The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-02 00:00:00

salary into the bargain. Mr. Mactionnell dis-
claims the acceptance of 3001. a-year as his
salary, and insists urn 5001. a-year as a
quanti meruit ; and he uses this argument:
—ln the year 1793 the Roman Catholics ap-
pointed three " Parliamentary Agents," one of
them a Peer ; the .alaries were to be—one at
2,000 guineas, a second 1,500 guineas, and a
third 1,000 guineas; and would the Catholics
of Ireland now object to 5001. a year ? We
must here observe that 4,500 guineas a year
was a pretty liberal remuneration to a Peer
and two Commoners for endeavouring to pro-
cure the removal of their own disabilities, and
who, besides this pay, got the credit of patriot-
ism and disinterested public virtue. But Mr.Mac-
donnell let out, also, the fact that, under the late
Association, one gentleman came to London, and
received 801. for one month. This gentleman was
stated at the Meeting to be the disinterested agitator
IVlr.O'Gorman. Another, whose name did not
transpire, he said, got 1201. for two months.
How many more lived in this manner, by their
patriotism, upon a public fund, collected, as Mr.
O'Connell said, from the " poorest and most op-
pressed people in the world," we are not told.
But these facts are sufficient to show that the
Catholic Association was not inferior, in the
" art of jobbing," to the oldest Corporation in
the empire—that of London not excepted. Who
can be surprised at the immense sums that were
got rid of by the Association, when such were
the mercenary wages of the " unpurchased"
champions of Civil and Religious Liberty ? We
do not wonder that so strong an opposition was
made to the admission of Reporters to this
Meeting. It was just the same sort of oppo-
sition, and on the same principle, that was made
in the " enlightened and liberal" Common
Council of the Corporation of London to the
Press, when the City accounts were the subject
of discussion the other day. Thus has " patri-
otism" its corruptions and its dread of publicity,
as well as any of the venal systems which it at-
tacks and denounces.—Morning Herald.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

A man named Smidmore was charged before Al-
derman ANSLEY with having knocked down a poor
East India House pensioner in Leadenliall-street,
and plundered him of a ticken bag, containing
11. 3s. 6d.

Dyer, the pensioner, it appeared, had gone to re-
ceive his money at the East India House on Friday,
and was observed by the prisoner, who saw that he
was old and feeble, entering a public-house in the
neighbourhood. The complainant's head being
weak, a drop of gin soon got into ir, amras he came
out of the public-house at about two o'clock in the
broad day, the prisoner knocked him down by a
blow in the face, seized his bag, and ran off at full
speed. The old man, however, called out " stop
thief !" as loudly as he could, and several persons
followed the prisoner, who ran down St. Mary Axe
and threw the bag into an entry, where it was
picked up.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.
Mary Hatpley, an incorrigible pauper about 16
years of age, was brought up, charged with having
abused and insulted the churchwardens and overseers
and other officers of the parish to which she belongs.
This is unquestionably one of the most intolerable
termagants that ever issued from a poor, house. In
fact, she has always trusted to her tongue for a
victory over the parish, and she has generally suc-
ceeded.

A written character of this girl was produced. It
was from the superintendent of one of those houses
to which paupers are sent, called farm-houses, and
it stated that there was rro possibility of controlling
her; that so outrageous was her conduct, that the
other paupers were absolutely determined to leave the
house and take their chance for a morsel of bread in

the streets, if she was not removed from amongst
them. Indeed, it had been in contemplation to sign
a round robin against her, but no more than two
could write.

The ALDERMAN ordered that she should go to the
readmill for a month.

" The treadmill be --," said she, and walked
out of the room swearing that she would " sarve 'em
out" in Bride yell.

MARLBORO U GH-STREET.

Sir G. FARRANT and Mr. DYER, the Sitting
Magistrates at this office, yesterday were occupied
nearly the whole of the day in the investigation of
various charges of assault and other acts of miscon-
duct preferred by some of the officers of this office,
and other constables, against coachmen, footmen,
grooms, &c. belonging to several of the ladies and
gentlemen who attended the grand aqua-horticultu-
ral breakfast, given at five o'clock on the evening of
Saturday last, during a delightful thunder-storm, in
the gardens at Chiswick.
The principal.alleged delinquent on the occasion
was the coachman of Sir Astley Cooper, and in the
investigation of his case the evidence of a multitude
of witnesses on both sides pro and contra was as
conflicting and as directly opposed as any that was
ever heard upon a trial in any of the courts of law
amongst the Jewish people. On the one side there
was the evidence of Mr. Dyer, jun., the son of the
Magistrate, and a host of constables, who swore
that from their own personal observation on the
spot, they knew that the coachman had greatly tnis-
conducted himself, and that not the slightest blame
or cause of complaint could attach to the officer
whom he was chargea with assaulting; and on the
other side there was The evidence of the Earl of

Iluntingdon, Mr. Cressvvell, the barrister, and a hall
full of servants, who swore with equal confidence,
that from their personal observation also on the
spot, there was not the most distant ground fur
complaint against the coachman, and that no hu-
man being could behave worse on such an occasion
than the officer who was said to have been as-
saulted.

After giving this contending evidence all the
consideration it no doubt deserved, the Magistrate
fined the coachman 31. for the assault. Several
other livery servants were also fined in various sums.