The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The present season is remarkable
for the displays of Conservative wisdom which
agricultural dinners afford Conservative Mem-
bers of Parliament-an opportunity of exhibiting
in the presence of their constituents. Grand
Conservative festivals are few and far between.
Intercourse between the supporters of the Go-
vernment Corn-law, Tariff, and Income-tax, and
those who—contrary to the promises and pledges
by which they ware induced to vote—are sub-
jected to the changes and charges thus imposed,
was not likely to be the most cordial. The con-
vivialities of the feast were in danger of being
spoiled by the clamours of a fray. Conserva-
tive festivals are hence of rare occurrence
during the present Parliamentary recess. Agri-
cal tural dinners are, however, somewhat more
select. They are not expressly got up for the
purpose of listening to speeches explanatory
and justificatory, from the representatives
r,f the county, and the boroughs within the
ra-rxe of the association. Still the Members,
especially- the county Members, are expected to
attend ; and the staple of their after-dinner
speeches consists of allusions to the state of the
lives which " protect" the agricultural interests
—the opposition to those laws—and their opinion
the laws themselves, and of the changes (if
any) threatened or effected. Hence, agricul-
tural dinners are now the occasions on which the
reoresentatives of the rural districts address
themselves to their constituents on the change
eCieeted in the Corn-laws during the last session
or' Parliament, and on the Tariff, which was a
twin measure; both of which were viewed with
a'arui by the agriculturists. The Banbury
Apicultural dinner, held last week—like that
or:he Midland Counties, to which we referred
yesterday—was the scene of some rather strange
" explanations" from the Members of the
c.;anty ; which—as they 'may be regarded
a 3 the apologists of their class, and not merely
o!' the individual gentlemen who gave utterance
to the sentiments they expressed—deserve to
be examined, that it may be seen how far the
explanations can be received and the apologies
accepted. At this dinner Lord Norreys, one of
the county Members, entered upon his defence
against the pretty general imputations of his
ceestittients. The line adopted by his Lordship
tires curious, and the failure, in our opinion,
siseial and complete. The drift of the defence
w.ts nothing less than confession, with a plea in
ahatement. The alteration in the Corn-law was
inevitable; and resistance to it, when proposed by
Sir R. Peel, would have been vain. "Every
uuan knew it was hopeless; it was madness to at-
tempt to maintain -the old law." According to
the Noble Lord, some change in the Corn-law
was admitted on all hands to be necessary, even
before the last Session of Parliament commenced.
The Royal Speech, at the opening of Parliament,
had alluded to the subject; and the House had
responded to the Speech, and promised to take
the Corn-laws into its consideration. If a change
was to be made in those laws, no one could ex-
pect an alteration which would impose a higher
scale of duties ; and if not a higher, then a lower.
Sir. Robert Peel took his stand upon the plans
he proposed. If he had been defeated, as lie
mast have been but for the support of his party,
on the protection he proposed, the Right Hon.
Baronet would have resigned; and then Lord
John Russell, and the Whigs, would have come
in, and the eight-shilling duty, instead of the
" siiding-scale," would have been the consequence.
STANDARD.—The progress of the Special
Commission presents many claims to attention ;
the greater number of these claims will be pro-
perly- deferred until the facts in which the late
th:sorders originated, which gave to them their
peculiar character, and so long a continuance,
shall have been fully developed by the examina-
tion of witnesses. There is one consideration,
however, which must arrest the public notice at
once, the manner, namely, in which the Govern-
'Tient conducts its prosecutions. The manner is
characterised by a degree of temperance and dig-
nity of which it would be difficult to find an ex-
ample even in this country, where the law has,
more than in any other, manifested that quality
of benignant majesty by which the visitations
of. justice ought always to be distinguished.
We • had the pleasure yesterday to present
the charge of the Chief Justice Tindal. It
would be, perhaps, an insult to the general
character of our judges, and to the admirable
Magistrate concerned, to dwell much at length
upon this excellent address. For more than
a century English judges have known how to
honour their station in the discharge of the high
duties assigned to them; and none who within
thAt period have occupied the bench, was better
qualified to adorn that place than the present
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. His charge
was just what, in the circumstances, the charge
of a Judge ought to be—just what was expected
from Sir Nicholas Tindal. The Times has this
morning, in a very able article, pointed to some of
the valuable truths so eloquently inculcated by
the Learned Chief Justice, as well as to the gene-
ral tone of the charge; and even if we were at
present concerned to treat of his Lordship's
share in the proceedings of the Commission,
which in our view we are not, the matter is
thus taken out of our hands. We would consider
time Special Comission as what it is—the painful
sequel of the late disorders—the close of a new
ex?:!riment in the science of practical govern-
ment; and as such it will be found harmo-
nising exactly with the conduct of the Execu-
tive throughout. But this is a consideration
in which the deportment of a Judge, who in
time exercise of his office is high above the Execu-
tive, can have nothing to do. The first mani-
festation of the spirit of the Executive which
time proceedings afford, will be found in the
opening speech of the Solicitor-General. And
here will be seen at once the mild temper which
has characterised the conduct of the Government
throughout the whole of its painful and delicate,
1)0 t momentous task. Sir W. Follett states the case
against the unhappy persons accused as candidly
and coldly as if he were a Judge reading the mi-
nutes of evidence already given, but without the
least of that affectation of candour and coldness
so often insidiously employed to entrap a jury.
The reader will look in vain to the Solicitor-
General's speech for any instances of that per-
suasive eloquence which has raised him to the
first rank of Parliamentary speakers, or of the
invnuity that has elevated him to the very first
place at the bar. The Learned Gentleman
speaks as an intelligent and high-minded gen-
tleman.WoUld speak, if compelled to tell an un-
pleasant truth, or, if we can imagine the thing,
as a lawyer would speak, for the stake of justice,
and justice only, and with that bias which
ail reflecting men are apt to entertain against
the infallibility, of their own judgment. Now,
let this style of an opening address by a
Crown 'prosecutor be compared with what has
been customary upon similar occasions,
even in our own happy country—let it be
compared with what occurred at Bristol, Not-
tingham, Derby, and Monmouth, , even within
the last fewears such a comparison will il-
lustrate the difference between a strictly Con-
se:•vative Government and a party Government,
whether the party be called Whig or Tory. Were
we to cross the Channel, and look for a contrast
in the Crown proSecutions in other. countries, the
lesson would be still more striking, and our Con-
ttaental neighbours might find in it the solution
or that enigma which has so much perplexed
them for the last few months, the facility with
which disorders are put down in England, by
little more than the name -of the law—would
learn that the law commands much reverence
England, because it is what law ought to.fbe—
wind without passion—because it is rarelyi ever
alni4d to party or personal purposes,_wehav and never
so- abused with impunity.however.. ,
called the present a new experiment, ande so. it is;
but the novelty is not in the principle, but in the
application.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

rnox THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 9 per
Tnilie, which, at the English Mint price of 3L 17s.
101 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex-
&flange of 25 38, and the exchange at Paris on Lon-
con at short being 2.5 60, it follows that gold is
0.58 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburgh, the price of gold is
431 per mark, which at the English Mint price of
3'. 17s. 1011 per ounce for standard gold, gives an
exchange of 13 8, and the exchange at Hamburgh on
at short being 13 91, it fellows that gold is
0.,56 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgli.
,The course of exchange at New York on London
is 107; per cent., and the par of exchange between
England and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it
fo;lows that the exchange is 1.83 per cent. against
Ene;land ; but the quotays, ed esxictn, gt,l at. Newt
s York
being for bills at 60 d
bd deducted from the above diflerencee intere-
must
COST.—At the Stock Exchange, there is an
almost total absence of activity. Indeed, at ' stills p 1
of business, so greatly diminished as it is, thele
propo-
sition for a reduction of the hours devoted to it may
easily be complied with. It is understood that the
private bankers generally have signed an agreement
to this effect„ It is intended that, for the future,
nothing shalfbe done over the counter later than four
o'clock- in the afternoon, so that the duties of the
clearing-house will have to be got through at the
corresponding early hour of three o'clock. It will be
necessary, moreover, that the Stock Exchange should
close its doors at that time of the day, and, the ar-

rangements of the private bankers being completed
upon the plan proposed, there seems to be no altema-
five for that establishment but to acquiesce in the
measure. The banking and stock jobbing transac-
tions of Pees and other great Continental cities oc-
cupy much less time than they have heretofore done
in London, and although there is no reason why the
latter should, as a general principle, look to its infe-
riors in importance for an example in matters of corn-
mercial discipline, there would appear to be in all
cases more than is needed for the dispatch of legiti-
mate and actual business. The dealings at the Stock
Exchange here conducted as they are upon the li-
mited scale indicated, may be got through an hour or
two earlier each day than they are at present just as
well as not. To remain in attendance from ten
o'clock till four, as is now the practice, must be irk-
some to the jobbers and brokers, and gambling or
unprofitable speculation is often resorted to as a means
of whiling away the time. The proposed change
seems to meet the wishes of many parties engaged in
mercantile affairs.
CHRONICLE.—The special mission of Mr. Ellis
to Brazil is exciting interest in the City, but the rea
purpose of his embassy does not appear to be dis- l
tinctly understood. We believe it to be of a very
important nature :—first, to adjust the term of expiry
of the existing commercial treaty with this country;
and secondly, to negotiate for a renewal on favourable
terms. The slave question and the marriage of the
Emperor and his sister being accessories.
The point at issue regarding the continuance of
the existing treaty is one of much consequence to
British merchants. Both Governments being agreed
as to its first and specific endurance of fifteen years,
from November, 1827, that is, until November,
.1842 ; but a difference has arisen in consequence of
an ambiguity of expression respecting its absolute
endurance, it being provided that the treaty shall
continue for a "further term on two years' previous
notice from eithaer party. The Brazilian Government
gave notice two years back that they held the treaty
at an end in November, 1842, whereas the British
Government maintain that this notice can only take
effect from November next ; thus preserving the sub-
sistence of the present tariff on both sides until No-
vember, 1844. The Brazilian Congress, however,
has given authority to their Minister of Finance to
levy new duties on British imports, from and after
November, 1842 ; and one main object of the special
mission to Rio is, without doubt, to prevent the Bra-
zilian Government from putting that authority in force.
It is surmised that Mr. Ellis will propose
a compromise, continuing the present tariff until
November, 1843, in order to give Sir Robert Peel
time to bring round the refractories in his camp to
the admission of Brazilian produce at lower rates ;
and as a sop, to let them down easy, something may
be introduced about the slave-trade. The Brazilian
Government, we believe, have intimated plainly that
they will not renew the present treaty with England,
unless concessions are made to them, lowering the
import duties now levied on their sugars.
The following are the official returns of the exports
of the precious metals from the port of London for
the week ending Thursday last :
Silver coin to Calcutta and Madras 71,000 oz.
71 77 Bombay
„ tars to Calcutta and Madras 52,898
17 Bombay 25,170
Gold coin to Bombay 643
17 I Madras and Calcutta 1,000
91 „ Ceylon

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Oct. 5.
IN RE HOPE AND MORTON.

The bankrupts in this case had carried on an ex-
tensive business' as architects and builders. The
amount of debts in their schedule, as proved against
the joint estate, exceeded 30,000/., for which the separate
estate of Morton was stated to be liable, independent of
the partnership transactions, to about 7,0001. Hope had
likewise been in the habit of dealing largely in horses,
and was the proprietor of a farm in Essex ; and in
connexion with these two matters, had incurred liabi-
lities amounting to upwards of 1,5001. He was en-
titled to certain freehold property is right of his wife,
and it was contended that this should become liable
for the debts which he contracted, individually, in•
stead of being made available to the partnership
estate ; while the solicitor to the fiat alleged that the
Messrs. Macklin of Leeds, the chief private creditors
of the bankrupt Hope, were aware, at the time that
they sold him the horses, by which their debt was in-
curred, that he was under private liabilities.
After the admission of a number of debts against
both the joint and separate estates, Mr. William Luke
was appointed assignee.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.

A very strange charge of felony was brought before
Alderman Wilson yesterday, in the Justice-room. A
man, named Thomas Starr, was brought up in
the custody of a policeman, and accused of having
pulled down a house, and converted the materials to
his own use.
Mr. Humphreys appeared for the prisoner.
Mr. William Wood stated that he was a clerk in
the service of Messrs. Lowe and Sweeting of South-
ampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, solicitors, who acted
for Mrs. Mary Levy, the wife of Alexander Levy,
Newton, and others, who hail a life-interest in certain
houses in Broker's-gardens, Leadenhall-street. About
four or five days ago he authorised the prisoner to
to take down the chimney and part of the roof of
No. 3, Broker's-gardens, one of the houses included
in that property, in consequence of the prisoner's re-
presentation that the chimney was in a very dan-
gerous state, and could not stand an hour. On
Tuesday morning the prisoner called on him at his
employer's office, and stated that he had taken down
the chimney and part of the roof, according to the
directions, and he wished witness to meet him on the
premises, as he was anxious to take two or three of
the houses upon a lease, 'Witness promised to meet,
him, and went accordingly to Broker's-gardens, in the
afternoon, and found to his astonishment, that nearly
half of the house had been pulled down, and that the
materials had been removed. His surprise
was not diminished when the prisoner said
to him, " You have brought me into a pretty
hobble." He replied, " Hobble, indeed ! who au-
thorised you to pull down the house to the extent you
have done ?" The prisoner asserted that witness had
given him authority to do as had been done, and
upon being asked what he had done with the mate-
rials, stated that he had disposed of the bricks and
tiles, and was at that moment in possession of the
money. Witness thereupon gave the prisoner into
custody of the policeman, who was present, on the
charge of stealing the materials of the house, part of
which he had been employed to pull down.
Alderman WILSON—You limited your directions
to the chimney and the part of the roof which was
damaged? Witness--Certainly ; we had no right to
issue any orders such as the prisoner pretends he re-
ceived.AHl
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went on Tuesday to Broker's-gardens, and saw some
men busily employed in pulling down the house No. 3.
The men upon being asked who employed them to
do such a work of destruction, said that they acted
under the orders of a man who was up stairs.
The prisoner soon after appeared, and said he had au-
thority to pull the concern to pieces, but should give
no information to witness upon the subject. Witness
observed to him that it was impossible he could have
had such authority, as the house was part of entailed
freehold property in the custody of the Court of
Chancery, and desired that he would discontinue such
unsanctioned proceedings.
Alderman WILSON asked whether Mr. Hart had
peremptorily directed the prisoner to abstain from the
work ha was superintending ?—The Witness said he
had called upon the prisoner to abstain, but the reply
was, " if I have done wrong give me in charge." The
prisoner then declared that Mr. Wood, of Chancery-
lane, had employed him to do the business, and wit-
ness sent for Mr. Wood, who stated distinctly what
had been mentioned by him in his evidence, and wit-
ness having said to Mr. Wood, that, as a professional
man, he must know how to proceed, the latter gave
the prisoner into the custody of the police. At the
station -house witness had a conversation with the pri-
soner and one of the men who had been pulling down
the house, and had been also given in custody to the
police, and the latter said he had sold three cart loads
of bricks and tiles to a Mr. Folgate, by the direction
of the prisoner, at the rate of 16s. per 1,000, and
that he had paid over to the prisoner at the rate of
14s. per 1,000, a statement which the prisoner ad-
mitted was correct. Witness then asked the prisoner
what he had done with the lead, and the reply was
that there had been no lead in the house at all.
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daily from his own residence. About nine or ten
days ago he first saw the prisoners at work about the
house in Broker's-gardens, now partly pulled down.
The lead gutters were then up, and in their place on
the top of the house. Since that time he had seen
the house being pulled down, and four or five cart-
loads of bricks removed, the prisoner being present,
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Joseph Whitney, a chimney-sweeper, statedthat he
resided in a house opposite to that which had been
partly pulled down. About nine or ten days ago he
saw the prisoner open the door of the house alluded to
in the charge, and go in with two or three other per-
sons. From curiosity he followed, and went over the
house with the prisoner, who said that he was about
to take it, and that he intended to use it as a Sunday
school.—(A laugh.) On Saturday last witness saw a
quantity of bricks and tiles moved from the house,

and he informed Mr. Wood of the circumstance, who
requested him to tell the prisoner not to move another
brick until he (Mr. Wood) should see him on Mon-
day. When witness took the message the prisoner
desired him to mind his own business, and that if Mr.
Wood had anything to say he ought to come and say
it himself.
Horan, a policeman, deposed that he found the
prisoner engaged with four other men in pulling
down the house, and, at the request of Mr. Hart,
ordered him to.desist. He, subsequently, by the di-
rection of Mr. Wood, took the prisoner into custody,
and asked him where the keys of the house were.
According to the prisoner's direction, he received the
' keys at the prisoner's house, next door; and, upon
going down stairs, he found on the ground-floor 15
window-sashes, with the glass partly in, of which he
took possession by the direction of Mr. Hart.
Wade, another policeman, deposed, that, on Friday
or Saturday last, he saw a quantity of bricks being
removed from Broker's gardens in a cart. He went
to the house No. 3, and there saw the prisoner en-
gaged in lowering the bricks in a basket. The pri-
soner said to him that he had received orders from
Mr. Wood to pull the house down, as it had been
condemned by the City Surveyors, and that he had,
; therefore, erected a hoarding, which some one had
been pulling down, and he wished witness to have a
' look-out. On Saturday, however, the prisoner was
given into his custody.
Mr. Folgate stated that he occasionally purchased
old materials, and that a man, named Page (one of the
men employed by the prisoner), had sold him 750
bricks, at the rate of 16s. a thousand, and 1,000 plain
tiles. Witness had had but two cart-loads.

Page stated that the prisoner had employed him to
pull the house down and to sell the bricks.
Alderman WthsoN asked Mr. Humphreys what
answer he had to make to such a charge ?
Mr. Humphreys submitted that there could have
been no felonious intent upon the part of his client,
who had acted in a manner the most public.
Alderman WILSON could not see how a man could
pull down a house privately.—(A laugh.)
Mr. Humphreys--I do not mean that. I mean
that his conduct in going to Mr. Wood, and request-
ing him to meet him at the house showed that he had
no felonious intention. There are several persons
who can vouch for his integrity.
Alderman WILSON—But he was not satisfied with
exceeding the orders given him by Mr. Wood. He
not only pulled down but he sold the materials.
Mr. Humphreys—What was to pay the men for
their labour ? We do not find that they were paid
by anybody, and he was responsible.
Alderman WiLsos—The person who gave the
order to prevent the danger arising from the state of
the chimneys and roof would have found means
of paying.
Mr. Hart—They pulled down very nearly two
stories, and no doubt from the way in which they
worked they would have had the whole levelled in a
very short time. We have more witnesses to prove
that more bricks were taken to other places.
Alderman WiLsos—l am satisfied that the mate-
rials were taken with a felonious intention, and I shall
send the case to a Jury.
A man of respectable appearance here said that the
prisoner was a very honest man, and incapable of
doing wrong intentionally.
Alderman WILSON—He may have been honest up
to this transaction ; kit certainly this is not such a
dealing as is calculated to support a good character.
Mr. Hart—What is to be done with the bricks and
tiles ?

Alderman WnsoN—Mr. Folgate is responsible for
the safe custody of them. If the prisoner is convicted
they must be delivered up to the prosecutor.
'the prisoner was then committed for trial.
GUILDHALL.
William Edwards a well-dressed young man, was
charged with defrauding Mr. George Eastwood, dealer
in gold and silver coins, of a cabinet of gold and silver
coins of the value of 521.

Mr. Eastwood stated that about three months ago
the prisoner called upon him, and said that if prosecu-
tor would let him have a cabinet of selected coins, he
knew a gentleman who would purchase them. He gave
him a cabinet of coins, with a proviso that he should
return the coins in the evening, in case the gentleman
did not purchase them, but he had not seen them since.
Mr. T. Adams, f 20, Bridge-street, Lambeth,
pawnbroker, proved that the brother of the prisoner,
who was in Court to watch the case on the part of
the prisoner, had pledged part of the coins with him.
The MAGISTRATE then ordered the brother to be
taken into custody.
The prisoner, in his defence, said that the coins were
sold to him, although no bill passed between the parties.
It appeared the coins were principally Justinians,
being copies of originals, and worth about 2/. 10s. each.
The MAGISTRATE, on the recommendation of the
prosecutor, treated the case as one of illegally pawn-
ing, and fined the prisoner in the value of the coins,
521., and 20s. to the Queen.