The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-26 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

At the Lewes Assizes, on Wednesday, John Pockney,
Charles Briggs, and Stephen Steadman, all young men,
were tried for what has been called the " Ringmer
mur-
der." The Grand Jury ignored the indictment for
murder, and the prisoners were therefore tried for steal-
ing some articles of little value from a woman whom
they had abused, and who was afterwards found drowned
in a pond near the spot to which they had enticed her.
The occurrence took place four years ago-. Pockney
and Steadman were found guilty; the first was sentenced
to two years, aid the other to eighteen months' hard
labour.

Sophia King, the milliner's apprentice, convicted at
Cambridge on Monflay, of stealing a Post-office packet,
containing property of the value of 7801., was sentenced
on Wednesday to be imprisoned for eighteen months.
At the Surrey Sessions, on Thursday, Mary Lee, aged
21, a girl of the town, was convicted of stealing from
the person of Daniel Good, on the 17th inst., 728 i. 175.,
and sentenced to be imprisoned for twelve months.
Mary Bromley, a girl of the same stamp, was convicted
of stealing a watch-chain and seals from a man of the
name' of I3urley, near St. Thomas's Hospital, and sen-
tenced to be banished for seven years.
On Tuesday the five men charged with the late bank
robbery at Manchester, two of whom were arrested in
rondon some time ago, were, after a lengthened exami-
nation, committed for trial at the assizes,
At Guildhall on Thursday, Richard Bates, formerly a
draper at Wakefield, was committed to take his trial for
endeavouring to extort 101. from Mr. Carlin, a tobacco-
nist on Ludgate-hill, by threatening to make a charge of
an infamous nature against him.
From the return made to the House of Commons, the
amount of fees received by the Clerk of the Affidavits in
the Court of Chancery for the past year, has been
4,8361. 12s. 10d. ; and the number of affidavits for which
these fees were received 15,561.

PINI3 A-1 TS.
The state carriage of the Prince Charles of Bavaria,
intended for the occasion of his marriage with the
daughter of the King of Prussia, is to be seen at the
show-room of Messrs. Pearce in Long-acre, by whom it
has been built. Its appointments are highly costly; the
iron-work is plated with silver : the different ornaments
of solid silver, in some cases intermixed or
gold. Between 301. and 401. was paid for the painting
alone. smoked with

LITERARY AND SCIENTIrIC.
The alluvial accretions on the shores of Vendee and
,he ancient Poiton proceed to so great an extent that

the spot were an English 64 gun-ship was rvrec
re okodf in
the middle of the last century is now the .-cent 1
field of corn.
SPORTING.
ad
The Queen's hounds had a gallant run on 'Wednesday
r betwee.n 400

after the stag Hampton. There were ..
500 in the field, many of whom were a the Court
elite.
COUILT-r&SIE/0N.933105.
The 20th of the ensuing month has been fixed :by th
Lady Patronesses for the opening of Abnack's. n,,/
The Marquis and Marchioness of Sligo have hel',,,,:icif
tamed at Bilton hotel, Dublin, on their lelty from " ,:alt
port-house, Mayo.
The Earl of Mansfield leaves Scone PalaAv for la
ham House, on the 14th of next month. 3.1et4
The Earl and Countess Grosvenor -vill rem ain at
combe park, until the return of the family to lowa. h.O.
Lord Lovaine left town on Thursday for Der7Y-
Bucks. • lei
,
Lord Newport is rapidly recovering from his • •
severe fit of illness.
IVIXEICELLANZOTIO. • A dal
The day, emphatically called Good Friday, 15 llt
of solemn fast. Our -Saxon forefathers denominat%(
4i
Long Friday, from the length of the offices and fait: tf,i3
very anciently it was called Holy Friday Als24 10-
day, in 1688, London Charity Schools were "r"
stituted.
The reports read at the meeting of the friends often
Licensed Victuallers' School, on Thursday, at the Id° I in
Tavern, stated that from the foundation of the se looo._ect
1806, nearly 1,000 children had been educated and el Tar.
in it. Twenty had been admitted during the Pt year.
The subscribers had, however, decreased during tl4' '1
year by 700.
The RefOrmers of Marylebone, and- parish:l:Toil sy°t
St. Mary, Newington, both held meetings eel, x weir
night, when resoftttions against the income `n .- -. ''
unanimously passed. k ItI°:
The funeral of the Marquis of Hertford t°°, ;sr is
Friday in the vault of Arrow church, whie";,;-„ of the
immediate vicinity of Bagley Hall, the roltnst:; on l'e
family, situated' about two miles from Alees--I.' i.
Cheltenham road. ,
ra,d,avmille
quTiatgtlhioanti,citayccaotrEdiansgtert,o xe— ngi4e*
4.;rsbu P
letAtel to fto her 0 . :f
ments in London and Naples. ,i
RUMOURS.
There is a very current rumour in Dublin, °f
oil rth;
jected alliance between the Marquis of Waterfor'
amiable and lovely daughter of a Scottish Peer.

•
AMERICAN NEWS.
TA;
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM SHIP, At'il',l3
LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY MORNING, 6 0:-r,
The splendid steam-boat Acadia, wn'ej par
here on the 19th ult., with the mails 1.01 fthe
sengers, . for Halifax and Boston, in Place:fie°
Caledonia, arrived again this morningffill
svoyage of twelve and a half days, 114011,—,,a0 to
or thirty-three and a half days on the la
Halifax and back again. .boo
It had been arranged-that the lirnieOfil,e
carry the mailS to England, and is'lon hey
been prepared for sea, and state(' •
voyage, but before she had bee 1,, ivitil
hours at sea, she fortunately fell ilt<
the Acadia, and they returned to [la': ;liar
company. Although the arrival at 113/11.3c,1001
pened at mid-night, the sound of their -,telow
brought down to the Wharfs, and as tile{-,Wit
ers passed, the news of Caledonia saft
land; was received with the most COl'h, O.;
cheers. The Acadia took out more KO'
month's later news to both- Ca.nsdat,., sitir
Scotia, and the United States. She "o'hett;
on
plied with coals, &c. and left HalifaX
turir voyage, oil the 12th, with 12 passeilge:,ose'
thus experienced stormy weather all the 7froll:
We do not receive by her any later PaPeni str;
New York than these brought by tile
Her dates from Boston tiJe the 2nd, and lcdfjs6
Halifax papers to the 12th inclusive, they 44,
however, contain any news of importance44,l2;
chiefly filled with the English news br°,,,llet!,"(
the Acadia, the details of whici2
the opening of Parliament, the intry
O",li—K
Sir ißobert Peel's Corn-law Bill the.
Christening, &c.

INCONIE TAX.
BOROUGH OF MARYLEBONP'.IIOOO
Thursday evening a numerous annual gen.er,ll,..tiollret
of the Borough of Marylebone Reform Rego",-0.0'7,
14
sociation took place, at their rooms, in Warr,e ilerd
Fitzroy-square, for the purpose of receiving t'leciO4;it
of the Managing Committee for the paste
President, Vice-President, and other officers Or
ensuing, &c.
JOSEPH IVIMEY, Esq., in the absence of.Pbooll
'eP"eitlto
shave, Esq., the President, took the chair. I,„,tlfoto.co
peculiar satisfaction he had to state that the P ociotlo
of Marylebone had determined that that Asa , clor,
should be maintained in all its usefulness t°ll.ecej
which,. although generally speaking, had 13'„iptoci,tle•
cast by the cloud of corruption, still proud'," u'itvm Yto
its highs position in Marylebone. Of the neces-ipbgd,e
form Associations all over the kingdom there,c°, op ;(1,
doubt, more particularly when they saw, day bye arm',
increasing boldness of a Tory Government, w'10!,"I)
amongst other things, to attempt to renew thgt
quitous and inquisitorial measure, an income tax'"fre
It was time for the country to shake off their
it was plain the corrupt majority of the Prese°,ss,
thlt
of Commons were so emboldened by their suc,c-bisd'tbe
they were prepared to carry anything, heweive;ti it
Was laughable to hear the statements put 1.°;,, lof;Sei;
Marylebone Tory Association, as to the eaugb-ecss7ol
defeat at the late election. One cause was' thet";pg
was wet weather.—(Laughter.) Another, thattlsool:),
bad canvessers.—(Renewed laughter.) Nno:iti,',oo ter
this, they made a boast that since its establts: rebeo
Tory Registration Association had put en ,th
473 claims, and had sustained 3,023 okleetl(Tthat, ti
liberal voters ; and, strange to say, with B.l' 1,30' s
Reformers beat them by a majority of :led c/qi•
(Hear, hear.) With regard to their amours '' tigul)'l
A 0;
it was exceedingly laughable, for that (the lie at the,
sociation established nearly half that number II G
registration alone.—(Hear.) o'bi'
Mr. ALLEN, the Secretary,- read the Eerr'!„ty Ono
great length showed the operations of the Soei';,-3 of jg
the past year, and congratulated the Ref°rlll:
Borough on the determination to maintain it'll
out its useful operations. tlie„ to
Mr. BARTLETT, in moving the adoption -teyoros
port, observed that, of all the disgraceful.
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destroy liberty, the imposition of the inan;tPeg)
the worst. It was a tax upon industry, andr,ls,4
fore, tend to clog the wheel of exertion.---Luffi.
Its effect upon the small tradesman would "?C
that faith and credit which now alone prOelfpi ""rol
dreds of honest and industrious men from
poverty and destitution.—(Hear, hear.) f",,'";i°,,,,,"61
strenuous exertion to resist the imposition of
l 1Q
measure ; and not only ought. associations {O ell
in every district, but every county, city, anew „i ,to
the kingdom, without regard to politics, 40°l e-st•
upon their representative either to give his
liyq
the scheme of an income tax, or at once resi%]:.
This would be the best way to settle the questiohict`
Mr, B. H. SMART seconded the resolution/
.„1 ope
adopted unanimously with acclamation. .1,10 tO
'the CHAIRMAN observed that there couldlig
opinion throughout the country upon al' inc!7'feellAt
• tit fry"
proposed by Sir Robert Peel. As a proof of
iti Marylebone, he held in his hand several JeLtr,
cnfluentialmembers of that Association, the whow.w.e.
ondemned in strong terms that obnoxious rdecT:eplifor
Mr. HILL observed that the country was t ptitrd
debted to. the minority,, who had in so excel-I,IA io tof
defeated the indecent attempt of Sir Robert -1-Lrlcoliwlei
his financial se:ieme through the Noose gite cool
without the slightest opinion on the part of t fitt
,
being given.
Several other gentlemen addressed the fietter
resolutions, condemnatory of the conduct.'ATigo. 17'04"
ment in proposing an income tax, when yoloPoeff
modes psesented themselves, were unanimOtiiiio.oi'
On the motion of Mr. Smart, seconded )?Y';(l4P -fog
John Bagshaw, Esq., was unanimously re-el(,keect.4lo,ol
dent for the ensuing year • and the other otil choir"'
also been appointed, thanks' were voted to Ole

and the meeiing separated.
the
ST. MARY, NEWINGTON. of ;-he
Thursday, at six o'clock. a numerous taentg ia
parishioners of St. Mary, Newington, was in ell
Vestry-room of the :parish church, and w'iLit'l,tittsf
johurned to the Boys' School-room, Newingtonrete, r
th© purpose. of " taking into consideration-the viol
plqefizattelistetiiolotnyisi,softaxation involved in the financial FT :-,10 !if
thereonlinisterass, and tobeaddeocp.mt suche ex. rpeesdi°ep,,`lor,:vi;
W. Chamberlain, junior churchwarden, in the . .
ftbet
Mr.- GEYDE moved a resolution, to the e art*'oe
the vestry admitted the existence of financial eln,recco.he
andft; expenditure, and expressed great satisfaeqPri „,;,
prospect of any alteration in the cOmmerciaLlt% sciTs
would cheerfully submit to the iinpositiOn of 51;013,,t5t
tional taxes, to be equally and justly levied,"!htitet'',4-;
required to supply any temporary deficient the' joccwo
nevertheless the vestry was of opinion that the
• mist an tp
tax now Before Parliament was a most uni:aed 1/YAg,
pressive tax, and was not demanded or jast'oo.',t, Pro
exigencies of the country ; that in the delibe.,„4.o'--rte", iR
ment of this vestry an income tax' should be '`..l //10' r
only in the extremity of a formidable war, antd distiPie
such an event there should be a clear and bron foci v,t;
tion between the amount to be levied upon inch°, ft°
rived from property, and incomes which are
of enterprise, skill, and industry." tsis
Mr. J. GUYER, seconded the resolution. , tba
Mr. SHAWL: moved an amendment, imPlYin°
to
income tax would be beneficial if it was made t°
the rich and higher classes of the country. , c
Messrs. Brown, Wakefield, Sz-c., addressea owe°
when, on the resolution being put, with the aloe
the former was carried almost unanimously. 'etiti'pe
Mr. IRELAND then moved a resolution, that 4 1:1, told
founded on the previous resolution, be PrePlll6(.teft;)
presented to the House of Lords, praying them t°
their sanction to the proposed income tax, jan,sl,ll,cl
the Speaker of the House of Commons lad dec°l4.-1 taby
petitions could not be received in opposition ta':,ed
and, in the hope that their example may be tb"critiltife,
other constituencies, they request their represe; oil
of the county and borough to give their strennau-
salon to the proposed income4ax. --lc' a• ;0
The resolution, being seconded, Was also 401-„ectitr
The vestry broke 'LP, when the resolution -alai 1.
were ordered to be advertised in various pape..
Arty,

It is stilted that not less than 46-fishermen 01
near St. alery-sur-Somme lost their, live: in the star
V
11th inst.