The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 9. 1842. (7

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.)
The House sat to-day to hear Scotch Appeals. The Peers
present were—the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, and Lord
Campbell.

Mr. LEWIS—The plate has not been paid for yet.
The ComatisstoNE it—l can't consider that the property of
Mr. Mathews.
The insolvent was then ordered to be discharged forthwith.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

MARLBOROUGHSTREET.
(THIS DAY.)
Eliza Gosling, who, during the last four years, has been
repeatedly brought before this Court, and has passed at least
ten months out of twelve in gaol, was again brought up for
drunken and disorderly conduct. So violent is her conduct
generally, that of late the precaution of handcuffing her before
she is placed at the bar is invariably adopted.
Police-constable, No. 145 of the C division, stated that about
half-past one o'clock this morning, as he was proceeding on duty
along New Bond-street, he found the prisoner sitting on the
step of a door, completely naked : her clothes, which she
had taken i f I.ing beside her, and amusing herself by singing
or rather shrieking out at the top of her voice " Heel a heart
for falsehood framed," &c. Witness desired 'her to dress, and
put her elt:thes on, but she refused, and vociferated a torrent of
abuse, abounding with the most grossly obscene expressions at
him, and he was ultimately obliged to send for the police
stretcher, and with the assistance of several other constables
conveyed her to the station-house.
Eliza—Dn you think I was such a fool as to walk when
such skulking lazy fellows as you are prowling
about all night?loo; l'd see you jolly well
Mr. HA DWICK --Eliza, I mast send you for another month.
Eliza—Much obliged to you I am for that kindness.
You've done the like of this several times before, but I'll pay
you out some day. I would not even regret two months if your
worshipful •elf was obliged to sit there till I return.
She was then, after a violent struggle removed to the lock-
up cell.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.
Days and places appointed for holding the Summer Assizes,
in the sixth year of the reign of Queen Victoria, before Lord
Chief Justice Tindal and Mr. Justice Erskine.
Berkshire—Monday, July 11, at Abingdon.
Oxfordshire—Wednesday, July 13, at Oxford.
Worcestershire—Saturday, July 16, at Worcester.
City of Worcester—Same day, at the City of Worcester.
Staffordshire—Wednesday, July 20, at Stafford.
Shropshire—Wednesday, July 27, at Shrewsbury.
Herefordshire—Saturday, July 30, at Hereford.
Monmouthshire—Wednesday, August 3, at Monmouth.
Gloucestershire—Saturday, August 6, at Gloucester.
City of Gloucester—Same day, at the City of Gloucester.

ELECTION COMMITTEES.
(THIS DAY.)
CITY OF WATERFORD.
The proceedings of this Committee terminated this morning.
The grounds of the petition against the return of Messrs.
Christmas and Reade were, the improper rejection of an im-
mense number of votes tendered for the Liberal candidate, on
account of what was consid -red an erroneous wording of the
certificates. By the decision of the Committee those rejected
votes were placed on the poll for the petitioners, and thus reversed
the position:of the parties. The late Members being thus ejected,
claim a scrutiny into the votes of the late petitioners, and
opened their case with the vote of Charles Bianconi, which they
applied to have struckloff the poll of Messrs. Barron and Wise.
On the other part, it was contended that the Committee could
not go into a scrutiny at all, as it only had
to try the legality of the return on the grounds
mentioned in the petition. The Committee, on meeting
this day gave its formal decision, that it could not strike off
the vote objected to. Messrs. Barron and Wise, both Libe-
rals,
the Committee contains a special Report to the House, by
are therefore the sitting Members;
which the ejected Members may, if they think fit, apply by a
but the resolution of
petition within fourteen days for a scrutiny.

FIRE IN ELY CATHEDRAL.

ELY, JUNE S.—About eleven o'clock this morning, during
the hour of Divine Service, an alarm was given that the
Cathedral was on fire, which soon showed itself by the flames
to sting through the roof on the north side of the great nave
of the edifice, and really at first sight appeared to set all
attempts to extinguish it at defiance ; but by the greatest
promptitude and alacrity of the citizens, aided by their most
indefatigable exertions, the venerable and magnificent building
was rescued from destruction. The fire originated from the
carelessness of the plumbers engaged in repairing the leadwork
of the Cathedral.

The following hand-bill with reference to the spirited ex-
ertions of the inhabitants has been extensively circulated :
" The Rev. William Selwyn and the Rev. John Ashley, on
behalf of the Dean and Chapter of Ely, present their best
thanks to the inhabitants of the city of Ely, male and female,
by whose most active and willing exertions, the fire which
broke out this morning in the roof of the Cathedral, was, under
the blessing of Almighty God, so promptly extinguished.
" College, Ely, June 8, 1842."

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND

DEATHS.
(racial A CORRESPONDENT.)
When this valuable Act came into 'operation, we were told
that the clergy of the estalishment were most inveterate in
their denunciations of it; but we hoped that after a
short time their hostility would have abated; but it
appears they still negle t no opportunity of expressing
their detestation of this wise and salutary enactment.
A clergyman in the %Vest of England, not 100 miles
from Plymouth, has done much to mislead his parishioners on
the nature of it, and with this view always, when the child is
baptized, inserts in the register of baptism, the date of the
child's birth, in violation of repeated decisions in the Law
Courts to the wantrary.—(See Wihen v. Law, 3 Starkie, 63;
Duins v. Donovan, 3 Haggard, 301; Rex v. Clapham, 4 Car-
rington and Payne, 29). He then tells the parents not to go to
the Registrar ef Births, as his entry of the time of
biith is sufficient. The Registrar has detected many in-
stances already where parents hare been thus misled.
The Reverend Gentleman has also made it his business
to personally wait on the different nurses in his neigh-
bourhood, and caution them not to inform the Registrar of any
births that may take place, threatening them, that if he dis-
covers any births have been registered through their informa-
tion, they will incur his displeasure, and he will withhold from
them their share of the charitable gifts in the disposal of him-
self and: the churchwardens. His anathemas have been also
thundered from the pulpit against the authors of this "wicked
End infidel Act;" and only a few weeks since he refused to
allow a child to be bwied in the churchyard, because the child's
birth had been registered, and it had not been baptised. Some
of the Rev. Gentleman's parishioners have also been guilty of
the awful crime of getting married at the Registry-office and
Dissenting chapels : to those this apostle of Christ holds out
no mercy in this world or.the next; and the poor creatures
are consigned to eternal damnation without any ceremony.
It would fill many columns of your paper: it 1 were to re-
count a tithe of the infamous conduct of the clergy respecting
the registration; and I do hope the present Government will be
informed by the Registrar-General that if the parsons are al-
lowed to.ebstruct the operation of the Act with such impunity,
it will be impossible to give anything like a correct estimate of
the annual number of births; and therefore that the Act should
be extended so as to make the register of births obligatory,
not optional, in order to obtain a complete statistical table in
the Registrar-General's Annual Report.
Ply„t9istoti, St. Mary, Devon, June 6, 1842.

KNIGHTSBRIDGE COMPLETE
SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION.
This Association held its weekly meeting last night, at Thorn-
ton's Coffee-house.
Mr. Thomas was called to the chair.
A Secretary and Treasurer were elected, ant! a committee,
consisting of four electors and five non-electors, chosen by
ballot. A letter was read by the Secretary, Mr. Westerton,
which had been sent to him by a person, whose signature was
" An Honest Elector of Nottingham," and who declared him-
self to be a supporter of " honest John Walter," in answer to
the address of the Association to the electors of that town. If,
to afford amusement, was the object of the writer, he was emi-
nently successful, for the reading of the letter excited repeated
bursts of laughter. In the course of the evening, the follow-
ing resolutions were passed :
" That the Council, at the ame time, record their warmest
thanks to that portion of the public press which has honestly
and temperately advocated the political and social rights of the
people, and trust that such papers and periodicals will always
have the preference in their libraries, reading-rooms, coffee-
houses, and places of public resort.
" That this Council respectfully request that the proprietors
of the newspaper press throughout the kingdom will report
proceedings in connexion with the Complete Suffrage Move-
ment; and this Council will be obliged by copies of any news-
papers, containing such reports, being forwarded to the office of
the Union, at Birmingham, where they will be duly filed; and
this Council further I esolve to pay for all copies of such papers
which may be so forwarded."

THE CHRISTINO-CARLIST CON-

SPIRACY.

The belief has been long current in the higher political cir-
cles of a new Christino-Carlist conspiracy against Espartero, as
Regent of Spain, but no direct proofs of it have as yet been
obtained. Some light is new thrown on this subject by an im-
portant document which has been communicated to us, being a
note written by the ex• Queen, Maria Christina, residing at pre-
sent in Paris, to her brother-in-law; Don Carlos, now a state
prisoner in Bourges. .We subjoin the original letter as well as
a translation.

" A SON ALTESSE ROYALE D.C., INFANT D'ESPAGNE, Bte-
" Par suite de la reponse que vous m'avez faite par l'organe
du General N- a mon premier message verbal, je lie crois
devoir plus limiter de vous temoigner toute la confiance que
m'inspire votre caractere personel. Le sort m'a poursuivi
comme votre Altesse Royale, et ce que plus est, je suis pour le
moment separee de Ines augustes enfans. Au nom de la sainte
religion qut nous anime, ainsi que pour le bien etre des Espag-
nols, qui, entraines par un homme que j'ai comble de mes bien-
faits; peuvent pour un moment avoir oublie leur saint devoir,
nous co-opererons a sine entreprise, qni bien qu'elle n'ait point
reussi a mon gre en Septembre dernie:, ne manquera cepen-
dant par son effet salutaire du moment que nous agissons de
concert. Je souscrirais volontiers aux conditions raison-
nables que vous jugerez a propos de me faire soumettre.
Votre affectionnee,
" Mars 14. " M. C."

" TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS, D.C., INFANT OF SPAIN, &C.
" In consequence of the answer you have given, through
General N—, to my first verbal message, I think I should
not hesitate any longer in testifying to you all that confidence
with which your personal character inspires me. Fate has
persecuted me as well as your Royal Highness, and what is
more, lam for the moment separated from my august children.
In the name of the holy religion which inspires us, as well as
for the good of the Spaniards, who, carried along by a man
whom I have loaded with benefits, may for a moment have for-
gotten their sacred duty, we will combine in an enterprise
which, although it did not succeed as I would have wished
last September, will not fail in its salutary effect from the
moment we act in concert. I would willingly subscribe to
such reasonable conditions as you may deem it expedient forme
to submit tn.—Your affectionate, M. C.
" March 14."

This document will, no doubt, call forth the attention of our
Government, who are entitled to ask-for some explanatiou
from that of France, provided they believe it to be genuine.
We are not without expectation of some further information on
this matter.—Morning Paper.