The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-03 00:00:00

QUEEN-SQUARE.

Yesterday Robeit Corky', sen. was brought beforr!
Mr. MARRIOTT, for final examination, charged with
receiving one 30/. Bank of England note, the prr:-
petty of John Richard Farre, M.D., one of ;he
executors to the late Mrs. Johanna O'Keefe.

In addition to the evidence produced on the pre-
vious day, proving that the bank note belonged to
the late Mrs. O'Keefe, and was changed by the pri-
soner after her demise, Mr. Harmer, who attun:led
for the prosecution, called Mr. Farre and Miss Sprint--
weather. Their evidence was, however, only a re-
uitition of what they stated on the examination or
the prisoner's wife and son, which has already been
published.
Mr. MARRIOTT said that he should be happy if
the prisoner could relieve himself from being in-
volved in the transaction, but he felt it his duty to
commit him for trial. _ .

Application was male to admit the•prisoner in
put in bail for his appearance, which was refused,
and he was fully committed to Newgate.

THE GREAT FONTHILL ESTATE.

Our readers are so familiar with the name of
Beckford, and the beauties of Fonthill, that we
should riot be excused if we were not early in the
field in imparting to them the joyful news that this
seat, so renowned, and associated with our early
and best recollections, was again to be transferred
into other bands. The almost sacred, and certainly
classic grounds and demesne of Fonthill, recall s 1
many and such pleasing feelings, that, seeing by
our advertising department, it is announced for puNie
competition, we shall take especial care to give a
faithful outline of its leading features, for the amit-e-
-mem and (as we hope) gratification of our nume-
rous readers. The übiquitous George Robins (to
whose direction and management appears congre-
gated all the large estates in England) has the good
fortune to introduce this highly favoured property
To public attention. We shall use our infineuc.f?
( which is not imaginary) in arriving at the facts that:
have produced this unexpected sale. All we haves
vet been able to collect is, that Mr. Farquhar ( the
rich East India Nabob) bequeathed it to Ii is
nephew, George Mortimer, Esq.; and although the
will was disputed, the high authorities in Donors"
Commons have not interfered with this bequest in
their late decision ; and the respected owner 1);?iNg
invested with full legal authority, has (in conse-
quence of ill health) commissioned Mr. Robins to
do "his possible" to find a more healthy occupant.
The advertisement imparts much, and it shall he
our business, as faithful narrators, to do the rest:

CONSTANTINOPLE.--It is universally ad-
mitted that the account of this city furnished by Mr.
MADDEN, in his recently-published Travois in Turkry, is
by far the most interesting and satisfactory that has ever
been given to the public, as regards the btate of society in
Turkey, the laws, religion, public buntlines, condition of
the women, marriages, funerals, &c. It is not surprising-
that the Author should be enabled to treat of all these
subjects, since he had access every Where, sud.fretiv ming Ted
with all classes. As a hakhitri, (or physician j, he was
courted by the great, and pestered by the poor ; the doors
of the harem were opened to receive him, and to hint tho
secrets of that prison-houto were unreservedly divulged,

RIDE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—This plac4 has
truly been called the Garden of England. Dest:,ite tit
inauspicious state of the weather, 11v0Q. and its vici-
nity have been crowded by visitorg., arrived to gather.
from the salubrity of the air; the practice of Sea
Bathing, and the delightful walks with which the
place abounds, renovated, health, and exhilitzted spirits.—
Among the many 3.musrs of entolaintuent the
Hotel stands et:1;204)1(11.0ns, not only for the beauty of iz-s
situation, oquimanding as it does a noble view of the
sea, but for its elegant, extensive, and economical arrange-
ments. Parties visiting this delightful spot will, we teel
assured, thank vs for directing their footstep% to the Pier
hotel.

WEDGWOOD'S manu.l'actory of splendid China,
su long and deservedly ranking high amongst their re-
spected competitors, it announced in our columns this
evening. Mr, GeoRGE ROBINS (comme a l'ordittaire)
has the direllon of this extensive Sale. It appears he has,
recently sold the splendid Freehold Mansion in St. James:
square, (so long the ropositoty, of all that ingenuit:./ and
good taste could devise) ti the Earl of Rostsrs: ; and the
consequence has been, that all their immense stock must
now run the hasord of the haunter in the c.usuing week.
In spite of ,leis dull season, we shall be surprised if the
temptatiom to get bargains does not congregate a vast as
`enlhkge at the Auction, the more especially as we have
good reason to know the whole Stock is to be said unre-
servedly. The sale will Colltßatie for eight or ten days,
consmtncing on Monday neat.

A guard-house is fitting up in ScotlantLyard
for the central station of the New Police,

So daring have the poachers got in this neigh-
bourhood, that they quite eO, the gamekeepers at defiance.
A number of them, to gip- amount of 20, assembled a few
days ago on the Moor, occupied or held by the Duke of
LARDS. 114 Oract engaged several men to disperse them ;
but OA poachers presented their artna,, and threatened to
fire upon them. The Duke's party, consequently, returned
to their post, leaving the polOter* to ramble at pleas,:re.—
York Courant.

Professional, raen speak in high terms of the
manner in v.zlilph the new Chief Ju:alee of the Common
Pleas, Sie. N. "CyNnaL, has perCartued the arduous &idea
4 '•ua first Circuit.

At the Surrey psetiourned Sessions, on MandaV;
the I:usinels was very light, owing to the Asakes havin-g
4en so meuriy held. There were but twq or three trifling
eases of felony, and about as many as,sault charges, all of
which were disposed of by two oVec/A its the afternoon,

The shoals of logmfisa every night ir. Fleet-
street are become pp i;rito,ierahle annoyance. The words
" move on" Vvlve. tut effect, and instead ot the watchmen
!leing tke. ‘-o agate the nui,ance, mani rif them appear to
113 Wit:lva-petticoat government theAmoives.

On Friday afternoon, at North Shields, two
girls, each about 6 yearn of age, being in tt room by them-
selves,. unfortunately isound a bottle filled with gunpowder,
with which it appears they for some time amused them-
selves by fe,rnwing small quantities into the fire, till at
length, ix spark WAS communicated to the bottle, and a
dread Adi explosion ensued. Should the two young crea-
tures survive, they will be rende,,Te4 objects for life. The
girl that is least injured has 154ilrt eye,, one of ii r thumbs
is nearly blown off, anA face is in a bad state : the
other, a fine louki% gil;1, named SOUTHERN, is still in a
worse conditio.A; 41, face and neck, in fact, almost every.
part of 4.4- Ludy, are dreadfully but nt, awl it is feared one
of he; arms will have to he atnputatTl. The glass the
window was shattered to pieces„ a large 'kail ;wt on the.
fire was broken, and othtra;.ticles were daraged.—Tyra
Mercury.

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spmrlV,OP THE -PUBLIC JOURNALS.

A correqp- Ondent;:rigning himself " a Reader
of the Times" has thought proper to arraign
this Journal for not being sufficiently in the front
of the opposition to Ministers ; and the instance
by which the gentleman would illustrate his ac-
cusation of our supporting the views of the pre-
sent (British) Government, is our alleged " at-
tempt to uphold the appointment of the " traitor
Bourmont to a high station in the French Mini-
stry." Now, in the first place, we made no such
attempt to " uphold" the traitor Bourmont. We
remember having called him a man of ability--
and so far a useful colleague to Prince Polignac.
Ilia if it he meant that we had any wish upon
the subject of Bourmont, or of Prince Polignac
himself, as to their accession to office, or their
tenure of it,—that we cared one straw about the
success of either of these foreign politicians.as
Ministers further than might be connected with
the chance of their measures of foreign policy
being favourable to the peace of Europe and to
the duration of cordiality between their country
and our own,—the civil person who insinuates
his animadversions upon us, is very sadly mis-
taken. So much for foreign politics. Respect-
ing matters nearer home, we have seen it right
and just pretty often to support the mea-
sures of the Duke of Wellington, or ra-
ther, we have considered his behaviour, in
relation to one great public question, so
manly, so wise, so useful to his country,
and conferring on him so fair a title to gratitude
and honour from every man to whom domestic
peace and happiness are dear, that we have
treated with forbearance some other proceedings
of his government which appeared to us of a
more doubtful complexion. If we are wrong in
this, the country errs. with us ; for it rallies
round the Duke, and clings to him. If we are
wrong in occasionally showing that we have not
forgotten the Duke of Wellington's civil ser-
vices, and that we on the whole are satisfied to
have him for Minister, because we despair of
finding a man more eligible in the present con-
dition of the realm, name to us that better, and
convince us of the possibility of obtaining him
for successor to the Duke of Wellington, and
we are in opposition to-morrow. But it is no
great proof of discernment in us that we can
judge how he is beset, and what slippery,
treacherous, vexatious, harrassing, meannesses
of the lowest order, though in the highest places,
are perpetually made use of to ensnare or to
provoke him. Let our correspondent look at
the alternative—let him but imagine the Duke
of Cumberland, or Lord Eldon, as effective head
of a British Administration, and then ask him-
self whether the Times does not its duty in
yielding the Duke of Wellington an unbought
support.—Times.
We cannot help calling the attention of the
public to the result of a trial at the Gloucester
Assizes (Davis v. Capper) reported in our
Journal of this day, wherein we find by the ver-
dict of a Special Jury, the value they set upon
the liberty of the subject in that county. The
plaintiff, a woman advanced in years, was taken
tip on a charge of felony. At the examination
which took place before the defendant at Chel-
tenham, no proof was offered of her guilt,—the
articles alleged to have been stolen were not
found in her possession, but her accuser pro-
duced a letter addressed to the plaintiff; which
she bad intercepted and opened by the advice of
a police-officer. The letter contained a number
of vague allusions to the robbery which it was
alleged had been committed on the plaintiff's
accuser. The plaintif was called on by the de-
fendant to state who was the writer of that letter,
which had never been received by her ; and being
unable to do so, is committed for sixteen days
to the House of Correction at Northleach, in
order that in the mean time information might
be obtained respecting the writer of a letter that
was never in the possession of the plaintiff. At
the House of Correction she is treated as a per-
son convicted of a misdemeanour, and at the
expiration of the sixteen days brought up again
before the Magistrates at Cheltenham. The de-
fendant, who committed her, was not then pre-
sent,—he was attending other business at Glou-
cester. No further evidence was offered in sup-
port of the charge of felony, but the Bench de-
clining to act in the absence of the committing
Magistrate, the plaintiff' was sent back to the
gaol of Northleach for three days—that was, till
the next Bench day. She was then brought up
again, and, no other evidence being offered, dis-
charged. For this violation of the principles of
justice, a Special Jury of the county of Glou-
cester has given a special verdict for the plaintiff;
with 101. damages ! ! !—/bid.
We learn, with great satisfaction, that the
Commissioners for the Amendment of the Law
of Real Property are employed, during the pre-
sent forensic recess, in vigorously prosecuting the
great and important objects of the task confided
to them. The several portions of the work are
distributed among the members of the Commis-
sion, according to an arrangement formed be-
tween themselves; each, so soon as his indivi-
dual labours are completed, submitting the result
to the united consideration and revision of all his
brethren. Amid all the midtilarious topics of
inquiry within the sphere of this Commission,
there is, perhaps, none of more importance than
that of establishing an universal registration of
all conveyances and changes on real property.
Could such a registration be enforced, it is asto-
nishing how extensive a field of litigation would
be at once destroyed. In the counties of York
and Middlesex, and in Ireland, the system had
long been established ; but it has not been en-
forced with the inflexibility which is needful to
make it fully beneficial. Meantime, one of
the members of the Real Property Commission,
Mr. Duckworth, has lately visited Ireland, and
been for some time engaged, with Sir An-
thony Hart, the Chancellor, in investigating the
operation of the Registry-office in that kings j
dom, and similar inquiries are being made, with '
reference to the Registries in the two Eliglish
counties where they exist. We suppose they
will likewise extend to Scotland. While, in this
meritorious manner the Law Commissioners are
devoting themselves to their duties, a very absurd
clamour has been raised, in certain quarters,
against the expenee attendant on the Commission.
It was very well said, that the sole end and aim
of all our great political Etablishments— of the
whole apparatus of Government, King, Lords,
and Commons, with the Army and Navy to
boot—is no other than to set one man with
wig upon a Bench, and twelve others in a box
by his side : yet if it be proposed to make ever
so small an addition to the minute portion of
time National Revenue which is applied directly
to purposes of real and public utility, either for
erecting a new Tribunal, or remunerating an ad-
ditional Magistrate, we hear of nothing but the
necessity of frugality, anti that from the very
persons who would, without a murmur, see the
patio,nal resources squandered on a war under-