The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-12 00:00:00

(FROM THE ATLAS.)

The recall of the Marquis of Anglesea has divided
public attention with" the flight Of Mr. Stephenson
for the last few; days. -A measure more happily cal-
culated to awaken the contentious eleinents of the
Irish character could not well be devised. .One
party was just beginning to distrust the Duke of
Wellington, and the other to confide in the Lord
Lieutenant, when the Puke's. letter to Dr. Curtis
threw. both parties into raptures. Being susceptible
of two opposite interpretations, it was construed, not
according to its • intrinsic "tnettning, or the Duke's
past political principles, but agreeably to the prejn-`
dices of each commentator. The Catholic Associa-
tion pronounced the Duke an emancipator, and the
Brunswick Clubs declared lie was the best of Minis-
ters. In Ireland there is no moderate party—no
sensible party—no cool, reasoning party ; therefore
there was no body of men able to fathom the depths
of the mysterious communication. All doubts .and
dreams, however, were. dissipated in a few days by
the abrupt recall of the Lord Lieutenant,' which
seemed to justify the opinions entertained by the
Brunswick Clubs of the Premier's intentions towards
the Catholics. Except the recall of Lord Fitzwilliam,
which the secret history of the period attributes to
the influence of a family whose power it now rapidly
decheing, pie do`not recollect a similar instance of
Ministerial promptitude. Several Journals have at-
tempted to explain the cause of a measure for which
there appears to exist no apparent justification on the
surface of affairs; but we believe it will be found to
have originated in the circumstances alluded to in
our last, but which cannot be more fully explained
until the meeting of Parliament. A Dublin Paper,
supposed to be in the interest of Government, states
that the cause of his Excellency's recall was,

Since the Ministerial visitation on the Marquis of
Anglesea, for presuming to differ with his Military Chief;
on a point which all must admit the Viceroy to be from
experience the best judge—it has been matter for addi-
tional wonder at the escape of Mr. Dawson, for his cele-
brated speech at Derry. The Peet interest, we hOtiever
suppose, was found.greater than that of the Paget. •

that be did not prosecute Mr. O'Gorman Mahon
for the alleged assertions made use of by that gen-
tleman, for which he was deprived of the Commis-
sion of the Peace, This cannot be true. First, be-
cause, as the chief executive officer; the duties of the
Lord Lieutenant are of a confirmatory rather than.
of an originating character ; . and second, because it
is the special province of the Lord Chancellor to
suspend the unpaid Magistracy, and of the Attorney-
General to institute Crown prosecutions. To recall
the Lord Lieutenant, therefore, for not doing that
which should have been done.by the laW authorities,
would resemble the sense of justice entertained by
the old man in the farce, who beat Tom for the
transgressions of Dick. Rumour, of course, has
named a number of successors to the vacant Vice-
Royalty. The Dukes of Northumberland and Buck-
ingliant, and Lords Melville, Verulam, Sidmonth,
and Powis, have been severally appointed and sir-
perseded by the voice of public report; but we can
assure our readers, we believe upon good authority,
that no appointment has been as yet determined on;
and that the Cabinet have not entered upon any
final determination with respect to the future Go-
vernment of Ireland. For some days past serious
deliberations have taken place in high quarters upon
the expediency .of dissolving the existing form of Ad-
ministration in Ireland, and assimilating it to the
military establishment of Scotland; but we hate
good reason to think. that the project, at least for
the present, has' been abandoned. Sir Anthony
Hart, the' Lord Primate " Beresford, and Sir John
Byng, have been it is said, named as the Lord Jos-
' tices during the iris!' Interregnum.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.

On Saturday, a woman of very plain and unin-
viting appearance was placed at the bar before Mr.
iIALIS, charged with having intermarried with W.
:Eagles, her former husband, 1-lenry Goodman, being
still living.

The prisoner, when asked for tier name, gave
that of Ilaniiak Andrews.

Mr. ITALIA observed, that he supposed she h►►d a
third I,,,band, as the name she had given was not
that oi..either of the persons present.
The prisoner replied that she had no desire to
claim either of them.

The second husband, William Eagles, having.
been sworn, deposed that he Wll9 a publican, and,
kept the Coachmaker's Arms, Rose-street, Long-
acre. On the 15th of September last, he was mar-.
ried to the prisoner in the parish Church of St.
Martin-in-the-fields, who on that occasion gave her
name Hannah Andrews, widow.
Mr. HALLS—Was it after' a long courtship you
were marri. d to the prisoner ?
The witness replied, that he had known her but
for a very short time before she induced him to go
to church with her.

Mr. HALLS—WeII, and what was the inducement
she held out to yon,—not personal beauty I should
think ?-

" You may say that, your Worship," said the-
witness, laughing .heartily, in which the prisoner
herself joined; " it was not her beauty to be sure,
and I should not have thought of such a thing but
for the representations which she made to me of
hex being possessed of so much property. She
told me that her deceased husband had left her all
his fortune, which consisted of several freehold
houses in Wolverhampton, besides 400/. in the
Bank of Sir Wm. Curtis and Co., and 1,4001. in a
Bank at Cheltenham.

Mr. H ALLS —B u t did you not endeavour to ascer-
tain the truth of her statement before the knot was
tied ? " No, your worship," replied the witness,
" I left it all to her own honour, 'as it were. The
truth is, I was in want of a helpmate, and thought
that an opportunity like this might not again occur :
so I married her without delay, and found myself
regularly hoaxed."
• The prisoner here joined in the general laugh, and
danced about the bar in an ecstacy of delight, to the
no small amusement of the by-standers, including her
two husbands, the first of whom kept winking and
ogling at the prisoner, who 'nodded her head, and
laughed and winked in return.
The witness, es soon as order was restored, was
desired to continue • his statement. He said that
they bud been married only a few weeks when the
prisoner decamped one taking with her every
thin', of value he possessed, even to his children's
clotries'and linen.

" Oh !" said Mr. HALLS, " then you too had
been married before. Your first match I suppose
was for love, as the last was for money."
The witness scratched his head, and confessed that
such was the case.

Mr. HALLS observed, that the witness had acted
Like a ninny; but the fact was, he had set a trap,
and was caught in it himself. It was nothing irpre
than bite the biter.

Mary Goodman then deposed, that the first hus-
band, Henry Goodman, Was her son, sad that they
lived in the city of Worcester. She was present at
her son's marriage with the prisoner, which took
place on the 4th of June last in Birmingham, at the
church of Old St. Martin.

" What ! St. Martin again ?" said Mr. HALLS;
" the prisoner had a strange predilection for the
name. But how Is finis' hsis possible that she
married Eagles only three monthS•after her marriage
with your son ?" MrS. Goodman said it was quite
true that she had done so.
Mr. HALLS asked GOOdman what inducement he
had had to cause him to many the prisoner.
. " Why, Sir," he replied, " I have pretty much
the same story to tell as Mr. Eagles. She told me
all that she told him about her property at Wolver-
hampton and in the banks."
Mr. HALLS—And you took just as little pains as
the other, I suppose, to ascertain the truth of her.
statement ?—" No, 'your Worship, I was a little
.sharper than this - gentleman," replied Goodman,
" for I went to the expense of taking- the lady from,
Worcester to Cheltenhana to ascertain_ at the bank
.there if her story were true. I saw one of the.
clerka, who gave me such an answer as induced me
to believe that it was all right,, since learned;
however, thatihis clerland the prisoner were old
acquaintanees; and understood' each other, so that
lbetWeen them both I was fairly: diddled.--,(Loud
laughter, in which the prisoner once more immo-
„derately joined, thumping. the bar at which she stood
in an almost frantic manner.)
At this period Ofthe examinatiort a tall respectable-
looking elderly man, with a peculiar gravity of min-
tenance, (Lewd in a green surtout coat with a huge
fur collar, advanced to the. bench and said, "--I-have
also a charge to prefer against the prisoner.
" What I" exclaimed 'the Magistrate, "another
husband i"—" No, Sir," replied the stranger, " not
quite No bad as that, thank God but I' mean to
charge the prisoner with having,obtained money
under false pretences. He. then went on to state
that his name . was Wilson, and that. be lived in
Kirby-street, Hatton-garden. The prisoner lodged
in his-house, and in consequence of the representa-
, tione she had made to him, and her being on the
point of marriage. with Mr. Eagles, he was induced
to advance her .341. to purchase some wedding.
dresses.- His wife also had lent her a watch, which
she had failed to return., • •

Mr. fIALLs—No doubt you were at the wedding,
and partook of the good things, " Oh, certainly,"
said Mr. Wilson, " the wedding was kept at my
house; and as a matter Of course, both Mrs. Wilson
and myself, and indeed all my family, were invited."
" Then," said Mr. HALLS, " you must set off your
amusement upon that occasion against your present
claim; and I hope this lesson will teach you how you
speculate in such matters."
Mr. Wilson, with a deep sigh, observed, that, al-
though a Yorkshireman, he was fairly bitten.L-
(Laughter.)
Eagies here observed, that the prisoner was a ter-
rible woman, and had ruined him and his family.
She is, indeed," ejaculated Mrs. Goodman:
" she has deceived my poor son there, and is capable
of taking in 4.0 men."—(Renewed laughter.)
Mr. HALLs said, he thought all parties had been

rightly served. Persons ►who trafficked in wives in
that manner deserved to. be deceived. The serious
and Solemn obligation of marriage ought not to.be
trifled with lightly. A branch of this disgraceful
system, was the practice of publicly advertising for
husbands and wives, and he wondered that any re-
spectable journal ►would lend its celtirmns to such
mischievous trash.

The prisoner facetiously attempted to deny that
she was the wife of either of the parties who ap-
peared' against her. •
Thelnagistrate, however, thought differently, and.
fully,committed her •for trial. She left the, office
laughing and winking at her first husband. •
• A Captain Brereton was summoned by the driver
of the oath 798 for a shilling back fare. •:
- It appeared that.the Captain took the coach from
Southampton-row, Bloomsbury; to his residence,
No. I, Polygon, Somers.town; at nine o'clock on
Thursday night: The coachman • demanded one
shilling for the fare, and another shilling for back
carriage, it being after seven o'clock-in winter, and
Somers-town being off the stones.
Mr. HALLS said, that the demand was legal, and
the gentleman had no other choice than to pay the
money.

Capt. Brereton, however, resisted the demand,
and asked if he might not appeal against the deeiSion.
Mr. HALLS said the act was imperative, and there
was no appeal. He wished the gentleman would
take time to consider.

Captain Brereton declared, that. he wanted no
time to make up his mind upon the subject.
" Then," said Mr. ILtLLs; " I have only to say,
that I must commit you to prison for one month,
unless you pay the shilling."
" Commit me at once then," said the Captain,
" for I am determined to resist."

He was accordingly conveyed to the lock-np
room, where he sent for. Mr. Harmer, and after a
consultation with one of that gentleman's clerks, he
declared his intention.to resist to the utmost, and
was accordingly committed to prison.