The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-07 00:00:00

" TO TILE EDITOR (8' T,IIE TIMES.

" reasons you stated in your article of
yesterday
have induced the Spaniards recently ar-
rived in London from the dungeons of Portugal to
assemLla and appoint a committee for the purpose
you pointed oat, 4nd their choice has fallen upon us,
" Too devotedly attached to our companions in
Knisfortune to decline any service we might be ca-
pable of performing fur them,lwe have not hesitated
`to accept the trust confided to us, and to commen.c.e
the discharge of it the moment circumstances shall

enable us. At .the same time we beg leave to ex-
press our gratitude for the interest which on this as
well as on so many other occasions you have taken
in the Spanish refugees, and our hope that, consistent
in your generous course, you will continue your ef-
forts in favour of unfortunate men, who are suffering
a fate they have not merited, and which it was not
in their power to avoid.
" Having thus fulfilled our first duty, we avail
ourselves of this opportunity to return our thanks
to the illustrious Sir Francis Burdett for his gene-
rous donation, and we venture to hope that his
noble example will be followed by other persons in
circumstances to admit of their contributing to the
relief of the unfortunate Spaniards whom we repre-
sent, and who are the only refugees that, as a body,
receive no allowance of any kind, though they do
not need assistance less than the others, nor are less
deserving of the sympathy of the English nation.
In announcing ourselves to you, and through
the medium of your Journal to the public, as a
Committee representing the suffering victims
who have just been dismissed from the prison-hulks
in which Don Miguel had buried them, we consider
it our duty to declare, that without your aid—with-
out the cooperation of the other organs of the pub-
lic opinion—without the protection and generosity
of the English people, who have dispensed, and still
dispense, so many benefits to the other Spanish
emigrants—our task will be undertaken in vain, and
our unfortunate constituents will perish of hunger
and nakedness on the very soil where they hoped to
find charity and enjoy freedom. But if, we are
bound to believe, you and the public will assist us—
if in, the way you have proposed, or by other means
which may be suggested, some building might be
obtained for them to live in altogether and make a
common stock, the expense of maintaining would
not be considerable, and the hard lot of these un-
fortunate men would be greatly alleviated.
" At all events we are determined that publicity
and frankness shall govern our transactions if we are
enabled to act at all. In proportion as money may
be received, it shall be deposited in the hands of a
banker, whose name will be advertised. The distri-
bution will be made methodically, and under an order
signed by at least three of the committee. Every
three months the accounts will be regularly made up,
and we shall request the gentlemen who form the
English Committee for the Relief cf the Spanish
and Italian Refugees to examine them. We shall
then transmit them to you and to the other Journals
of this Metropolis to be published, in order that the
donors may know not only the amount of the money
expended,—and in what form and to what persons,
but what funds, if any, remain behind.
" It remains for us to beg of you, Sir, that you
will take the trouble to receive any donations which
may be made at your office, and announce them to
the public. By this means the notices in your
Journal, and the entries in the book of the com-
mittee, will be proofs at once of the generosity of
the English people, and of the fidelity with which
their charity has been distributed. We are, &c.
" JOSE MARIA DE TORRIJOS, General.
" FRANCISCO VALDES, Colonel.
" JUAN LASANA, Colonel.
" PEDRO CASASOLA, Colonel.
" YGNACIO LOPEZ PINTO, Commandant.
" BENITO LOSADA, Commandant.
" RAMON BARRERA, Captain.
" ANTONIO RUBIO, Captain."

There is no " Catholic Question" now to
stand in the way of the suppression of disgrace-
ful outrages in Ireland. Why, then, are they
not suppressed ? The public are at the expense
of an immense military force to preserve the
peace of that country, and yet its peace is not
preserved. The system of " Agrarian warfare"
is extending instead of diminishing its ravages.
We gave, a few days ago, an account from one
of our correspondents, of the new and midnight
agitator, Terry Alt, who, he states, has got
nearly three baronies of the county of Clare
under his dynasty of intimidation, to which, we
presume, many landlords find it expedient to give
in their adhesion. On the authority of another of
our correspondents, we publish to-day an ac-
count of a fatal encounter between a body of
Rockites and a party of police. The time of
action was, of course the night—for Captain
Rock's men are only brave in the dark. It is then
they scour the country to plunder arms, to burn
houses, and execute the laws of their chieftain
upon the marked victims of their system with •
the most ingenious varieties of torture and death.
The encounter to which we have adverted took
place in the neighbourhood of Maryborough. A
body of Itockites, supposed to be about fifty in
number, had surrounded the house of a Protes-
taut farmer, and compelled him to purchase his
life by the surrender of his fire-arms. He was
in the act of handing them out at the window,
when a small party of policemen surprised
the banditti, and fired a volley upon them,
which was returned. An engagement followed,
preparatory to which the Rockites gallantly
entrenched themselves behind the farmer's
cattle, having that tender regard for their
own lives which generally distinguishes
all ruffians who are profuse of the blood of others.
Neither their courage nor their " fbrtifications"
availed the nocturnal assassins long. The 50
Agrarian " warriors" were routed by five police-
men, which shows that their taste for murder is
not accompanied by a relish for much fighting.
The serjcant who commanded the police was
severely wounded ; one of the Itockites re-
mained a prisoner, and the flight of several of
them was tracked by their blood. This affair is
important, as showing how small a force of de-
termined men it requires to protect the lives and
properties of peaceable people from the outrages
of those organised bands of ruthless savages who
have now been for years exercising their " reign
of terror" in the most populous parts of Ire-
land, and committing crimes from which huma-
nity recoils. Sudden and summary justice upon
such ruffians, when they are detected jiagranti
delicto, is a much more effective way of' making
a salutary and terrible impression than the more
formal process of the criminal law. It would
not take an energetic Government a long time,
we should think, by a judicious use of the po-
lice and detachments of soldiery, to make Capt.
Rock's men heartily sick of their nocturnal ex-
cursions. It is in vain to talk of the civilization
of Ireland until such systems of barbarous vio-
lence be utterly crushed and exterminated. But
the great functionaries of State seem to be so
much engaged in the very important question,
whether a certain toast be drunk at a Lord
Mayor's dinner, or a certain tune be played by a
Civic band, that they can spare but little time to
attend to the ferocious frolics of the Rockite
barbarians.—Morning Herald.

tract of a letter from Naples :—We have
had, in the rconian ,Stitps, a most extraordinary discovery
of the Necropolis of Vtilci, or Vulcia, in which already no
fewer than 2,000 vases, of the best workmanship and pre-
pervo.tioo, have been found. One-third of these vasei are
inscribed—all, however, with Greek characters, Greek
Personages, and by Greek artists, who are often named,
FIX!: as ANDOCIDES, SOSTI:ENES,
11EGAC)i.r.rI, GLAucoN, and Purnit.os—all of whom either
9
epoicsot 60:11C of the paintings. These disco-
veries
in
i nthe
shape,
hot in red terracotta,
winter.
About 400 plate 9,
notra unlikeil,i
with black figure,,, have also been found, which I imagine
eB. orl
modern b e continues
plates
served for the funeral feast, probably may corn and raisins.
The price of Greek vases is consequently expected to fall.
The collection here, the best in the world, is of course di-
minished in value."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.

It would perhaps be premature to hazard any de-
cided opinion at present with respect to the ultimate
success of the measures adopted by the authorities
at the Home-office for the prevention of crime and
the better security of the public. As far, however,'
as can be judged from the brief experience of a week
the new system appears to work well, and is likely
to accomplish a great portion of the benefits which
its framers were anxious to effect. The manner in
which the night charges are brought forward and
disposed of at this office is a decided improvement
upon the old system ; and, making due allowances
for the inexperience and want of tact of some of the
new patrol, the great majority of whom have yet to
learn their duties as polies-officers, they appear to
conduct themselves with good sense and temper—a
course which is well qualified to give them the con-
fidence of the public. An instance of good conduct
in one of the serjeants of the division under the su-
perintendence of Mr. Thomas occurred on Sunday
night, and ought to be recorded:—
The serjeant, in going along Holborn, at eleven
o'clock, found a decent-looking man lying in the
kennel, near the pavement, in a state of intoxication.
He raised him up, but found all attempts useless
either to make him stand upon his legs or mention
who he was, or whence he came, so far was he
overpowered by the effects of drink. One of the
patrol happening to pass at the time, the serjeant,
with his assistance, placed the man against a shop-
door, and discovered that he had something grasped
firmly in his hand, upon opening which it was found
to contain a roll of Bank-notes. One of the inspec-
tors came by at the time, to whom the serjeant re-
ported the circumstance, and received the directions
of his (Slicer to remove the man to the watch-house,
and take charge of the money which was found in
his possession. The man was removed to the watch-
house accordingly, where his name and address was
ascertained. Upon sending an officer to his lodg-
ings, however, it was found that his wife was nearly
as drunk as himself, and that the landlord of the
house was in the same condition. Under these cir-
cumstances the serjeant determined to keep the man
all night in the watch-house, as the surest means of
securing the Bank-notes which were found upon
him, and which amounted to the sum of 3504 He
accordingly took a memorandum of the numbers and
amount of the notes, and made a return of them to
his inspector. In the morning, when the man re-
vived, his alarm was extreme upon finding where he
was and that his money was gone. lie was soon
undeceived, however, and received back his roll
of notes, expressing his gratitude to the ser-
jeant, and insisting upon his acceptance of a sove-
regn as a small remuneration for the trouble he had
taken. The serjeant, obedient to his orders, de-
clined to accept the proffered reward without the
sanction of his superiors, observing that he had only
done his duty. The circumstance having been re-
ported to the police commissioners, the conduct of
the serjeant was highly commended, and it was sig-
nified to him that there was no objection to his tak-
ing the sovereign. The commissioners added, that
while they should always set their faces against any
thing which wore the appearance of a bribe or re-
ward for the performance of their duty, the patrol
were to understand that where they had performed
essential service to individuals, and had acted in a
like praiseworthy manner, there would be no objec-
tion to their receiving a moderate recompence, pro-
vided it was the free and spontaneous gift of the
party to whom the benefit was rendered. Sir R.
Birnie, to whom the above circumstance was re-
parted, by Mr. Thomas, the supervisor, in whose
division it occurred, commended the conduct of the
serjeant, observed, that by a steady pursuance of
such a course the new police would soon obtain the
estimation of the public.
Yesterday a young man of respectable appearance
named Thomas Preston, was brought in custody
from the King's Bench prison, by order of the Mar-
shal, charged before Mr. Mammas. with having
fraudulently obtained the sum of 14/. 6s. from a per-
son named Stumbkie, a tailor, residing in Oxendon-
street, by means of a false cheque.
The daughter of Mr. Stumbkie appeared to pre-
fer the charge, but in answer to a question by the
Magistrate, she said that the prisoner had satisfied
her father, who did riot mean to proceed.
Mr. MINSHULL appeared surprised, and said he
did not exactly know what was meant by being
" satisfied." The prisoner was krought before him
on a charge of fraud, and, sitting there as a Magis-
trate, lie could not listen to any thing in the shape
of satisfaction or arrangement. The Magistrate
then asked why Mr. Stumbkie himself was not
present.
_ _

Miss Stumbkie replied, that her father was unable
to attend owing to•illness. He had told her, how-
ever, that he had no desire to press the charge.
Mr. Leadley, the clerk, said that the prisoner had
been at Marlborough-street dice some time ago,
charged with a like offence.

At.. MINSHULL observed that the circumstance
was an additional reason for his detaining the prisoner.
A friend of the accused represented to the Ma-
gistrate, that as the transaction between Mr. Stumb-
kie and the prisoner had taken place two years ago,
it was one in which a Magistrate ought not to in-
terfere.

Mr. MtNsituu, said, however, that he certainly
should have no hand in compounding the matter,
and should certainly not discharge the prisoner, but
as the warrant had been granted by Sir B. BIRNIE,
he would leave the disposal of the case to that
magistrate.
The prisoner was then taken back to the King's
Bench prison, to be brought up on a future day.