The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-31 00:00:00

ECCLESIASTICAL.

Jan. 11. Decision in the Court of Queen's Bench,
Ireland, that all marriages celebrated by Presbyterian
Ministers, where both parties are not Presbyterians, are
declared invalid.

The two daughters of T.-4rennison, Esq., of Innis-
tiogue converted to Catholicity.
20. Petition of the Brighton people to the Archbishop
of Canterbury to discountenance Puseyism.
22. Dr. Gilbert appointed Bishop of Chichester.
27. The case of Dillon v. Dillon again argued before
the Consistory Court.
Meeting on the Presbyterian Marriage Bill,
held at Armagh.
Address of the inhabitants of Bristol to the Pri-
mate, against Puseyism.

28. djonsecration- of the New Synagogue in Burton-
street, Burton-crescent.

Feb. 12.
town.

Okehampton Church, Devonshire, burnt

May 3. Rev. Dr. Daly declared by the Consistory
Court to be the elected Dean of St. Patrick's ; Dr.
Wilson determines to appeal.
May 16. Subscriptions of a sum of 40,000/. for a new
Roman Catholic cathedral at York.
Oct. 10. The Bishop of London's charge delivered.
Archdeacon Stopford appointed to the Bishopric of
Meath.
I)ec. 14.—Church-rate refused at Brighton by a ma-
jority of 210.

SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL.
Jan 14. Investigation ordered by the Home-office into
the abstraction of 250 bodies from the St. Marylebone,
workhouse, for anatomical purposes, and their burial in
the unconsecrated ground of Globe-fields. Sir James
Graham memorialised upon the subject.
March 20. Dr. Puente continu©s three hours at the
Polytechnic Institution in a diving-bell, without air, ac-
companied by his new invention.
June 3. Voltaic-electrical experiments in the Serpen-
tine River.
Nov. 29. F. Robertson, Esq., elected Dean of the Fa-
culty of Advocates at Edinburgh.

The only distinctions which should be recognized
are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorrupt-
ible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of
fidelity in seeking for truth. A man, in proportion
as he has these claims, should be honoured and wel-
comed everywhere.—Channing.
The house in the Rue de la Ilarpe, in which Char-
lotte Corday stabbed Marat, in a bath, has just been
pulled down.

CHELMSFORD UNION.
We have much pleasure in noticing that the dis-
position which lately prevailed on the part of the cul-
tivators of the soil, to reduce the number of labourers
in their employ, is fast subsiding, and that
many of those who, for want of work, necessarily
entered the Union houses, have been relieved from
a state of comparative idleness. The numbers
out of employ will, no doubt, be very fluctuating
during the ensuing winter, and in the agricul-
tural districts in particular ; indeed, such we
know has already been the case here, at Braintree,
and at Great Dunmow, but the decrease has lately
been considerable. Thirty and upwards, chiefly able-
bodied, left Braintree Union-house within the last
fortnight; the present number being 287. The aged
and the children there, on the 26th inst., received
their treat of beef and plum-pudding. Since this day
week the number in Chelmsford Union workhouse
has been reduced to 297, all of whom on Christmas-
day received a plentiful supply of plum pudding.
The following is a statement of the present number
of the different classes in this house, compared with
the number in the corresponding week in 1841 :-
1841 1842
Able-bodied men
Disabled by sickness or accident 30 . . . . 44
Old and infirm
Youths (7 to 15)
Boys (2 to 7)
Women (able-bodied)
Temporarily disabled ..... 28 .... 5
Old and infirm
Girls (7 to 15) . . 29 .... 41
(2 to 7) 2l .... 21
Infants
Born

277 297
The disabled by sickness or accident have been
greatly increased by railroad labourers; but of these,
few now are obliged to keep their beds, one of the
worst cases having received a perfect cure.—
Chelmsford Chronicle.

THE BRAZILIAN TREATY AND
THE SUGAR DUTIES.
A paragraph recently appeared in the newspapers,
apparently from authority, to the effect that the ter-
mination of the treaty was finally postponed until the
end of the year 1844—that is to say, the construction
contented for by the British Government has pre-
vailed Over the Brazilian interpretation, which fixed
the termination two years sooner. We understand
that this is the fact. The treaty will be continued
until the end of 1844 ; but upon what terms or agree-
ment as to the future, or through what menaces, are
the important points to know.
Without, pretending to pierce entirely through
the diplomatic veil which shrouds the mission of
Mr. Ellis, we may, notwithstanding, hazard the fol-
lowing guesses, which will, perhaps be found to be
approximations to the facts :—Our Envoy, on his
arrival, is reported to have found the Brazilian
Government averse to any negotiations on the basis
proposed by him, whatever that basis was. They
adhered firmly to their construction of the treaty,
arid were prepared to declare its immediate terini•
nation, although there can be little doubt that in
this view they are entirely wrong, and that the con-
struction applied to it by Lord Palmerston and ad-
hered to by Sir Robert Peel's Government, is the
correct one. They further evinced extreme re-
luctance to negotiate on the footing of a duty of 30s.
per cwt. on their sugar and of 16s. on British Plan-
tation. A differential duty of that amount did not
appear to meet their expectations in any degree,
and Mr. Ellis was at last obliged to declare the
ultimatum of his Cabinet, which was, that if they did
not consent to continue the present treaty until the year
1844, England would consider it a casus belli, and go
to war with them ! By this threat, it is surmised, and
this alone, was the extension of the treaty extorted ;
and from this fact we may see what feelings and what
policy will guide the Brazilians in any new treaty
which they may conclude with us after the expiration
of the present one.—Liverpool Mercury.

MRS. TROLLOPE'N NEW WORK, IN MONTHLY
SHILLING PARTS.—We are requested to state that the
First Part, price one shilling, of " Jessie Phillips, a
Tale of the New Poor-law," by Mrs. Trollope,
authoress of "Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy,"
&c., embellished with a fine portrait of the authoress,
and an illustration by Leech (to be completed in
Twelve Monthly Shilling Parts), is published this day
by Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street, and
may now be had of all booksellers and newsvenders
throughout the kingdom. Agents for Scotland—
Messrs. Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh ; for Ireland,
Mr. John Cumming, Dublin
Mr. Dawson had some property in Dublin on
which a fish market had from time Immemorial been
held. He caused it to be all fitted up with convenient
and showy stalls. But the nercids of Dublin being
Catholics, none of them would support the specula..
tions of one they considered, an Orangeman, and not
one of the fine stalls were let. In one week, how-
ever after the speech at Derry, (which was declara-
tory of his sentiments in favour of emancipation, and
was generally considered as a precursor of the
same views being held by the Duke of Wellington
and the rest of the Administration, which after-
wards proved to be the case,) not one stall remainsd
unlet. Upon this being told to Lord Norbury, he
answered—" Aye, I thought that speech was all
from se/-fish motives."—lrish. paper.
BRUTAL - ATTACK AND HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—
About half-past six o'clock on Tuesday evening last,
as Thomas Smith, carter to Mr. Wright, of the
Mill-bridge,' was returning from Mr. Win. Ogden's,
near the Carr House, with a horse and cart, he was
stopped near the back gates of the residence to Miss
Chivers, near the race-groUnd, by three men, dressed
as navigators, who knocked him down, kicked him
severely when on the ground, and broke three
of his ribs. They then robbed him of three sove-
reigns, nine shillings, and a memorandum-book ;
after •which, he being then in a senseless state,
they threw him into the adjoining pond. Soon
afterwards, a person named Lillyman, came up, and
assisted him out of the pond. Chappel, the principal
carter connected with the same mill, came up about
the same time with his cart from. Branton and the
neighbouring villages; and conveyed Smith to his
home. Surgical assistance was immediately obtained;
the man, however, got worse, did not know his own
wife, and raved all night. Three men were appre-
hended on suspicion the next day, and lodged in the
gaol. On examination, one was liberated, and the
other two were remanded for further examination.
Yesterday morning Smith was still in a dangerous
state.—Doncaster Gazette.
FATAL CAB ACCIDENT.—MY Higgs held an in-
quest last night, ae,Charing-cross Hospital,on the body
of Edward Martin, an elderly gentleman, a watch-
maker, of Paradise-street, Lambeth. It appeared that,
on Saturday last, while the deceased was passing
along the Strand, and while crossing at the top of
Hungerford-street, a cab, which was coming at a
furious rate from Duncannon-street, driven by George
Hannan, turned short round, to go down to Hunger-
ford-market, knocked him down, one of the shafts
having struck him on the forehead, and one of the
wheels going over his leg. There were two persons
upon the box, and no person inside. No attempt was
made to pull up before the accident happened, and the
vehicle was not stopped till a very considerable crowd
had followed and surrounded it. The wounded gen-
tleman was removed immediately to Charing-cross
hospital, where it was discovered that the left ancle
was severely wounded, with a-slight contusion of the
forehead. very attention was paid, but mortification
taking place in the wounded limb, he died on Wed:
nesday last. The Jury, after some deliberation, re-
turned a verdict of " Manslaughter" against George
Hannan. The Coroner then made out his commit-
ment to Newgate for trial.
MURDEROUS ATTACK.—The neighbourhood of Sher-
borne-street was a state of considerable excitement
on Monday evening, in consequence of a most ferocious
assault committed by an Irishman, named M'Sweeny,
who lodged at the house of a Mr. Collins, in Colum-
bia-street, on the person of John Skey, a stonemason,
residing in Shcrborne-street. The attack was made
with a sharp knife, used by M'Sweeny, in his trade
of a shoemaker. It appears that Collins and
M'Sweeny were sitting together, when some words
arose between them. APSweeny's conduct became
so outrageous and violent that Collins seized an op-
portunity of leaving the house with the intention of
claiming . the protection of the police. He had not
proceeded far when he Met with the unfortunate man
Skey, whom he induced to return with him to his
house. On their arrival they found M‘Svveeny in an
excessive state of irritation, and on their approaching
to secure him, he flourished a shoemakers' knife in his
nand and threatened their destruction if they ad-

vanced. Skey struck him and he fell heavil;,,
a wound on the back of his head which bled pro-
fusely ; he shortly, however, recovered himself and
closed with Skey, whilst Collins hastened away in
search of assistance. During the scuffle which en-
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sued we regret to say that Skev received three
wounds, one at the bottom of the stomach on the left

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side, which penetrated to the intestines; another on
the ribs, immediately above the heart, which it fortu-
nately did not injure ; and a third on the lower part
of the hip, which extended upwards of four inches.
After the infuriated man had indicted these dreadful

wounds, he escaped over a low wall at the back, and
sought concealment in an out-h.
it out-house, where he was
discovered and secured by the police. From the dan-
gerous nature of the woundswas deemed necessary
to take Skey's deposition, which was done before W.
Gyde, Esq., on Tuesday morning. M'Sweeny is
secured at the station-house, and we are informed, in
answer to our inquiries yesterday evening, that Skey,
although not out of danger, is going on as well as
from the nature of the injuries could be expected.—
Cheltenham Exariether.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
SE GONDA RIES' CO UR 7; Dcc. 30.

KING V BRODIE, OTHERIVISE WILDE, LESSEE OF THE

OLYMPIC THEATRE.

This Nvas an action to recover the sum of 41. 14s.
for necessaries supplied to the defendant.
The plaintiff appeared in person, and Mr. Hanbury
for the defendant.

The facts of the case will be gathered from the state-
ment of the plaintiff. Ile said it was a balance due
for board while the defendant was confined in the
Marshalsea prison in the year 1836. The defendant
was now the lessee of the Olympic. theatre • but in
1836 he went by the name of Brodie. The defendant
entered into an arrangement with the plaintiff, who
keeps the coffee-room in the Marslialsea,, to pay 2s. 6d.
per day for his board during the time he remained in
the prison. lie remained about ten weeks in prison,
and was ultimately discharged under the Insolvent
Debtors' Act, on the 20th Dec., 1836. On the day
he was discharged he (plaintiff) lent him 10s. 6d. to
pay his gate fees. When he left the prison, plaintiff
gave him his account, and he said he was very sorry
that he was then unable to pay it, but he
would do so in a week or a fortnight. On the
13th January fbllowing he wrote a letter to
the plaintiff; in which letter he apologised for not
being able to pay the amount that was due, at the
same time expressing his gratitude, and concluded by
hoping that " the tree of liberty would soon be
planted in the Marshalsea prison, and that every
prisoner would cut his stick."—(Roars of laughter.)
The plaintiff had then w4ited nearly six years for his
money, and he appeared as far off as ever. When
Mr. Wilde was applied to he said the theatre would
be doing well soon, and then he would pay. It was
in consequence allowed to stand over until the be-
ginning of the present year. In April last applica-
tion for the money was made by letter stating that
unless the money was paid a writ would be issued.
In consequence of this an arrangement was made to
pay at the rate of 10s. per week. The payments,
however, became in arrear, and therefore the present
action was brought.
Witnesses were called to prove these facts, and
several witnesses were -called to prove that the Mr.
George Brodie, who was an inmate of the Marshalsea
Prison in 1836, was the same person as Mr. George
Wilde, the now lessee of the Olympic Theatre. The
proof was that the witnesses had called upon the de-
fendant at the theatre, and he had acknowledged
the debt.

The LEARNED SECONDARY was about to sum up
the evidence, but the Jury said it was unnecessary,
as they had already made up their minds.
Verdict for the plaintiff for full amount claimed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. - -
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.
A young woman, named Catherine Taylor, was
charged with having robbed her own cousin, after
having been treated with kindness by him.
The prosecutor stated, that having been given to
understand that the prisoner had been leading a very
dissolute life for some time, he determined to endea-
vour to reform her, and went to seek her in a house
of the lowest description, to which he learned she re-
sorted. He there found her amongst a band of
thieves, and he called her aside asked whether there
would be any use in taking her away from such so-
ciety. She assured him that she loathed the company
her misfortunes obliged her to keep, and that if he
enabled her to abandon it, she would be most grate-
ful. Degraded as she was he took her home to
his wife, who stripped her of her rags, and clothed
her well from head to foot. She remained in the
family between 'five and six weeks, and then sud-
denly joined her former asociates, after having
robbed her benefactor ; and such had been the effect
of the habits in which she had indulged, that she soon-
appeared in the miserable plight in which he had
found her.
The prisoner said the prosecutor's wife had made
her a present of the property she was accused of
having stolen, and she retaliated upon him by assur-
ing the Lord, Mayor that he had ill-treated his Wife
in the _ most serious manner in which a wife could be

injured.
The LORD MAYOR said that all must admire the
kind feeling by which the prosecutor was actuated in
going amongst the dregs of society to restore the un-
fortunate girl to a decent station in life, fraught With
danger as was the experiment in her particular case.
The prosecutor declared that he was induced by the
revolting ingratitude of the prisonei alone to appear
against her.

HIS LORDSHIP remantlecl the wretched girl.
A man, named John Barker, was, brought
charged with having gone into the Three Cranes
public-house in Queenhithe, and deliberately taking
the clock, which he Was tying up in his handkerchief,
when he was seen by a female so employed.—He was
remanded.

Two females, who stated their names to be Elizg
Wyatt and Mary Ann Kemp, were charged with
having robbed Mr. Ethelred Barnett of a shirt pin.
. Mr. Barnett said that as he was passing through
St. Paul's Church-yard, one of the women, who- are
Ivell known and well dressed thieves, said to him,
" what a very pretty pin that is in your breast," and
immediately snatched it from his possession, and
• passed it to the other. Anxious to get back hii pro-
perty without making a noise about it, he offered
the women half a sovereign if they would restore it
to MM. They refused the terms, whereupon he in-
creased the offer to a sovereign, provided they would
accompany him home in a cab.

The 14011 D MAYOR—And is it possible that you
could trust yourself in a cab with two such desperate,
persons as these ?
The prosecutor said it was the fact. It was his
intention to have them driven to the station house,
where he meant to charge them with the robbery'
Indeed, he would have put them into custody in the
first instance but he could not find a policeman. When
they got as far as Bow church they suspected from
the directions he gave the driver that he meant to re-
cover his property , and they refused to go any further,
and he then found a policeman and charged them with
the robbery.
The women said they were much above the prae"
tices imputed to them, and that they knew nothing
of the prosecutor or his pin.
The LORD MAYOR again expressed his astonish-
ment that the prosecutor, who is a man of low sta-
ture, would venture into a vehicle with the prisoners,
who he declared might have been reasonablyexpected
to leave him without the value o
hip f a farthing.
The woman said his Lords knew nothing at 01
to their prejudice.
The LORD MAYOR—I have had you both at that
bar for robbing people in the street. Mary Anne
Kemp—Not a bit of it : we never were here before.
His Lordship immediately called to Gooch, the
turnkey of the Compter, and asked him whether he
knew the to o women, or either of them.
Gooch—l know them both, my Lord. They have
been both in Newgate, and in the House of Correction.
They are two most notorious thieves.
Mary Anne Kemp—That's a
Gooch (to Mary Anne Kemp)—You know you
have been convicted in the name of Jones.
The LORD MAYOR—I knew they were what they
have been described to be. The pin, I suppose, "
not found ? The prosecutor—No ; I expected to find
it in the cab, but they were too clever at the business.
The LORD MAYOR—They must go to Bridewell
each for a month.
The prisoners, upon leaving the bar, gave the Lord
Mayor a taste of their quality, by wishing they might
catch him fn a cab, and " wouldn't they sarve him
out."

CARMARTIIENSIIIRE ELECTION. .•—• CARMARTHEN,
TUESDAY NIGHT.—The election of a Member for the
county of Carmarthen, in the room of the late John
Jones Esq. of Ystrad, took place at the Shire Hall,
Llandilo, this morning. At eleven o'clock, W. Phil-
lipps, Esq., ugh Sheriff, took the chair, and after the
customary preliminaries had been gone through, lir •
0. Brigstocke, Esq., of Blaenpant, proposed, and E. P.
Lloyd, of Glansevin, seconded D. A S. Davies, Esq., of
Pentre, as a fit and proper person to represent the
county of Carmarthen in Parliament. :Mr. Davies
was then elected without opposition. He afterwards
addressed the electors at some length. Mr. Davies is,
we believe, a Liberal Conservative; and, entering
Parliament unfettered by public pledges (and private
onea too we understand), he will- take his seat 05 a
perfectly independent Member of the country party.
—The Welshman.
NEW DISCOVERIES.---Discoveries and systems which
oppose existing habits, prejudices, and interests, !Dust
undergo the test of almost universal opposition before
their value be admitted. Nothing but-sterling
merit,
tried and approved, can procure their general adop-
tion, or render their letters patent productive to the
inventor, ivhether in pence or praise. But a dis-
coverer or a system may he in advance of the age
most undoubtedly they may, and sometimes are ; but
such discoverers, if they have a little patience, will
soon see the age overtake them—Medical Gazette.
There are at present 300 candidates for Church
preferment on the Government books in Ireland.
Devizes Gazette.

11 IR TII S.
On the 26th of December, at Farnham, Surrey, the lady of
the Rev. H. R. Julius, of a daughter.
On the 29th of December, in Acacia-road, St. John's-vroetl
Mrs. Charles Freed), ofa son.

MARRIED.
On the 19th of December, at Hesse Homburg, Germany. E•
Prichard, of Ross, Herefordshire, banker, to Miss Sarah Mer-
rick, of Manchester.

DIED.
On the 23d of December, at S.naresbrook, Essex, Thom
Littledale, the infant sun of T. liejnolds, jun., Esq.

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