The Sun.
London, England, 1829-02-05 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

Committee contrive to gild it, they may find it less
nattsemil at first,- hut, mug sure as they are alive, not t ---
the less. certain in its operation. We are aware of - cuiLDHALL.
all that has been urged about the inconvenience of On the night agile 28th ult., a lad, who gave
popitiar elections, and that Noble Lords and Thin. hie name Moms Edwards, was brought into the
Cieittlemen would never consent to be the objects of watch-house of Ahlersgate ward,foamingat the mouth,
such a kind of choice. Lords and Gentlemen may and in a state of stupor, from having swallowed
do as they please I but we do not see why the rights some laudanum. He was conveyed to the hospital,
where the stomach pump was resorted to with the
of the whole cominUoity should be sacrificed, merely
rhea great names may grace an (Ace, to the duties usual success, and he was-brought before Sir PETER
of which they so little attend. At all events, if any LAURIE on Monday, to be disposed of, baying nei-
compromise be submitted to, let not the advantages tiler funds nor friends in London. Ile said he was
be all on otie side; let the rate-payers at large (at. a foot-boy out of place, and distress had induced him
least those up to a certain amount) have the privi- to attempt suicide, and that he had recently been
lege of supplying vacancies as they occur, am! not supported by his uncle, named Edwards, residing at
be handed over as still greater vassals to those who, Clifton, a clerk of Mr. Bayliss, the solicitor at
we have no doubt, will know how to use their vie- Bristol. Sir Peter Laurie caused a letter to be ad-
tory, if they obtain its—Morning Herald. dressed to ibis gentleman, and yesterday an answer
was received from Mr. Baylis, denying that he had
Before we shall hare another opportunity of ad-
dressing our renders, the Great Council of the Na. any clerk of the mune of Edwards, or that any other
solicitor in Bristol had, to the best of his knowledge.
tien Will have assembled in a Session which every This only served to whet the Alderman's curiosity
me eireutanee of the times serves to convince us willmi. the most important in Ettelish history. to' learn his history, and Sir Peter pertinneionsly
he
continued to interrogate him above half an hour, till
The Catholic Question has for many years agitated he at length extracted from him something like a
the country, distracted and enfeebled the public
councils of the empire, been a stumbling block and
rock of ()Grim among honest end enlightened c'"Tislieteptirtistoarliee'r said he did not know his parents;
lie lied been informed that his mother was a
Statesmen, and always a convenient but , sometimes n
powerful instrument in the hands of the. unprin-* daughter of Mr. Staples, of Brabourtie Lees, near
Ashford, Kent ; and a nobleman (the Berl of
cipied and ambitions. By means of this question,
Shaftesbury) had directed him to be educated at
political selfishness and traitorous disaffection have
inflicted upon the state incalculable evils—hare Dr. Burt's school, at Canterbury, which he quitted
converted Ireland, which ought to be a source of three years ago. lie was put in the school in the
name of Henry Staples, and in vacation time was
s:length and glory to Great into a cause of
received and treated very kindly by his supposed
weakness and a subject ofopprobritine—have poisoned
mother, to whom the nobleman used to remit JO!.
the thickly-sown seeds of prosperity in the bosom of
the land, end nurtured them into a foul, and fatal, querterly. lie had himself seen his Lordship's
franks upon letters to his mother. She ultimately
and sample harvest of misery and disconteot. These
cieeeleies, it. is ennieiently•
amid
never married a person named Medhurst, now a stoker in
a Calais eteam-boat, upon which his Lordship dis-
bare arisen from such a cause, had the conduct of
the British Government and Legislature been uni. continued his allowanCe, and said the prisoner was old
esteugh to shift for himself. lie was then about 15
formly under the guidance of lofty,steady, and 'con-
sisteet principle. It is abundantly clear, we st,,y, years of age, and was engaged by r. allies, a me-
dical gentlemen, who knew his hMistory, to attend
that these calamit'es could never have attained
owir present .nvignittide hum the
restraintsUon hi pm and he would breve
, been still in his ser-
vice if he haul not disliked leaving England to travel
disqualificistiens merely to which the Roman Ca-
upon the Continent. Ile haul Mitten to Lord
belice have been or are now sulth jeered, had
not the hitter been weakened for all good and but his letters had -not been attended to. Ile haul
strengthened for all evil, by the gradual adoption been told his mother was dead.
of a system alike impolitic and willed— a system The prisoner was remanded till Friday.
which treats religious errors as if thee were in them-
BO W.. ST E EET.
selves of no importance to the State—which leaves
sett of the Catholic Question altogether, as if they
could memo: or reason be sepirated from it, the
blasphetniFs and idolatries of which eve ry adherent
of the Chinch of Rome must necessarily and habi-
testily be guitty—whieh rests the necessity of their
exclusion from political power upon grounds wholly
secular—and which thus admits in effect that the
minimum of disqualification necessary for the attain.
ment of certain secular
.objects, is the problem to be
practically solved, and the object at which every
libe-
ral and enlightened statesirrain ought to ;die. The con-
sequences of this system have been precisely such as
it deserved and was calculated to produce. Con-
ussion after concession has been made - to the Ca-
tholics, Each of which, eagerly sol:glit by them, and
received at first with expres,ion of boundless gra-
titude and satisfaction, has been followed almost
immediately by new demand., to be urged with an
impatience still nmre turbulent, with a violence still
more ungovelmble, by artifices still more odious,
and to be withstood with less and less of conscien-
tious and determined resolution than the demands
which preceded -them, and which had been already
weakly granted. The period we- confidently trust,
has at length arrived when the principles are to
for ever exploded, which reason and expe-
rience. have shown to lead to indefinite com-
pliance with the demands of Popery, and
which threaten not to stop short of establish-
ing this degrading and pestiferous super-
stition, under the express sanction and patronage of
the Stste. The time has arrived for the Protestant

Legislature of the Empire to show that it van repel
encroachment, and.even if necessary that it can take
hack some of the gifts it has too prodigally and un-
guardedly bestowed, and which have been ungrate-
fully and perniciously used. To this effect the Bri-
tish Nation has already spoken, and the Legi4atUre
will not fail to re-echo its yoke. When the moment

is so near which must put an end to all iincertainty
!aid conjecture, it would be idle to enter into any
speculation as to the precise measures which the
Legislature may adopt, at once to place the 40-
man Catholic subjects' of the Empire in a posi-
tion in which they will be likely to acquiesce
peaceably from the utterhopelessness of further

aiteratioli, and the British Church and Constitution
in circumstances of fearless and unassailable seni-
lity. Modified concessions of some description toly
be resolved on, for there are irrrgularities and ano-
malies in the present state or the Catholics which
perhaps it may require some partial concessions to
remove. These, however, can be only of small im-
portance, if effectual measures are at the same time
adopted (as we have no doubt they will be) to du-
piive the Roman Catholic niestE and Demagogues
of the means which they Aare hitherto wielded so
efficaciously for the purposes of dangerous and am-
bitious agitation.--Morning -Post.,

The Earl of Westmorland, Viscount Mel-
ville, Mr. Secretary I'rel, the Chancellor of the Excbefiner,
and Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald, visited the Duke of Wellington
on Tuesday at the Trea s ry.

M. Bermudez, the Spanish Minister, trans-
aetetl business with the Earl of.Alierdeen on Tuesday, at the
office of the Secretary of State for Forcign Affairs.
We are informed that Mr. .oTonnell's fa-
mily, with friends, have engaged apartments at Baits'
'Hotel, Dover-street.

Koan, the actor, arrived at the York Hotel,
Liverpool, on Thu►sday evening last, on his way to his
estate in the Isle of Bute, where, be says, he means to
rusticate for the- winter.

In the early stages of our Parliamentary his-
tory, questions were generally derided •by the aseeitained
understanding of the Assembly—the Howe of Commons,
at that period, never dividing.

We are glad. to hear that tiip,l),ktlic 1116-
mti, following the example of Lon] Radnor, has deter-
Mitied to make a material reduction iti.the number of his.
gamekeepers.

Gtm•lcs Good/ m/ wits yesterday I►laced at the bar
before Mr. Mtssnmt, charged by Iris late master,
Mr. Arthur Geddes, with haviirg robbed him of
•plate to the value of 101)1. and upwards.
Mr. Geddes stated that he is it merchant, and
lives at No. 6, Stafford-row, Buckingham-gate. On
the 19th of last November he hired the prisoner as
footman, and on the 22d of December following he
absconded, taking with him 18 silver dessert spoons,
four sauce-ladles, half a dozen of dessert forks,
spoons, &r., amounting in till to upwards of 1001.,
according to a bill furnished to witness by Messrs.
Rundell and Bridge, from whom the plate was pur-
chased. The prisoner had the charge of the plate
in the day-time, and at night it was brought up
stairs and put under lock :Ind key. The prisoner
took with him curry portable article of plate he
could xvith coureitience carry. Witcess never saw
him from the morning he abSconded until he was
taken by Taunton, the officer.
Mrs. Charlotte Geddes is the wife of the first
witness. Two hours before the prisoner absconded
sire saw the p!ate safe in the pantry. At two
o'clock the cook came up stairs and told her that
Charles was gone, and that she could not find the
plate.
The cook of Mr. Geddes proved that on the day
when the prisoner absconded he left the house at
about one o'clock, taking with him a pitcher, saying
that he was going to fetch some spring water. The
prisoner did not room From the time of his go-
ing until the plate was missed, 110 other person
could have entered the house.

Mr. Geddes stated that this was all the evidence
he wav embled to procure. Every exertion had
been made to discover the plate, but without effect.
Mr. 111INSPIt3ll asked Mr. Geddes if he despaired
of tracing his property ; if so, there was sufficient
evidence to send, the prisoner to
Mr. Geddes replied that he had no expectation of

It is now said, in Westminster-hall that the
Law Commissioners- will report in favour of an increase of
the Judges to the number of fourteen instead of fifteen, as
originally' understood. It is the opinion, however, of
those who are not in the road themselves to Judgeships,
but who well understand this subject, that no additional
Judges are required in the Common Law. Some time
ao a statement was published, by which it appeared that
the . Puisnc Barons of the Exchequer are only employed 240
hours or 30 days at Westminster during the year, and that
in the same period the Puiane Judges of the Common Plvas
sit in their Court 320 hours only, or 40 days. This
calculation will be found correct. All these functionaries
receive salaries of 5,500/. per annum—that is, as much
as their brethren the Pnisne' Judges of the King's Bench ;
and perhaps in the whole rai, of patronage in the gift of
the Crown, there is nothing better (except in the Church)
than the PuisneJudgeships in the Exchequer and Common
Pleas. It is proved •by the greater quantity of work done
in the King's BenCh that the public have not as much
service performed in the„other Courts of Common Law as
might fairly be expected. - This observation 'is made with
no intention to .disparage any of the individuals on the
benches, of those Courts—the fact complained Of originates
in no neglect imputable to them. But though this be so,
this fact admits of the possibility of an arrangement by
which the public may be spared the creation of new
officers with these large salaries. It is 00 answer to'say
that the Circuits require more Judges Those Jodge,
Rho ale now so many months unemployed might be longer
on the Circuit than the others,- for which purpose the Cir-
cuits might be altered ; or they might go into some
counties where the business is greatest three times a year.
At any rate, when six Judges, or half the number of the
_whole, are so little engaged, it is monstrous to propose to
augment the number. Should such a measure he forced
upon ParliaMent, what a mockery will it be of that system
of retrenchment, the imperious necessity of which has
been alledged as the justification for cashiering so many
subordinate and friendless officers in the various depart,
meal of Government ;.—Morning Chronicle. •

t,e;nv enabled to recover a single article.
The prisoner declined to say anything, and he
was fully committed to Newgate.
MAKI,BOROUGILSTREET.
Yesterday Sir G. FARRANT, Mr. CONANT, and
Mr. SAUNIMIS, a county Magistrate, were occu-
pied from one o'clock until five in the afternoon in

the renewed investigation of the case which invol-
, red an information preferred at the instance of the
Marquis Camden by the district-surveyor, against
the Earl of Belfat, which charged that his Lord-
ship had committed a breach of the Building Act,
and caused a nuisance to his neigbboUr by opening
a window from an apartment in the upper part of his
Lordship's house, No. 22, Arlington-street, Picca-
dilly, through a hitherto blind wall, looking into the
court-yard in front of the Marquis Camden's resi-
denre, No. 23, in the same street.
Mr. Nash was summoned, and stated, that the
wall in question, which he had examined, was, to a
certain height from the ground, a party wall, because
it separated the house of Lord Belfast for that space
from a corridor belonging to the Marquis Camden's
court-yard ; but that thence upwards it could not
be called a party wall, as there was no other build-
ing abutting upon it, and a party wall was clearly
only such when it separated two buildings; and,
therefore, when the window was made, could not be
a parry wall, but an external a' I. lie had no in.
terest, he said, in giving evidence upon this matter,
for both the noble persons in dispute were his pri-
ate friends. Mr. Nash explained further his view
of the question by pointing out the situation of the
premises on a model which had been prepared for
the purpose of the ,investigationottal he did so in
the most clear and satisfactory manner imaginable,
with one slight exception, that although he declared
that it was only the lower part of this wall that was
a party wall, and that the tipper part was not so, he
laid it down as an established principle, that if one
it eh of a wall at its base be a party wall, the
-whole wall to its utmost height bears the same
character.

In the end ale Magistrates declined coming to
a►►y decision on the
.point twill they shall themselves
have had an inspection of the locus in quo ; but
their present opinion decidedly seemed to be, that
the tvall was a party wall, and that Lord Belfast
had no right to open the window.
tiArrow.GARDEN.

During the last five or six mcn►ths the offence of
exposing ehildren in the streets within the district
of this office has become strangely prevalent, and its
practice carried o:► to a degree of extent unprece-
dented at any former period. Such children are not
i►► general admitted into the Foundling Hospital,
and the burden necessarily Fills upon the parish of
St, eaecras, within which the Foundling is situ-
ated ; and this
_produces, on the part of the parish,
'complaints almost every \\Tel( to the magistrates of
this office of the increasing magnitude of the evil it
is thug subjected to, and has fixed in the proper pa-
rochial authorities a resolution' to prosecute with the
utmost rigour every individual detected -in au of-
fence, which to them must
,be productive of the
most grievous consequences. Accordingly, a young
woman, who gave the name of Louisa Hatukcs,
apparently about 20 years of age, was yesterday
brought up before the sitting magi crate, Mr.
ROGERS, from the workhouse of St. Pancras,
charged with exposing a . female infant, five weeks
old, at _the gate of the Foundling Hospital on the
evening of the 27th of January.
This was a re-examination, from vidi;ch it appeared
that ps. soon as it seas dark on the above evening,
the prisoner deposited her. child in a basket at the
lodge gate of the Foundling Hospital, and having
knocked and rung the porter's bell, walked away
veryideliberately: She was observed bq a watch-
man of the name of Aldridge, who, as soon as the
alarm was given at the Foundling, took her into cus-
tody. She confessed the child to be her own, and