The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-15 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE.

On Thursday .Henry Giles and John Howse, the former
foreman, and the latter shopman, to Mr. Samuel Adams,
a tailor and woollendraper, residing in Brewer-street,
St. Pancras, were placed at the bar before Mr. Long,
on the charge of having plundered their employer of
property to the amount, as it is supposed, of from
2001. to 3001.

The evidence, which was very voluminous, went to
show that, in consequence of prosecutor having missed
property to a large amount, he communicated the fact to
Inspector Aggs, of the S division, who on Wednesday
evening, the sth inst., repaired to the shop, and there
saw the prisoner Giles. He was questioned by prose-
cutor with regard to 17 yards of cloth, which had disap-
peared in a most unaccountable mariner, but he denied all
knowledge thereof ; he was searched, and two dupli-
cates, which he had secreted beneath his under clothing,
fell upon the floor, the said duplicates being for cloth
pledged at the shops of pawnbrokers in the neighbour-
hood. Both the pieces were pawned by the prisoner
Howse, one in his own name, and the other in that
of Giles. On the Inspector telling Giles that his
lodgings must be examined, he expressed a wish to
speak to the prosecutor, at the same time making an
observation respecting his wife and family. His lodg-
ings were searched, and in them were found some
hundreds of pieces of black, blue, and medley-coloured
cloths, of different lengths, a pilot coat, a frock ditto,
two pairs of trowsers, three waistcoats, and a quantity of
silk and thread, together with 21 pieces of shalloon, 45
pieces of moleskin, and a variety of other articles, a por-
tion of which property he (Giles) admitted belonged to
the
.prosecutor, and said he hoped he would not be pressed
against severely, on account of his wife and children.

-The property was produced and prosecutor identified
a great portion of it, and he had no doubt with regard
to the whole of the articles discovered being his. The
value of what had been, brought forward was between
351. and 401., which was somewhere about a tenth part of
his loss.

The prisoners stand committed for trial, but will be
brought up again on Saturday.

THAMES OFFICE.

Thursday Mr. Baker the Coroner, attended by several
jurymen and other gentlemen, waited upon Mr. Ballan-
tine, and stated that he had just been engaged in a very
important inquiry respecting the death of a man named
James Skelton, late -boatswain of the ship Ellen Mary,
who died in consequence of eating buffalo beef of a most
unwholesome description. The Jury had come to an
unanimous decision that the beef was of a noxious and
dangerous quality ; but they were unable to impose a
deodand, because the putrid meat was of no value ; but
were anxious that the buffalo beef which remained on
board ship in the London Dock should be destroyed, and
requested him to apply to the Thames Police Magis-
trates on the subject. Samples of the beef had been
produced by the Thames Police officers, and it was most
offensive to all who came near it. Mr. Evans, the Su-
perintendent of the River Police, had examined the
provisions, and declared that such food was unfit for
human beings, and condemned its use. He hoped, under
these circumstances, the Magistrate would direct some
of his officers to seize the bad meat and cause it to be
destroyed.

Mr. BALLANTINE' was not aware that he had any au-
thority to seize and condemn stores, unless they were
Government stores improperly on board ship, nor had he
any control over the river police. If the Learned Co-
roner was satisfied with the verdict of the Jury, it would
have its effect if the decision found its way into the
public journals ; and after that, should the Captain of
the vessel dare to serve out provisions condemned by the
verdict of a Coroner's Jury, and any fatal consequences
ensued, he would be liable to severe punishment. He
should be happy to assist the Coroner if he would point
out the means.

Mr. Baker—l think some power is vested in the Magis-
trate to seize and destroy unwholesome food, and can be
applied in the same way as the destruction of bad meat
in a market.

Mr. BALLANTINE—Under some local Acts, powers
are given to Magistrates to seize and destroy unwhole-
some food, but I know of no general law on the subject
which gives me authority to send an officer to seize bad
provisions on board ship.
Mr. Symons—There is no law to enable a police officer
to go on board ship and take the stores away.
Mr. Baker—Well, I have done my duty, and can take
no further trouble in the matter.

Mr. BALLANTINE—If there has been any.mismanage-
mew with the provisions, the owners will take care and
remedy the evil, and prevent this bad meat going out
again. You had better speak to some of the 'name*
Police Inspectors on the subject, Mr. Symons, and they
will do what is right, I dare say.
Mr. Baker thanked the Magistrate, and took his leave.

THE POLISH REVOLUTION.
(From the Court Journal of Jan. 8.)
Much has been said with reference to the late changes
at Warsaw, but in so vague and unsatisfactory a manner
that we have thought proper to inquire more closely
into the subject, and have obtained the following state-
ment upon the highest authority :
Upon the unsuccessful issue of the last Polish Revolu-
tion, in 1831, the Emperor abrogated the constitution,
the scrupulous maintenance of which 'formed, we are
proud to say, at the instigation and through the instru-
mentality of England, one of the chief provisions of the
treaty of Vienna, and the obligation, by which only the
tenure of Poland by Russia has been sanctioned by the
other parties to that great European compact. The so-
called " organic statute" was substituted for it. France
and Great Britain remonstrated, and in the belief of the
best informed diplomatists, protested against this
change. They suffered, however, the Polish rights to
free institutions to remain in abeyance, in the con-
fident hope that the course of years would calm the
Emperor's ire, would cause him to abandon the system
of unheard-of persecution and tyranny; stigmatized as it
was repeatedly by the unanimous voice of all Christian
nations, and that matters would slowly and gradually
reassume their ancient position; but in this they sig-
nally erred, and failed in all their provisions. The state
of Poland, instead of ameliorating, has been for these
nine years daily approaching that crisis which, setting
even aside the rights of the Poles, threatens Europe with
an immediate and most imminent peril. " What," says
Prince Czartoryski, in an admirable speech delivered on
the last anniversary of the Polish Revolution, " What,
if the Autoerat should find no longer any opponents in
Poland, if he should succeed to fuse both countries into
one compact empire, and if warlike -populations thus
united were to cast a longing look beyond the Oder and
the Carpathian crest, what would become of Prussia and
Austria? What a panic would shake Germany—what a
consternation must needs seize the rest of Europe."
From the very outset, the Russian Government began
to set at naught all the provisions of the treaty. In vain
did the Pole obey the Imperial mandate ; in vain did he
long for a brief repose. All was useless.
With persevering hostility nationality was hunted
down to the russet vestments of the peasants, language
expelled from official acts and from schools, an annual
tribute of children for peopling Russian deserts enforced,
the entire population of whole districts transplanted into
distant colonies, Polish prelates thrown into irons,
churches converted to the uses of the conqueror's creed,
and wholesale conversions to the Greek religion, accom-
plished by compulsion and intimidation. And if any-
thing could add to the heinousness of such proceedings,
it is that fatal and incomprehensible recklessness, which
made the enforcement of such measures always coincide
with the Emperor's visits to Warsaw, that is, whilst peo-
ple were naturally led to expect paternal oblivion, leni-
ency, and mercy. Thus it happened also in last Septem-
ber. With a single stroke of his pen he abolished the
last two monuments of the separate existence ofPoland—
the State Council and the High Court of Justice, annex-
ing and merging them in the Russian Senate sitting at
St. Petersburgh. It is true that the ukase still maintains
the seat of those two bodies at Warsaw,. and this cir-
cumstance has given an opportunity to the advocates of
Russia to say that nothing is changed but the name.
But if it were so, why this new gratuitous insult to
Poland ? Can we nest see how easy it will be for the
Emperor to decree, with another stroke of his pen, that
whereas it is expedient that all component departments
of the Russian Senate should reside in the metropolis of
the empire, those hitherto seated at Warsaw are trans-
ferred to St. Petersburgh ; and then all security to pro-
perty in Poland, whether in the hands of Poles or of
foreigners, is at an end. Harassing delays, consequent
upon so great a distance of the seat of justice ; entire
ignorance of Polish customs and laws on the part of the
edges ; but above all, their corrupt practices and pro-
verbial bribery, will achieve the work begun by the op-
pression, rapacity, and exactions of the Russian officials
in Poland. This master-stroke of •policy will then be-
come a powerful enhino to destroy all the landowners of
that country ; and it is because that class- is most ob-
noxious toßussia, as suspected of cherishing still the
hope for national in
dependence, that all powers are set
at work to ruin it.
In the old day of Italian supremacy and the power of
Imperial Rome, her citizens erected at the entrance of
the Forum the statue of Marsyas in terrorem litiyatorum.
Flayed and agonizing as it was, it might find a more
appropriate place in the temple of the Russian Themis,
as a true representative, of that sort of justice, which only
enriches the Judges, generally ruins both plaintiffs and
defendants, and perplexes all.
Under these circumstances, we are happy to announce
that our present Ambassador at the Court of St. Peters-
burgh has received instructions to state to the Emperor
calmly, respectfully, but firmly, the resolution of her
Majesty's present advisers, to stop all further inroads
upon Polish independence, and to revert to the tone and
spirit of the treaty of Vienna.

SEASONABLE BEI4EVOLENCE.--MoUnt Vesu-
vius has distributed a good deal of bring among the
poor
in the neighbourhood. •