion, or to the people, for the redress of
grievances. We have the misfortune to differ
froas the Reverend Bishop in his notion about
the order to be followed. To us it is clear that
he who seeks the bong fide removal of a gross
abuse, or a steady and strenuous inquiry into it,
ought to begin by engaging public opinion
on his side. The force of opinion is the
true and legitimate lever by which to act on
Kings and Ministers, even if Irish Bishops
should be proof against it. We almost doubt
whether the Executive Government be bound to
undertake reforms for which they have not previ.,
ously obtained the sanction of strong opinions from
a large body of enlightened men with stakes in the
country, and under pledges to support the medi-
tated amelioration. It is clear that on Dr.
Elrington's plan, the discussion between re-
formers and those who described them as " re-
volutionists," might and would be spun out till
doomsday ; and, in the mean time, that the
system of corruption among the higher classes,
and of neglect of duty, incompetency, and cu-
pidity in all, might work on, until some power
more eager to destroy the establishment than to
mend it would enter at the fitting opportunity,
and lay the whole edifice in ruins. Dr. Elring-
ton applauds the liberality of the Irish Clergy
for accepting from their parishioners less than
the " legal" amount of their tithes. His Lord-
ship was well answered by Lord Mountcashel
" that the Clergy took as much as they could
get ;" and that this is literally true will appear
from the condition to which the country has
been reduced, by the endeavours of the Clergy
to obtain through the tithe proctor, even that
" less than the legal right" with which the Bi-
shop boasts of their being satisfied. Why, the
processing wretched peasants for their tithes was,
until the Composition Act began to operate, the
chief (and most painful) business of the county
session ! The miserable being whose landlord
wrung from him a rent for which the tenant had

value, was still more repugnant, and
equally unable, to pay a tithe for which he had
no value at all. An unfortunate Clergyman of
the name of Going, brother to a gentleman who
had been murdered in the year 1822, was shot
last week within 40 yards of his own house, and,
as is distinctly stated in the accounts from Ire-
land, because of his severity in the exaction of

tithe, for non-payment of which he had just be-
fore distressed thirty-seven of his parishioners.
This state of things cannot continue. Nuin.
bers of the Protestant Clergy have become
odious to the people for exacting " less
than the law allows." How horrible is the
relation between landlord and tenant in Ire-
land, although the landlord insists on " no more
than the law allows him !" The trials not yet
concluded at Cork must do something, we ex-
pect, towards a fair elucidation of the feelings
which Irish landlords have purchased for them-
selves from the tenants on their estates, either by
administering as Magistrates, or in their private
capacity enforcing, laws which have been enacted
in a spirit of supposed partiality to the rich. Let
us not be imagined for a moment to insinuate
that the assassins of Mr. Going, or the sangui-
nary ruffians whose thirst for blood was to have
been whetted, not quenched, by that of Messrs.
Creagli, and Low, and Evans, ought not to be
visited with prompt and condign punishment.
But though hanged the murderers ought to be,
and must be, will the Legislature do nothing to
amend that state of the law or of society which
tends to the increase of murder ? We fear that
the community of country gentlemen in the
county of Cork, throughout that neighbourhood
which forms the scene of these terrible transac-
tions, is badly composed with reference to the
peasantry who surround them. We are told that
the country is thickly studded with "gentlemen,"
and that at the same time a high and intole-
rant Orange spirit reigns there. The close le-

ideixe, therefore, or the gentry but aggravatc;,
the disease ; and it is not only on direct
questions between Catholic and Protestant, as
3 ch, that the evil bearing of an Orange gentry
shows itself. With them the peasants, under
every form, are looked upon but as the " Irish
enemy" of old ; and there is not an occurrence
of lire, no matter how obliquely relative to more
formal matters of quarrel or alienation, which
does not give rise to some display of a spirit in
all its movements calculated to prolong and widen
the gulf by which the two hostile parties are se-
parated, In such a state of things, every con-
'Art betntitet a collision. Every offence, how-
:Wet. sitkall in itself, takes from the bad blood on
kmtlt sides a poisonous and mortal quality. Mr.
Low was to be put to death because " he was a
leading man in the county,"—a formidable
officer m the enemy's camp The plain infe-
rence is, therefore, that any of the peasantry
would, at a convenient time, consider it a part
of their public duty—an effort of acknowledged
patriotism and honour—to cut off any leading
country gentleman. Of course the weak, when
they act against the strong, will act through the
medium of a confederacy ; of course, also, when
4 barbarian is resolved on vengeance, he accepts
nothing short of his victim's death. We know
not of another country on earth where the ele-
ments of society are so fitted as in Ireland to
thwart and embarrass, instead of assisting, the
wisdom of its legislature and the justice of its
executive officers.—Times.

Though we would on no account be guilty of
the stoning rudeness of applying the words of
tenain old proverb to the " fallings out" of
*such eminent persons as Noble coal-owners on
the one hand, and the civic body of London on
the other, yet we are not without hopes that
their rivalry and bickerings may in the end be
qdrantageous to the community. We aided the
l'ormer by all the means in our power in bring-
ing the accounts of the latter before the House
of Lords, in the last Session ; and we should
now as readily aid the civic body in resisting the
alleged combination among the coal-owners in
keeping up the price of that necessary of life.
We were not without our suspicions at the time
as to the patriotic motives of those who declaim-
•ed so loudly against the civic tax on coals ; but
as any tax on such an article is in itself objec-
tionable, we readily join in the object, regard-
less of the motive. When the Duke of Wel-
lington was in the North, during the summer
before last, it was said that his Grace discovered
both the coal combination and the means to de-
feat it. As to the first, the Duke discovered no
more, we take it, than all the world knew before
him, and the revival of the combination in all
its vigour shews that, up to this time at at least,
the public are none the better off for the Duke's
discovery. This we are not sorry for, because
we are persuaded that trade, if let alone, is much
more likely to right itself than can be done by
airy legislative means. Combination is best
put down by competition ; and we are happy
to find, from what took place the other day in
the Court of Common Council, that there is
a competition arising from a new quarter, which
is likely to defeat the manccuvres of the patriotic
Nobility and Gentry who contrive to levy so
enormous a tax upon us in the odious shape of
hearth-money. A petition, we see, has been
presented to the Court of Common Council,
pointing out a new and inexhaustible source of
supply of coals to the metropolis, and asking the
aid of the Corporation towards it, without which
" the power of the present large coal-owners"
threatens to crush it. We hardly see how, on
the one hand, this can be the case, or in what
way the Corporation is likely to be able to aid •
the new undertakers. Surely there can be no-
thing, if they have capital, to prevent them bring-
ieg their commodity to market ; and sure we arc
that the public, if they find their coals both good
aml cheap, will soon give them the preference,
and so break down a combination which mono-
poly alone can sustain. 'l'o be sure there is one
way in which the civic body might aid the new
undertaking, viz., by exempting its coal for a
time at least, from the tax which the old coal-
owners have so warmly objected against. But
this we fear is not likely to be the case. The
tax is already mortgaged beyond redemption or
abandonment ; and we fear that, as far as the
civic body is concerned, we must be contented
with speeches and professions, taking, as the
public is too often obliged to do, the will for the
dee.l.—Morning Herald.
We find it necessary to recur to the subject
of the introduction of contraband articles into
France under cover of the British Ambassador's
peivilege, not for the purpose of retracting any
particle of the authentic statement already given
in this Journal, but to put our readers in posses-
sion of some additional particulars which have
since transpired, and which have the effect of at
once increasing the importance of the transaction
and of enhancing the difficulty of proceeding
with a due regard to international rights and to
the ends of substantial justice. It may be as
well to premise our narrative with an assurance,
which we
_give on conclusive authority, that
beyond the imputation of unguarded facility in
re-admitting at; a confidential domestic a man
whose previous character had called for animad-
version (and that, we admit, implies a culpable
negligence in a public functionary selected for a
high and important trust), no blame attaches to
Lord Stuart de Rothesay of' participation or
connivance—the rigid examination which has
been instituted most distinctly exonerates him.
Another Diplomatic character has been less for-
tunate in passing this ordeal. It will be remem-
bered, that at the time the contraband consign-
ment was handed over to the French Authorities
three out of ten parcels were claimed by M. de
Barboza, the cl-devant Portuguese Charge
d'Affaires—and by some means or other this
claim was attended to. It since appears that,
either from inadvertence or mismanagement, a
considerable part of what was intended for this
respectable Functionary was not included in the
three parcels ; of course, the unclaimed portion
shared the fate of the rest of the consignment, and
was sent back to the Port of London. When
this fact came to the knowledge of the el-de-
vant Diplomatist, he coolly put forward a
claim to the British Government for the
restoration of what he calls his property,
which claim was peremptorily refused ; and an
official communication, explanatory of the light
in which the whole thing is viewed here,
has been made to the proper quarter by the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and will,
of course, be duly attended to. With respect
to the parts of the transaction which may be
more peculiarly called British, it is enough at
present to state that all the necessary documents,
including the Report of the Commissioners of
Customs, and the legal opinions of the proper
authorities, are under the consideration of that
Member-of the Administration to whose depart-
ment they more directly belong,; and that there
is a fixed determination So to, act as" to. secure,

as far as the law will warrant, the punishment
all those whose share in the transaction leaves
them amenable to the criminal tribunals of the
country. It is almost superfluous to add, that
we do not consider a late statement of this affair,
purporting to have the sanction of the British
Ambassador, entitled to the consideration claimed
for it ; this much at least we can confidently al-
sea, that it is not thought by those whose official
opportunities give their opinions more than or-
dinary weight as sufficiently accurate ; and al-
though the discrepancies between the document
just alluded to and our earlier accounts of the
transaction are more of a verbal than of a sub-
stantive nature, we think it right to repeat the
assurance we have already given to our readers
—that the only statements to which implicit
credit may be given, so far as they extend, have
appeared in the columns of the Morning Chro-
nicle. We expect to be enabled, at no distant
date, to submit an important official voucher
cohnected with this affair, and fully corroborative
of what we have stated above, to the considera-
tion of our readers.—Morning Chronicle.
The Bishop of Ferns has published a second
letter, addressed by him to Lord Mountcashel,
which our readers will find in another column.
Many of the positions of the Bishop of Ferns
may be safely conceded to him. As far as ap-
pearances go, the Established Clergy of the
present day are seldom deficient. In an age of
which the prevailing characteristic is cant and
hypocrisy, it would be singular indeed if the
Clergy, who are so much more exposed to ob-
servation than others, and have so much at stake,
should be found wanting in regard to decorum.
We believe also that, in general, they are not
griping in their character of exactors of tithes.
Still the great argument of Lord Mountcashel
is not met. His Lordship considers the reve-
nues of the Church as a trust, of which the
object is the advancement of religion, and he
shows satisfactorily enough that that object
would be greatly promoted by a distribution of
Church property very different from the present.
What does the Bishop of Ferns answer ? That
the Puritans formerly inveighed against the cor-
ruptions and abuse of the Church, and that the
Church was overturned ; that Great Britain,
and still more, Ireland—nay, all Europe is revo-
lutionary. Moreover, he contends, that if the
incomes of the Clergy were more nearly on a
par, less talent would be drawn to the Church.
We observe, that at a Meeting for the formation
of a Reformation Society, numerously attended,
at Norwich, last week, and which lasted two
days, the gentlemen who took the leading part,
stated in the presence of a number of Clergymen
of the Established Church, including several
Dignitaries, that " the growth of Catholicism
arose mainly from the lukewarmness of Protest-
ants ;" cited " the effbrts of the Society in Ire-
land, and traced its origin (in 1631) to the
translations of the Scriptures into the Irish lan-
guage, circulated by the Bishop of Kilmore
(Bedel), which attracted towards him in an emi-
nent degree, the love and veneration of both
Catholics and Protestants," and alluded in terms
of eulogy to the efforts of Lord Mountcashel.
—Time Bishop of Ferns will find that all un-
biassed people will adopt these views. They
will not ask themselves whether this or that
mode of distribution of the Church property is
best calculated to enlist men of splendid talents
into the service of the Establishment, but at
once infer, from the thinness of the Protestant
ranks, that the distribution is not adapted to its
object. There is too much for ornament, and
too little for use. If the spiritual wants of the
people are to be attended to, the money ex-
pended on the superfluous Bishops may be de-
voted to a working Clergy. It is easy to in-
veigh against Puritans, and to charge all who
wish for change as enemies of the Church ; but
if such arguments were to be availing, no abuses
would ever be remedied.—/bid.

The proceedings at the Middlesex Sessions
yesterday were characterized by the usual want
of kindly feeling on the part of those in autho-
rity in this country towards those who are sub-
ject to them. We regret to see every day the
line of separation between the rich and poor
drawn more closely. The lower orders are looked
on as existing by sufferance, rather than right—
as necessary to labour and consume taxed com-
modities, but not entitled to any amusement or
relaxation, in the enjoyment of which they may
for a moment forget their toils and priva.ions.
In dealing with the applications for music
licences, the Magistrates, if we may judge from
their language, seemed to think favours were
demanded from them. The rule seemed to be
rejection ; but in one case a license was granted
by a majority of seven to four. The spokesman
on the occasion, a Colonel Bird, said " he was
sure the Magistrates would do a charitable action
by granting the license." Another reason urged
by the Colonel was, " that the greater number
of the middle classes of society—of persons such
as he was—made use of the Southampton Arms
to take a comfortable dish of tea after their walk
of an evening; and it was for their recreation
that the music was intended." Now, with all
deference co the worthy Magistrate, persons in
his rank of life are least entitled to any relaxa-
tion of a general rule. They can have music in
places of amusement—they can have music in
their own houses ; but the poor have no places
of amusement accessible to them, and they can
have no music at home. But Colonel Bird
knew his audience.—lbid.

An appeal under the new Licensing Act has
met with a different fate in Devonshire from that
in Essex, to which we adverted on Wednesday
last. The town of Torquay, which has increased
greatly of late, has only one hotel, of which the
landlord is Sir Lawrence Palk. An application
for a licence for another hotel was made to the
Magistrates, at the Licensing Session, at New-
ton, by Mr. Merchetti, a confectioner, in Tor-
quay. Sir Lawrence Palk did not act as a Ma-
gistrate, but he was present, walking about in the
Sessions-room, and the Magistrates, nine in
number, (Mr. Studdy, Chairman ; Sir H. Carew,
Hon. Captain Pellew, Serjeant Praed, Mr. Y.
Buller, Mr. C. Pair, Rev. W. Kitson, Rev. R.
Holdsworth, and Mr. Sweetland), having a dis-
cretionary power to grant or withhold the licenses.
naturally preferred obliging their colleague, Sir
L. Palk, to the accommodation of the public.
On the appeal, the arguments which were so suc-
cessful at Cheltenham were urged with much
confidence. " The question, (said Mr. Crowder)
for you to determine is, are the Magistrates at
Petty Sessions to have any discretion, or are they
not ? That is, translated into plain English,
are the Magistrates at Petty Sessions to have the
power of committing injustice, or are they not ?
" What undue influence (he added) by Sir L.
Palk has been proved ; and if none were used,
then is the appeal at an end, if the Magistrates,
however mistaken, exercised a sound discretion,
and acted fairly." Mr. Praed, a Magistrate,
went so far as to say, " There is a discretion
vested in the Magistrates below, which they have

exe►cised, nut in an unfriendly fceling to Mer-
chetti; and now to-day has IVlerchett►, by his
ingratitude (that is his application for just►ce)
proved his unfitness for a license." What tyrants
the rural Magistracy of England are ! At the
Licensing Session, the Magistrates were unani-
mous in refusing a license. On the appeal, the
judgment was, that a license be granted. The
oppositio►►, however, was formidable ; and all
the Parsons, as usual, were on the illiberal side.
There were nine IMagistrateti for the appellant,
and seven for the respondent, including three
Reverends. A majority of two in a meeting of
sixteen Magistrates, in favour of right feeling,
is still, all things considered, a great triumph !.
It was observed by Mr. Tyrrell, Counsel for the
appellant, " Every one was aware of the inte-
rested purposes to which the Licensing System
had been made subservient ; though, perhaps (said
Mr. Tyrrell), it has been less abused in Devon-
shire than in almost any other part of the
kingdom?' Whenever we know of a disinte-
rested exercise or discretion in England, where
the science of making the most of everything is
so admirably understood, we take it for granted
t'at a very little inquiry would account for the
apparent miracle in a natural way. We suspect
the reason why Magistrates anal Brewers have
trot jobbed licenses there as well as elsewhere is
that the general drink is cyder. We have ►►ever
heard cyder called by the endearing name of
Justices' Juice. Cyder is manufactured by
farmers, and not by large capitalists. We long
to see an instance of disinterestedness in a county
in which opulent brewers have had a monopoly
of pillaging the poor.— Ibid.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

HATTON-GARDEN,

John Allan, who was some days ago brought to
the Justice-room, charged with having robbed Mr.
Newtot', the agent of Mr. Vincent Stuckey, of the
Taunton bank, of 6251. in country bank notes, and
three sovereigns, in the lodging-houe of Mrs. An•
Brews, in Ironnionger•lane, was placed at the bar for
a final examination.

Mr. E. H. Brown and Mr. R. H. Collard, clerks
in Mr. Stuckey's banking-house, gave evidence as
to the identity of the notes. The parcel was sealed
up, addressed to Robarts, Curtis, and Co., and put
into Mr. Newton's possession for the purpose of be-
ing conveyed by him to Loudon.
The paper in which the notes were wrapped up,
and on which the direction was given, was found in
the possession of the prisoner, and was here pro-
duced and identified.

Mrs. Morton, a lady who resides at Chatham,
stated, that the prisoner arrived at her house accom-
panied by a friend of her husband's. {This was
the occasion on which the officer kept at his heels.]
She permitted him to have a bed in her house, in
consequence of that sort of introduction.
The prisoner's solicitor asked whether more mo-
ney had not been taken out of the portmanteau than
had been accounted for ?

John Forrester, the officer, who searched the pri-
soner's portmanteau, replied in the negative,—not a
farthing more.
The prisoner's solicitor understood that his client
had left a 51. Bank of England note, and a 101.
country note, besides what had been exhibited.
Forrester denied, in the most positive manner,
that there had been any more money than he had
displayed. He searched the portmanteau most scru-
pulously.—The portmanteau was then produced and
searched, but no note was found in it.
The LORD MAYOR asked Mr. Newton whether he
slept more soundly on the night the robbery was
committed than was usually the case with him.—
Mr. Newto►► felt much fatigued and sleepy after the
journey. He felt particularly sleepy after the re-
freshment he had taken.

The LORD MAvoß—`What was exactly the re-
freshment you took ? Mr. Newton—A glass of ale
and some tea.

The Lott]) MAYOR-It has been of late the
practice to doze people who are known to carry
money about them. Do you suspect that any drug
had been mixed up in what you took that night, to
have thrown you into a sudden and deep sleep ?
Mr. Newton—l do not think that any thing of the
kind was done. I was greatly fatigued with the
Journey, and I happen to be deaf, too, so that a trifle
could not have awakened me. _

The depositions were then severally signcd, and
the prisoner was fully committed for trial. Soon
afterwards the Grand Jury found a tine bill against
him.

It was stated, that the prisoner had been courting
the daughter of one of the persons employed officially
on board the convict ship which he went to visit.
Two boys named Ryan and Clarke, who have
been shoplifters for some time, were brought before
Sir C. S. HUNTER., charged by Herdstield, the mar-
shalman, with having stolen three silk handkerchiefs
value 305., the property of Mr. Dossetor, the haber-
dasher, of Chcapside.
Ryan moaned greatly, and all who heard him
thought he was overwhelmed with tears. The mar-
shalman, however, said he knew the boy could not
cry. He had often heard Ryan make a noise, but
never yet saw a tear from him. He then held up
Ryan's face, who almost burst into laughter at find-
ing his trick discovered.
Sir C. S. HuNTEß—Prisoners, you won't be
hanged, but you will be very desperately punished.
It is evident that you are old hands.
Ryan—No, my Lord, no; they tell no truth.
The prisoners were fully committed for trial.
BOW.STREE r.

Yesterday, Johnson, a street-keeper of St. James's,
was brought in custody of one of the new police,
and charged before Mr. MINSHULL with having com-
mitted a violent assault upon a poor boy, named
Murray, whose head exhibited a severe cut, from
which the blood was flowing freely.
Two respectable men, who witnessed the assault,
described it as unprovoked and brutal. The blow
which the boy received was sufficient to knock down
a bullock.

The street-keeper, in his defence, said that he had
repeatedly told the boy to remove his basket, but he
would not do so. Upon this occasion he set his au-
thority completely at defiance, which irritated him so
that he upset his fruit, upon which the boy struck
him a terrible blow upon the head.
Mr. MINSIWLL told the defendant that he must
put in bail to answer the assault, and ordered the
boy to be taken to a doctor's shop in the neighbour-
hood to have his wound dressed.

A young man, named Charles M'Dougall, was
charged with having assaulted Mr. M'Eaghan, a
jeweller, residing in Islington.
The complainant stated that curiosity red him to
a mock auction shop in the Strand, nearly opposite
to Southampton►-street, over the door of which is
written the name of Elmes. An elderly lady was
in the act of bidding for a Nvatch,whiell was knocked
down to her for 11. Knowing that the watch was
not worth 55., and thinking it a shame that the old
lady should be so imposed upon, witness followed
her into the street; and told her how she had been
treated. This observation having reached the ears
of those in the shop, the prisoner was sent out on
purpose to assault him. He carried a basket upon
his shoulder, and turning suddenly round, dropped
it upon him as if by accident.
Sir R. BIRNIE was quite sure that an assault
was designedly committed, and under that impres-
sion he should call upon the defendant to find bail.
These mock auctio►► shops had become an into-
lerable nuisance, and means ought to be adopted to
put them down.
The Magistrate then called over Preece, the po-
lice inspector, and told him that it would be con-
ferring a very great benefit on the public if he would
order a couple of his men to stand at the doors of
these mock auction shops, and in particular at the

door of the shop now complained of, for the pur-
pose of warning pacisengers not to purchase at such
places, " the proprietors of which," added the Ma-
gistra.e, " are a set of swindlers and rascals."
The proprietor of a public-house called the Heath-
cock, situate in lleathcock-court, in the Strand,was
fined in the mitigated penalty of 20s. and costs, for
keeping her house open at an unseasonable hour of
the night, and harbouring bad company.
A similar complaint was brought against the land-
lord of the White Lion, in Wych-street, Strand,
The defendant's wife came forward, and stated that
her husband was dangerously ill, and that four of
her children were ill also. Upon this representa-
tion, to which was added the belief of Preece, the
inspector, and two of the patrol, that the landlord
was doing all he could to clear his house of bad
company,
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Sir R. BtRNIE said he would overlook the offence
' this time, hut if another charge of a like descrip-
tion should he preferred, it would be visited with a
_severe penalty. The defendant owed his escape
from a fine to the good character which the police
had given him.
MARYLEBONE.

A country gentleman was brought yesterday
morning before Mr. GRIFFITH, from Marylebone
Watch-house, because on the preceding night he was
unable to take care of himself.

The gentleman said his name was John Duke.
He came up to London from Berkshire on Wedne.s-
day morning, and dined afterwards with Mr. Alder-
man Venal)les, and the Alderman's wine ivas. good,
and he drank too much of it.

Mr. GRIFFITH fined him five shillings, and ad-
vised him not to drink so freely at an Alderman's
table in future.

QUEEN-SQUARE.

Yesterday Samuel Sutton, a private in the 2d
Battalion of the let Regiment of Guards, was placed
at the bar before Mr. GREGORIE, charged with a
most dreadful assault on Louisa Jones, who was
brought up from the Westminster Hospital by two
police constables, and placed in a chair in the office,
and was forced to be supported by pillows.
The complainant met the prisoner on the previous
evening, in York-street, Westminster, and he accom-
panied her to her lodgings. lie offered her some
money, which she refused, and desired him to leave
the room ; he would not go, and she threatened to
call in the police to force him out. She had three-
pence in her hand, and dropped a penny on she floor,
and on stooping to pick it up, he said he supposed
she had robbed him, and threatened to knock her
brains out with the poker, and any policeman who
came into the room. He then seized the poker,
and struck her a violent blow with it across her head:
she screamed out murder, and he struck her four
blows with the poker across the head. Fearful she
should lose her life, she ran to the window to jump
out, but her clothes caught a nail outside the win-
dow, and while in that situation he struck her across
the shoulders with the poker, and also across her
arm, which he dislocated.

William Mercy, a plasterer, living in New-court,
between eight and nine o'clock the previous evening.
heard a violent screaming, and a cry of murder. He
ran out into the back yard, and saw the complainant
banging out of the first floor back window, and the
prisoner holding her by her clothes. Witness de-
sired the prisoner to let her go, and he would catch
her, which he did. She was not hurt by the fall,
but she had been dreadfully bru'sed, and the blood
was streaming from her head, which was severely cut.
The prisoner in his defence spid that the com-
plainant had robbed him of 195., and denied having
struck her with the poker.
Handley, the officer, had searched the room,
which was covered with blood, and all the money he
found was 2d.

The police constables said that the nurses at the
hospital had searched the complainant, but no money
was found.

The complainant, on being questioned by Mr.
GREGORIE, said she thought she was (lying, and
stated, in the most solemn manner, that she never
touched a penny of his money.

Mr. GREGORIE believed her. It was one of the
most brutal assaults he ever heard of, and ordered
the prisoner to be remanded from day to day.
The complainant was then conveyed back to the
hospital in a coach.
UNION-HALL

Yesterday Mr. HoNE, the sitting Magistrate, was
engaged for several hours in hearing informations
against the proprietors of coffee-shops in the district
of this office, some for opening earlier, and others
keeping their shops open later, than allowed by law.
Mr. HONE inquired minutely into the character of
each defendant, and as to the manner in which he
conducted the business of his shop. Those in
whose cases a favourable report was made were fined
a mitigated penalty, and the rest were punished by
the infliction of heavier fines.

The defendants were warned in future not to open
their shops before seven o'clock in the morning, and
to close them at ten o'clock at night, which regula-
tion is to remain in force from Michaelmas until
Lady-day next.