The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-22 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

Mary Lonstock Strutly was charged with deserting
her infant child, aged six months, by leaving it un-
protected in a passage in one of the neighbouring
streets. It appeared that the prisoner's husband was
transported a few years ago, since which period she
formed an intimacy with another man, by whom she
had a child, which was horn in Christchurch work-
house. This child she left in a passage a few nights ago
wrapped up in flannel, and in such 9. situation th:tt
it was only astonishing it was not trodden upon and
killed. A policeman, in going up this passage, found
the infant as above described, and having conveyed it
to the stationhouse, the mother was subsequently taken
into custody. Having admitted the charge,
The MAGISTRATE said, the punishment Magistrates
had the power of inflicting for such offences was not
at all adequate, and he should therefore recommend
the Guardians to indict her at the sessions.

COURT OF REQUESTS, CASTLE-

STREET.

A Mile-end omnibus proprietor, namea Bonner, was
summoned for refusing to pay one guinea claimed by
a decorative painter named Gilbert under these cir-
cumstances :

The painter said he entered into"a contract to paint
and adorn an omnibus belonging to the defendant,
which was to be called " The Royal Albert." In order
that the omnibus should not disgrace its illustrious
namesake, be bestowed an extra quantity of labour on
flu:, ornamental parts, and in particular adorned certain
new boards with gold letters. As the latter portion
of the work was not included in the contract, he sent
in an extra claim of one guinea.
The defendant, in reply, pleaded that the gold let-
ters were to be thrown into the bargain. To show
the exact nature and terms of this bargain, he wished
to call one of his men who was present at the time.
The Court having acceded to this request, the wit-
ness was called, and gave this account—.
" Master vonted to take the shine out of the Mile-
end busses vith von of his'n, so he has a picter o'
Prince Halbert drawd a horseback, vitch vos to go on
the bus, vitch this here gen'lman vos to paint. Mis-
ter Gilbert says to master, As I vos the man wot
turn'd out the pride of the road, Queen Wictoria, I
should werry much like to turn out Prince Halbert
jest as slap ; so if you pay for new boards, I'll warnish
'era and put on golden letters. "
CnAmmAN—Then he was not to be paid anything
extra for painting the boards?
Witness—He warnt ! but the wuss pint is this here,
that Mister Gilbert lost Prince Halbert's picter, vitch
master sot sitch gnat store by cos it was so werry
like the Royal Halbert, vith his cock'd hat in von hand
and drawn sword in t'other.

The painter having no evidence to rebut the testi-
mony of the last witness, the Court ordered a nonsuit
to be entered.

THE MANCHESTER. TRADE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Slit—Allow me through the medium of your
valuable piper, to draw the attention of your readers
to the present deranged state of several branches of
the manufacturing trade of Manchester, chiefly attri-
butable to the preference given by purchasers to
Scotch tartan goods. Were it the ordinary course
of events that had brought about the sudden and
overwhelming—l might almost say exclusive—demand
for tartans, there would be little cause for complaint;
but being produced by agency not the most legitimate
and fair, I shall be allowed, perhaps, a small portion
of your space while I point out the means by which
Manchester has been thus suddenly deprived of a
large portion of its trade.
The agency to which I allude is, the fact of her
Majesty's being advised to patronise the manufac-
turers of cloth in Scotland. this may, at first sight,
appear harmless enough, but a very little attention is
required to convince any competent judge that such a
course of procedure as her Majesty's, must be fraught
with serious evil to other manufacturing districts • for
it is evident, that, =tails mutandis, there being only a
certain amount of trade transacted in this country,
the more there is done in one part, the less there will
be done in another. Facts, too lamentable, confirm
the truth of this statement.

Unprepared for so sudden and extensive a demand
for tartans, many houses in the Manchester trade have
large stocks of goods on hand, which, as the writer
well knows, cannot, without serious loss, command a
market. God knows, the trade in Manchester was
bad enough before this calamity, but, it appears,
" worse remained behind."

I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
AN OLD MANCHETER MANUFACTURER.
Manchester, Oct. 19, 1842.

DANIEL WEBStkRiS COUNTRY

EmSillesUfEraNm CBEost.
thirty
on to this place
It is about it
or rather to the seat and occasional
residence of Danie
Webster.
The house is a large square one, surrounded by a
piazza, and built about eighty years ago, by some onewhose ideas were evidently far in -
advance
of his
neighbours, and who must have been regarded by
them, unless he were a most benevolent and obliging
man, as an aristocrat. It is two stories high, painted
white, with a half story raised from the root; sur-
rounded by a range of low windows, and has two
large handsome white chimneys striped with black
coining out of the roof just in the right place to look
well. Entirely through the house runs a spacious
entry, tent eet in width, having in it a large and ap-
parently superior barometer, with three or four pic-
tures in gilded frames, representing hunting parties,
a la Anglais, on horse-back in full tilt after game.
On the west end of the house is the library—and a
very pleasant room it is, too—opening three ways
upon truit trees of various kinds, and at the present
time laden with fruit. In the library is a small book-
case, containing not a law book, as I could perceive—
as Mr. Webster does not trouble himself, or allow
anybody else to trouble him, with law matters while
here—but about two hundred and fifty volumes of a
miscellaneous character, a good sprinkling of which
are on agriculture, horticulture, angling, and gun-
ning. In one corner of the room is a superior rifle,
which, doubtless; never fails in the owner's hands, to
bring down the game. A table with writing appa-
ratus, a formidable walking-stick, a splendid Indian
costume, ar carious .hat-tree made of buck's horns,
with a few other presents, rare and interesting, com-
pose the furniture of the library.
The farm owned and improved here by Mr.
_Webster, consists of more than a thousand acres ;
but a part of it, however, is
of it being improved as pasture ground. The part
which is improved presents a fine appearance. There
are a variety of young
rounding the house, which
hove been set out under
the direction of . Webster, and which are now
overloaded and
bent
the fruit. Indeed, to the ground by the weight of
the whole establishment, house,
out-houses, garden,
andifarm, are in excellent keep-
ing, and indicate in their owner taste and interest in
agricultural and horticultural
pursuits ; and the
astonishment is how he can find time, amidst his
numerous cares and_public duties,
or pay it a visit.—New York

Ceeiht)ourhood of Tooley-
The wharfinzers in the
street and the 'Tower have to a resolution of
come to
evening, instead ! closing their warehouses at six
of seven, as at present.