The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-23 00:00:00

SDITAIT 011 Trig UYNDO'S JOURNAL'

The anxiously-expected ioeetlng on the sitl 7
'yet of the disqualifications under . which the
Catholics labour-took place in Dublin on Tues-
ilar. aye able to present the opening of the
discussion, with an account of the character and
number of the assembly ; but as the proceed-
ings would probably he carried over to another
‘lay, it is not likely that we shiould he able to
(Jive the conclusion of them. Yet how striking a
scene ! When was it ever known that the voice
of so many men of rank and property pleading for
one object, in which the greater part of them had
no personal interest, was disregarded by a wise
and benevolent Government ? .14)0k also to
the eleventh resolution, in which it is said that
the meeting adopts the seutimentssontained in
the Protestant declaration previously signed. in
England by Dukes, 31.0 quisseis;TEarrs, and Pa=
rons—we had almost said without number, and
supported by an immense physical force ; and then
let it be asked whether so preponderating a pro-
portion of the property and strength of a whole
empire ever before pleaded for a cause which
was to he turned out of court with a sic 'cab,.
sicjabeo? We do hope that this meeting will
he reverenced, because it is a grave•and impor-
tant one—much more so than we can express;
and that all pertness, flippancy, and sarcasm will
be tAscountenanced : for the time may come
when deep and useless regret (the sera ptylli-
tentia, of which the phi:osophie histori4n
speaks) will be felt, that the counsels given in
the resolutions passed. at the meeting had not
been pursued. We hope otn fearful anticipa-
tions will not be verified—:first, because we hope
that the rights required will not be refused ; and
next, because we hope that, should they he re-
fused, the consequences will not follow which
would be hut the too just effect of that refusal.
There is no firm and settled tranquillity for the
empire, no peace or satisfaction for Ireland, till
emancipation shall be granted.— Times.

We hear a great deal of reductions about to
take place in the expenditure of the country,
and trust we shall , not be disappointed in our
expectations. We Amid like to know of what
use is what is called the Riding Establishment
at St. John's '‘Vood ? It is said to be kept up
as a nursery for supplying the different regiments
of cavalry with Riding-masters ! !! We sup-
pose we shall bear next of an establishment be-
pig termed to fiernisli Adjutants, and another for
Quarter-rnastere ! ! The Riding Establishment,
when first formed at Pimlico, Was said to be a
teenporary, and certainly a very proper measure,
thr introducing a uniform system of riding in
the eavaliy regiments. Riding-masters of the
different regiments, and their Rough-riders,
were,aissembled there, under a German to lie
sure,—We must have all our army German,
nutxtachios inclitrled. When these men were
instrueted in riding with a long stirrup
end to sit, or rather stride, on their fork
(not a very good position to get over an in-
closed country), and they were returned to their
different regiments, the whole establishment
ought then to have been broken up, and the
Inspecting General of. Cavalry ordered to report
any deviation froe, the new system of horse-
manship which he might observe in any regi-
ment hereafter. But the army was the hohbv
of the late Commander. in-Chief ; he was the
heir preemptive, and had at the time far more
influence with the Minister or Ministers than
tke King himself; and it signified little to him
st what expellee he rode his hobby. We hear
now of Cadets training for the supply of the
different .regiments with riding • masters!' ! It
tee like- the training young men to he school-
waiters, and fancying they were all to turn
out fit fur instructors; surely in every re-
giment, there will be found persons who,
from. practice and experience. in teaching, are
liver to succeed to the post of Riding-
master, and to do • the duty in a better
style, being more used to the temper of both
man and horse, than striplings from St. John's
Wood ; besides, it takes away from the cavalry
an object - of ambition—a great defect in the
British army. No one is -better able to form an
opinion on these subjects than the Duke of
Wellington; who has, we may say, had expe-
rience of all the cavalry in the world except
the --Turkish, of which he may form some
notion, from having seen and served with the
cavalry of the Native Powers in India, in which
there are many Persians, who are said in some
respects to resemble those of Asiatic Turkey.—
The .observations we have made cannot fail, we
think, to be in unison with the opinion of the
Premier. We trust he will have political nerve
enough to relieve the country from this unneces-
sary,and wasteful expellee, which he must well
know to be objectionable in other respects.—
_Horning Chronicle.
The case of the man who was• executed at
Hoesemonger-lane on Monday, for horse-steal-
ing,. is a striking illustration of the inutility of
imprisonment towards habitual offenders. This
man, it appears, had been previously condemned
for the same offence, to which he was before ad-
dicted ; but owing to the interest which was
exerted in his favour, the sentence of death was,
on that occasion, commuted into a year's impri-
sonment—at the expiration of which, like nme-
tenths of those who are similarly situated, he re-
turned with renewed zest to his former courses,
and at length paid the forfeit of his life. That
it was spared in the first instance, no one can re-
- gree; his crime being of that description in which
the judgment of mankind differs from that of the
law. But, instead of imprisonment, the alter-
native should have been transportation. In the
ease of the habitual. offender, or in that of those
who, without being hardened, have no other re-
?coerce but a return to crime, we hold transporta-
tion to be not only the fit punishment, but
mercy, both to the criminal and to society. In
this man's case it must be cleer, that while, on
the one hand, imprisonment wholly failed in
producing any beneficial effect upon his conduct,
Transportation would, on the other, have rescued
him from an ignominious end, and would have
saved the property of those who have suffered by
his depreciations. Morning Herald.
We alluded briefly, yesterday, to the distress
which now prevails- among the. unemployed and
destitute Weavers of Spiealfielde, and would
now call the attention of our readers to it in a
more special manner.--Net language, ire are in-
ihrmed, can possibly paint the distress of these
poor people in adequate colours. They are said
eo he destitute of every thin;—even of a bed
whereon to repose after peseilig the-,(LAw:
b,A without clothing,- without..
stir
without shelter that too in the British
metropolie, where the hand of charity is always
extended t) relieve the unfortunate and destitute,
end where benevolence is alwass in search of
the wretched instead of shunning the appear-
eece of misery, and " passing on the other
s,ide" the victims of hunger and despair ! We
will net barrow the feelings of our readers by

. . . .
statTng ' all • we have heard of the -misery'
which prevails in Spitsfiehls ;. for. we are sure
that it only needs to ,he mentioned_in order to
be relieved, and that a public fleeting will
speedily be 'convened .for the purpose of raising a
subscription for their relief. In the meantime.
we amust protest against the advantage .vhich
has been taken of this distress to cast odium on
those Oro Were most instrumental in pro:3lring
the repeal of the Spitalfields Act, and laying
open the manufacture of silk to foreign compe•
tition. The blame rests on the framers, not the
repeaters of the defunct Spitalfields Act, which
by granting a monopoly at the expellee of the
public, encouraged a manufacture which would
hasei
iriiing
flourishedi .ammti)ref daily reb'
improvingutlerafree
manufacturet racless's-
tem, and congregated in one spot numbers of
persons skilled in one trade only, and who,
even during- the existence of the monopoly,
were always the most destitute of- the working '
classes of the metropolis, because the principals,
the master manufacturers, being always secure of
a market, never attempted the slightest improve-
ment of it. Things have since- altereg. The
trade has been in some measure thrown open to
foreign competition : and while one consequence
of it, as was foreseen by Messrs. Huskisson and
Grant, has been the improvement of the manu-
facture to an extent which could scarcely have
been contemplated in so short a period,
another has been a greater growth of the silk.-
manufacture in the country where labour is
cheaper, and the transference to it of the coarser
kinds of the silk manufacture. Tire latter cir-
cumstance of course has operated against the
Spitalfields weavers ; for the manufacture of silk
had commenced at Manchester, Macclesfield,
Glasgow, and other manufacturing towns prior
to the repeal of the Spitalfields Act ; and as in
such cases the trade invariably migrates more
speedily than the workmen, the result is seen in
a flourishing
thol
mthaeintcto;intityh,eiran:nl
oitiiingth,ev:ll,:setituthtieonproifeetlofer
. ' -,:ioe:veiersss.of
sSipicilial‘fiveeld.cs,onwe:fiove hatove
bneotthevistirteutel
them in search of employment, but attempted
--every necessary of life rendered the attempt
fezts
weavers.
of ' til
Though
edestititec
notonl the victims ition of tl.ceSos ital-
ietle of
' Mesrs. Huskisson and Grant's legislation, they
certainly ate the victims of errors tOr which they
are not to blame ; and, when to this it is added,
that they are now in the most deplorable state of
poverty and want, we are certain that the same
benevolence which has .saved the Spanish and
Italian refugees from dying of hunger, will also
extend to them the means at least of supporting
existence, until more favourable - times come
round.—Morning .Advertiser.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

B&) W-STREET.

Yesterday a respectable-looking woman, named
Stubblefield, was charged on suspicion of having been
concerned in stealing 5001. in Rank of England
notes and draughts, the property of Mr. Catt, of
Tide-mills, Bishops-stone,' near Seaford, in SusseX.
From the evidence of Mr.-Cart and others, it ap-
peared that on the 21st of last June his collecting
-clerk having obtained leave to absent himself, his
(Mr. Catee) son collected the money on that par-
ticular day, and at nine o'clock in the evening he
returned to the counting-house with a small hand-
basket, containing 500/. in Bank of England notes
and hankers' cheques. He handed the basket to a
clerk who was in the act of putting up the shutters.
The elerk,instead of taking the basket to the counting-
house, laid it on the ground, and having put up the
shutters, %vent into the house, forgetting the basket.
In a few moments, however, recollecting the cir-
cumstance, he returned for the basket, but found
that it was gone. The road not being a public
ene, the suspicion of the witness fell upon a man
named Tuckr►ion, who was in his employment. He
accordingly forwarded an account of the robbery to
Bow-street, and Bishop and Taunton were sent
down ; but their exertions proved ineffectual to find
any clue to the guilty party.: Taunton, on his re-
turn tn. town, proceeded to the Bank of England
with the -numbers of the stolen notes. - None of
them, however, had been offered at the Bank until
the 24th of September, when one of the stolen
notes for 201., numbered 105,557, and dated the
3d of April, 1828, was presented for payment
by a young man apparently about 21 years of
ago, dressed like a country servant in his Sunday
clothes, and a female rather advanced in life. The
note was stopped; but the parties who presented
it were •not detained. Mr. Jameson, the Bank-
clerk, to whom the note had been offered, imme-
diately communicated the circumstance to Mr. Catt,
and upon that information handbills were issued
describing the parties who had appeared at the
Bank, and offering a reward of 100/. for the appre-
hension and conviction of those who were guilty of
the robbery. In consequence of the description con-
tained in the handbill agreeing in many particulars
with the appearance of the prisoner, and it having►
been ascertained that she was in Sussex at the
time of the robbery, Mr. Jameson, the Bank-clerk,
went to her residence in Morgau's•lane, Tooley-
street, Borough, and pointed her out from four other
women who were taking tea in the room, as the
female who accompanied the young man to the
Bank in September, and tendered the 20/. note.
The porter who attends at the Secretary's-office in
the Bank was also gent for, and pointed out the
prisoner as the woman who, to the best of his be-
lief, was at the Bank of England on the 24th of
September, in company with a young 'man. Upon
this evidence Smith, one of the principal officers
of Bow-street, took the prisoner into- custody.
The prisoner denied in the most positive manner
any knowledge whatever of the robbery. She also
.denied fleeing been at the Bank. of England on; the
day in queStiel.
Mr. MINSIIULL, After cautioning her to be careful
what site said, asked her if it were true that she had
been in Susses 011 or about the 21st of June ?
The prisoner admitted that she left London to
see her friends about the time.. On the 24th of
June she went to Battle, from thence to Bexhill,
and from that place she went to see a Mrs. Sim-
mons, who lived at Seaford.
Mr. Catt observed that Simmons was the name
wriiten upon the note by the parties who presented
it at the Bank.

Mr. iNinsttut.t said, that this indeed was a re-
markable circumstance, and he asked the prisoner if
she had received any money from the Ilia. Sim-
mons whlro she went to visit. _

The prisoner replied, that Mrs. Simmons was a'
bed-ridden old woman, whop] she merely called to
see as she was in that part of the country. Sho did
not slop at her house for more than five minutes,
and received no money whatever from her.
Ne. iVllNstlui4o asked her, if she knew any person
of the name of Caton, who lived at Brighton, as
such an address appeared also upon the note.
The p ironer answered, that she take.7.,v no person
of that c!ltne, and had never been to Brigbt4,-n, in
her life.
Mr. Jameson, die clerk at the Bank of England,
was then called forward, an 4 asked by the Magistrate
if he were quite sure that the prisoner was the
female whom he had seen at the Bank vilben the 201.
note Wan offered to be changed.
Mr. Jameson replied, that be was almost per.
sualed she was the same person. After the lapse,
, however, a nearly four months, anti having seen
the woman who came to the Bank for only ten mi•
nutes,le was not prepared to swear positively that
1 she was the same person.
The porter at the Bank was then asked the same
question. He replied, that the prisoner was as much

like the Woman- whom he saw at the Bank, as any
woman could be like another. Her dress was ex-
actly alike ; the bonnet was just the same, and he
particularly noticed the riband, which was precisely
like that which the prisoner wore. The shawl,how-
ever, which the woman who came to the Bank were,
was a light-brown whittle, with a fringe to it.
Mr. MtNsnt:Lt, asked the prisoner if she had worn
such a shawl about the time stated.

The prisoner replied, that she had never worn a
shawl of that description.
Mr. Missnt'LL asked the prisoner if she had seen
any of her Sussex friends soon after her return to
town.

The prisoner answered, that some friends of hers
came to see her froM Bexhill, after she returned to
town, in the month of July. Those persons had
come from Bexhill to see their son, who had been
convicted of smuggling, and was then .a prisoner in
Newgate.
The MAGISTRATE ordered the clerk to take down
that circumstance, and then observed, that although
strong suspicions existed that the prisoner had some-
how or other been privy to the passing of the note
in question, yet, as the principal witnesses to that fact
had failed to identify her as positively as the law re-
quired, he felt loth to commit her upon the evidence
adduced. He felt, however, that it was a case in
which he would not he doing his duty, if the pri-
soner was suffered to go at large without giving
some security for her appearance in case any other
circumstances arose to require it.
The prisoner was accordingly admitted to bail,
which was immediately put in by her husband and
the master of a trading-vessel, called the Maria
Dm li~agton.
A fellow named T. W. Brewer, was fully com-
mitted to Newgate for endeavouring to extort lOs.
from a solicitor named Finch, in Dean-street, Soho,
by means of a threatening letter, imputing to the
prosecutor a beastly offence.