The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-15 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

LAW AND POLICE,
The trial of Delahunt, for the murder of the boy
Maguire, was fixed to be proceeded with yesterday, at
Dublin. Since the committal a vast deal of additional
evidence has been obtained.
At Union-hall, William Lewis, who described himself
as a lieutenant in the navy, was charged with stealing
a watch and 25 sovereigns, the property of John Lewis,
a young man employed in Deptford Dockyard. It ap-
peared he was recognised by the pawnbroker with whom
he pawned the watch, and described himself as Lord
Waldegrave. He was remanded till Wednesday next.
Yesterday at Guildhall, John King, a wholesale but-
cher lin Newga,e New, or College-market, and William
Turk, a retail butcher, who sells at his stall, attended
before Mr. Alderman Kelly, to answer the complaint of
John Soars, for fraudulently hanging a bolt and a piece
of lead in the chain of the scale used at the stall for
weighing meat, whereby ho was defrauded to the extent
of 6 oz. After the evidence of the complainant, a City
constable, and the beadle of the ward had been taken,
Mr. Alderman Kelly referred it to the City Solicitor, in
order that the defendants might be prosecuted at the ex-
pence of the City.
At Queen-square, Job Mathews, proprietor of the om-
nibus, No. 2,522, plying between London and Hounslow,
was fined 50s. for carrying more than the number of
passengers allowed by law. Tho defendant pleaded
guilty, and paid the fine.
A. notorious thief, of the name of Wright, was com-
mitted at Lambeth-street to the tread-mill for three
*months, for attempting to strip Sarah Haycock, a mar-
ried woman, of her clothes while in a state of intoxica-
tion. A policeman had watched his operations, and
pounced upon him as he was undoing th© last garmen
of the helpless woman.

COURT--FASECIONABLZ.
Her Majesty was to leave Claremont this day at eleven,
and hold a Privy Council at Winctsor, to make the final
arrangements for the Royal christening.
Viscount Duncannon arrived in town on Wednesday
by the South Western Railway, from Dorsetshire.
Lord and Lady Maryborough received a party to din-
ner last evening, in Saville-row.
Lord Lyttelton qualified as a Magistrate for Worces-
tershire on Tuesday.
Sir Thomas and Lady Lethbridge have arrived . at.
Paris from Somersetshire.

The Marquis of Anglesea has again been a severe sul
ferer from the tic-clouloureux.

The Countess SebasicaUl,-sister of the Countess
Tankerville, is in a state of immediate danger.
A large party of fashionables are now staying at Bel.
roir Castle.

MISCELLANEOUS.
At a meeting of the Directors and Guardians of the
Poor of the parish of St. Marylebone yesterday, it ap-
peared from the report read, that bodies from between
20 to 30 had been taken from that poor-house for ana-
tomical purposes, and no subsequent account rendered
of them ; while within a period of 17 months no less
that 254 bodies of paupers had been deposited in Globe-
fields in defiance of the law. The subject, considered as
one of the greatest importance, has been laid before the
Secretary of State, who has thought proper to appoint a
Commission to investigate it.
Prince. Albert lays the stone of the New Royal Ex-
change on Monday. shortly after half-past one o'clock,
attended by the Lord Mayor and the other City function-
aries, and at five o'clock dines with his Lordship and
the Lady Mayoress.
The snow in some parts of the country on Wednes-
day, is stated by the driver of the Nottingham coach to
have been seven feet in depth, and that he could with
ease have sat on the box and ade snow-balls.
Nottingham, on this day, was destroyed by fire, in
1140. It is also the anniversary of Gibbon's, the histo-
rian's death, in 1794. The retreat of Corunna, also con-
cluded on this day, in 1809, attended by the death of Sir
John Moore.
On Wednesday Mr. Bishop, the newly-elected Pro-
fessor of Music in the University of Edinburgh, was in-
ducted into office, in the presence of the Senatus Aca-
demicus.

During the thaw yesterday, at a moderate calcula-
tion, upwards of 100,000 persons were employed at once
as scavengers. If the New Police Act were as unobjec-
tionable in other respects as it is in reference to keeping
the foot-pavements clear of snow and ico, we should not
beak 10 rainy complaints against its arbitrary enactments.

POREIGN.
While the French Chamber of Peers were discussing
the Address in answer to the Speech from the Throne,
on Wednesday, Baron de Daunant demanded that the
responsible Editor of the Siecle should be brought to
the bar for a breach of privilege, contained in an article
reflecting on their Lordships' character . as a legislative
and judicial body. After a brief debate, the motion
was adjourned over till Thursday. Upon this topic,
the following are the opinions of the Liberal press:—
The Constitutionnel says :—" The incident which ter-
minated the sitting of the. Chamber of Peers yesterday,
is in every sense to be regretted. We can understand
that the Chamber of Peers should be a very severe
guadian of its dignity ; but is it supposed that in this
point of view there will be any advantage on calling to
the bar a journal like the Siecle, which is notoriously at-
tached to our institutions, and openly professes its de-
sire to uphold them ? The obServations made to M. de
Boissy by the President himself are precisely those which
the Siecle has put forward, with too much bitterness, it
is true, but without changing the sense or the character
of them."

The Courrier Francais observes:—" The article of the
Siecle, which M. de Daunant read to the Chamber of
Peers, does not appear to us to be in the slightest de-
gree susceptible of the interpretation which has been
given to it. The Siecle does not say that the Chamber
has ceased to be one of the powers of the State ; it sim-
ply attacks, and with reason, the Ministry which, by
multiplying beyond measure the trials before the Court
of Peers, makes the judicial functions of the Members of
the Chamber more prominent than their legislative func-
tions. We trust that as the Chamber has taken time to
reflect on the proposition of M. de Daunant, it will decide
on rejecting it.
The National says :—After having read the article of the
Siecle, no person can imagine that the susceptibility of
M. de Daunant is well founded. All that the Siecle says
has been frequently said by 'Journals of a very opposite
colour, and even in official speeches, without the Chamber
of Peers having taken offence at it. One of the Peers
proposed to send the Siecle before a Jury. We do not
think that a Jury can be found to condemn it. Will the
Chamber of Peers, judging in its own cause, come to a
different decision from that which would be given by
a Jury?

PUBLI OPI.
The Times contains anC,
articleNZo tithe subject of the
, New Poor-law, wherein it takes the opportunity of re-
marking that the resident parochial clergy in general
are opposed to that measure; and that they have become
more and more opposed to it in proportion as they have
acquired a longer and closer experience of its operation.
The Post replies to an Anti-Puseyite article that ap-
peared in the Chronicle of yesterday, charging the Pu-
seyites with dishonesty in abusing Protestantism and ac-
cepting its emoluments. " We defy our Contemporary
(says the Post), to bring forward any credible evidence
that any one who is enjoying the emoluments of the Pro-
testant Church is a hater or anathematiser of that Pro-
testantism which our Church acknowledges in its articles."
Referring to the frequent and glaring inconsistencies
manifested by the Tories in their speeches in Parliament
and elsewhere, the Chronicle observes :—" Tory argu-
ments shift as rapidly as the scenes in a pantomime.
Dispel one, and 10, another of a directly opposite descrip-
tion starts up in its place ! A brief while ago, and ma.
nufactures were such good things that they were to be
more than tolerated ; they were entitled to that species
of taxation in their favour, which is called protection.
And now we are gravely told that the manufacturing
system is undesirable for a ration, inasmuch as it de-
stroys the domestic comfort of the masses."
The Advertiser congratulates its readers on the ad-
hesion of Scotland to the Anti-Corn-law cause, and adds
that now the Scotch aro fairly embarked in the cause,
they will pursue it with a determination not to be daunted
by any obstacles, however great.
The Herald expresses itself with much confidence on
the subject of the approaching Dublin election, and is of
opinion that the Tory candidate, Mr. Gregory, is pretty
sure to be returned for that city.
The Leeds Mercury thus speaks of Lord Morpeth's
chances a$ the Dublin election :—" The Liberal party in
Dublin are coming forward nobly ; their means, how-
ever, are circumscribed. The appeal made in our last
paper to the liberality of the Reformers of Yorkshire,
has met with a ready response, and from the conversation
we have had with the subscribers to the Address and
Testimonial to Lord Morpeth, we have not the least
hesitation in declaring, that if it should be found neces-
sary, they would, by almost-an unanimous decision, de-
clare that one-half at least of the Memorial Fund should
' be applied to reinstating Lord Morpeth in an assembly of
which, by his patriotism, his integrity, and his states-
manlike qualities, he was one of the most distinguished
ornaments."
The Dublin Evening Post says :—" In a contested
election, and particularly in an election for the' City of
Dublin, is there a man so mad, even in our dear
county of Galway—is there a sportsman so rash as to
risk his all upon the chance ? Now, we put these
questions to Mr. Gregory, Senior—not as a friend, we
admit—but as a political opponent. He will be told
not to mind us. He need not. We don't Want him.
But only let him mind the questions, and answer them
to his own satisfaction."
We take the following from the West Briton :
" There never was a question that has made so rapid a
progress in the public mind as that of an alteration in
the present system of Corn-laws. Twelve 'months ago
it was almost impossible to argue it with the agricul-
tural body—they refused to enter upon the subject at
all—they would have no examination, no inquiry into its
merits, no meddling whatever with the question. And
now we find the agriculturists themselves coming for-
ward with proposals for an alteration."
The Durham Chronicle draws the following inferences
from Sir James Graham's recent speech at Dorchester:—
" No effort is to be made to relieve the poor from contri-
butions which grind them to the earth—no impost is to
be removed which is levied on the fruits of humble in-
dustry. The attention of the Administration is fore-
stalled in quite another direction. The cormorants who
batten on the nation's vitals are to be deprived of none
of their basely-acquired spoils. They are to go on thriv-
ing on the plunder of the State, while all others are has-
tening to destruction."
33LECTIONXIERING.
A requisition is now in course of signature to Sir
Charles Lemon, to permit himself to be put in nomina-
tion for West Cornwall. Mr. Basset is spoken of as his
adversary.