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

THE SUN LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING' MARCH 26, 1842

the footman arrived, When-tbe prisoner fell tfroi# his knees,
said it was his first offence and begged forgiveness.
Evidence being adduced- that he was a member of the
" swell mob," he was full committed.

WORSHIP-STREET-(THIS DAY.)
CONVICTION OF A BEGGING-LETTER IMPOSTER.—
Thomas Hughes, a grey-headed elderly man, who was
said to have held the situation of butler in several
families of distinction, was finally examined upon a
charge of soliciting alms.
It appeared that the prisoner called at the house of
Mrs. Jones, a lady of fortune, residing at Upper Clapton,,
and solicited charity, and on her refusing to give him
anything, be followed her into the pat-four, and persisted in
his importunities until she gave him sixpence in order to
get rid of him.

Information of the circumstances was given to police
constaMe N 223, who stopped the prisoner as he was
leaving the house, anti took him into custody.
Iforsford and Itcany, thc Mendic:ty officers identified,
the prisoner as a member of a notorious gang of begging-
letter imposters, but they were not aware that he-had
ever been convicted.

The prisoner was committed to the House of Correc,
tion, to be kept to hard labour for a fortnight.

gLECTION • COMMITTEE.
(THIS DAY.)
WIGAN.
The Committee met at the usual hour. Mr. Hawes
in the Chair. The scrutiny was proceeded with on the
part of the sitting Members.
George Rich was struck off the poll.
The sitting Members being pow in, a majority, John
Dickenson was objected to by Counsel for the petitioners.
The vote was struck off. -
William Cooper was struck off.
Mr. Standish was thus. placed in a majority of one
over Mr. Crosse when we went to press.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, AfARCII 26.-Wind this clay W.,.variable.
DEAL, MARCH 25.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. from the
River,. Fingalton. for St. John's, New Brunswick ;
Surrey, and Jane Blain, for Hobart Town ; Baltasara,
Valpairaso; Cornwall, Singapore ;. Canton, St. John's,
New Brunswick. Sld. Douglas, Montreal. .
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 24.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd.
Ellzn Preble, Hindley, New Orleans ; Columbus, Cowan,
Mobile ; Acadia steamer, Halifax, with the mails ;
brought from Boston to Halifax, by the Unicorn,
steamer. Sld. Duke .of Clarence, Calcutta ; Cookson,
Rio Janeiro; Henry Shelton, Baltimore ' • Brenda, Port-
au-Prince ; Hero, Africa ; Thomas Leech, Monte
Video; St. Lawrence, and Rob Roy, New York. Several
ice bergs were passed iGth and 17th inst., in lat. 45., long.
44, by the Acadia steamer, arrived here.
111A.^.GATE, • MARCH' 24.—About two hundred deals
and about two hundred deal forms have been picked up
in the Roads, and brought in here to-day.
GUERNSEY, MARCH 21.—Arrd. Heroine, Shields. for
St. Thomas. A clinker built boat, with white bottom
andgreen top, mar ked Mary Ann, North Shields, on the
stern, was picked up off Beechey Head, by the Heroine,
arrived here. The wreck of a boat of about 14 feet
keel, with " Sirocco, Sunderland, John Aynsley," on
the stern, has been picked up at the north-west end
of this island.
SHEERNESS, MARCH 24.—The Vigilant, from Gotten-
burg to Havre, has been assisted in here, leaky,and with
deck cargo thrown overboard, after beating on the Long-
sands.
OFF DOVOR, MARCH 26.—Eliza, Rankin, St Domingo,
for Antwerp ; Vigilance, Pernambuco, for Stockholm ;
Vesta, New York, for Hambrirgh.
PORTSMOUTH, MincH-24—Wind N.N.E. to N. by W.
25, N.N.W.—SId. Anna Robertson, Madras ; Edward,
M artinique.
COWES, MARCH 24.—The Amiable Rosarito, Which
was ashore on the rocks off West Cowes Castle, was
assisted off last night, brought into the harbour, and
discharged.
BRIDPORT, MARCH 24.—SId. Devon, Newfoundland.
BancuAm, MARCH 23.—The Ann, Sparring, from
Liverpool to Dunkirk, has put in here with cargo shifted,
having been struck by a sea off Portland, and thrown on
her beam ends.
SALCOMBE, MARCH 23.—Arrd. the Era, London, Rio.
PLYMOUTH, MAncH 23.—Wind N.E..; 25, N.W.—
Arrd. Tobago, London, for New Zealand. Sld. Bernard,
Sierra Leone ; Magnet, Grenada ; Ann, Lang, Jamaica;
Rover, Newfoundland.
FALMOUTH, MARCH 23.—Wind E.N.E. to N., strong
breezes. 24. N.N.E. to N. moderate. Ski. the Eleanor,
for Algiers.
OFF WEYMOUTH, MARCH 25.—The Tyrer, Shadwell,
for Calcutta.
PADSTOW, MARCH 24.--The Blundell, Bennett, from
Trinidad to Dublin, has put in here with loss of boat
and bulwarks, crew sick,. and short of-provisions.
BRISTOL, MARCH 24.—Sld. Elizabeth, Boston.
MILFORD, MARCH 24.—The Hebe, from Liverpool to
Wisbeach, having washed up among some rocks, will
be told, it being expected she will go to pieces.
CLYDE, MARCH 23.—S1d. Barlow, New York ; Cathe-
rine, Malta.
CORE, MARCH 23.—Arrd. Clyde, Liverpool, for St.
John's, New Brunswick; Highlander, Leghorn,
KINSALE, MARCH 21.—S1d. Lord Sandon, St. John's,
New Brunswick.
SHIELDS, MARCH 24.—William Wallace, Bombay.

THE MARKETS.-THIS DAY.
NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.

There was a good supply of meat ; the demand was
heavy, and the advanced rates paid last w(ek were
barely maintained. There was also a moderate supply
of Lamb at market, the demand was brisk, and prices
moderate—viz., Gs. to ts;'.l3d( per stone of 81b. ; Beef,
3s. to 3s. Bd. ; Mutton, 3s. to 3s. 10d..; Veal, 4s. 4d. to
ss. 4d. ; Pork, 4s. to ss. per stone of 81b. Of Game
and Poultry a largo supply, trade heavy, and prices the
same as last quoted.
NV H ITECHA PIM MARKET.

The supply «as good, with a brisk demand except
for Beef. The prices of Veal, Lamb, and Mutton, were
fully supported. Beef and Pork rather declined. Beef,
2s. to 3s. Gd. ; Mutton, 2s. 4d. to 3s. 10d.; Veal, 3s. 4d.
to ss. 4d. ; Pork, 2s. 4d. to ss. ; Lamb, ss. Bd. to 7s. Bd.
Clover, 21. to 51. Bs. ; Hay, 2/. to 41. 4s. ; Straw, 1/. 12s.
to 11. 16s.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.:
Woonwlcrt, MABen 25.—The Hecla, steam-vessel,
Lieutenant Commander J. B. Cragg, recently serving on
the West Indian and North American station, arrived at
Woolwich on Monday, and „ill be paid off at the dock-
yard in the course of next week.
The Lightning? steam-vessel, Lieutenant Commander
E. C. PearoP, arrived from Plymouth on Monday.
Vie Kite steam-vessel, Lieutenant Commander T. J.
GOech,was taken into-the basin on Wednesda3, to have
the fixed for the • standard compass, ordered to be
fitted in all the steam-vessels in her Majesty's navy.
On Thursday the crew -of.the Kite were paid wanes in
advance, and she is expected to leave immediately for
Plymouth.
The Blazer steam-vessel, Commander John Steane,
lately on the West Indian station, and at present at
Woolwich, is ordered to be paid off next week.
The Cornwall transport-chip was towed down from
Deptford by the Confiance and Monkey steam• vessels on
Tuesday.

The i'lorgon steam-vessel; Capt. W. H. Henderson,
arrivkl at Woolwich on Tuesday evening from the Me-
diterranean. and on the following day detachments of the
Royal Artillery, forming part of the Syrian expedition,
were disembarked and joined the garrison. The Gorgon
is'ordered to be paid otf at the Dock-yard in-the
~_oprse
of next week.

The Geyser is in the basin fitting for sea. Yesterday
morning one of the crew, while employed in washing
some potatoez in the water pumped out of the inner
ba: in by a steam-engine, lost his balance, and was pre-
cipitated nearly 20 feet amongst the bricks used in con-
structing the new duck. He "as. mach bruised by the
fall, and was immediately taken to the Marine Infirmary,
where he obtained prompt medical attendance.
APPOINTMENTS.—Captain Edward J. Johnson has
been appointed to superintend the fitting of the pillar for
Azimuth compasses in all ships and vessels, and also the
application of rules prepared by the Magnetic Committee
for ascertaining the deviations of the- compass. Lieu-
tenant Charles Cleveland to the Styx. Mr. R. T. Saun-
ders, Second Master, to the •Lightning, vice Bowers,
promoted. Mr. J. R. Risk, Assistant-Surgeon, to the
William and Mary yacht, for service in Woolwich Dock-
yard. Mr. A. 0. Hansard, Mate, to the Geyser. Mr.
F. Robinson, Mate, to the Shearwater ; and K.
Foot, Mate, to the Kite.
ROYAL ENciNEEns.-,—Majoi' Aldrich and Lieutenant
Skyring, of the Ro3 al Engineers, with Sergeant William
Black, and thirteen rank and file of the Royal Sappers
and Miners, arrived at head quarters at Woolwich, in
the Gorgon steam-vessel from the coast of Syria. The
entire party appeared to be in excellent health, notwith-
standing they had sufTered much at Mount -Carmel and
Beirout from the fever peculiar to the country. The
sergeant and one of the privates acre formerly employed
under Colonel Chesney of the Royal Artillery, in the
celebrated Euphrates expeditiim. The prejudice of the
inhabitants of Beirout against modern improvements ap-
pears singular. There is no landing place for vessels t
that fortified town, the, inhabitants wading up to their
middle to take on shore' such articles as may arrive, by
water. - The .Royal Sappers and Miners assisted by a
party of the Royal Artillery formed a small wharf wall
which would admit of small craft coming alongside for
landing goods ; but the inhabitants were determined not
to use it as it would be departing from their ancient cus-
tom and they still actually wade into the water as for-
merly, and carry the goods on their back to the opposite
side in preference to landing-them at the wharf. An
American missionary has a school at Beirout, and the
children of the inhabitants are permitted to attend,
although their parents are- so prejudiced in favour of
ancient customs, so far as they are themselves concerned.

MAGISTERIAL INCONSISTENCY
AND PARTIALITY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Si ,—As a subscriber to your valuable Journal for
years past, I beg to call your attention, to one amongst
the instances continually occurring, of the present ini-
quitous system of licensing public houses, and the
gross partiality exhibited on the occasion.
An application last year for a license to the Kenil-
worth Castle, New North road, Islington, was opposed
by a memorial signed by a number of the most respect-
able inhabitants, got up by themselves, and rejected by
C.° Magistrates, on the grounds that there were four
licensed houses within a short distance of the Kenil-
worth Castle, besides fourteen beer houses in the im-
mediate vicinity ; on application, however, this year, a
license is granted, although the grounds on which the
former application was rejected remain precisely the
same. To say • nothing of the injury sustained by the
licensed victuallers already established in the neigh-
bourhood, the injustice of the measure becomes glaringly
apparent from the circumstance of a widow, the pro-
prietor of a well regulated beer-shop, within twenty-five
yards of the Kenilworth Castle, having made applica-
tion for eleven successive years. Couple this with the
fact that the successful applicant of the Kenilworth Castle,
was formerly high constable of the borough of Fins-
bury, and presumptive proof is afforded that the conduct
of the Licensing Magistrates on this occasion was influ-
enced by anything but disinterested motives, there being
no increase of neighbourhood, or ever will be. ,
I am, Sir,
March 23d, 1842. •. A. LOVER OF JUSTICE.
The B: IN•T

...ritish Museum re-opens on .kvlonday, and
continue open all the week until Friday, inclusive, from
ten o'clock until four. The National Gallery at Trafal-
gar-square, Charing-croSs, will be open each day from
Monday to Thursday, from ten till six o'clock.
TEE NEW TERRACE IN PICCADILLY.—The Board

of Works, we hear, have agreed to make the projected
improvements on the south side of Piccadilly. We allude
to the widening of the public road, twenty feet, from
Hyde Park corner, to the ground opposite Devonshire
House, and erecting a terrace along the whole line. The
ground to be taken from the Green Park. There is one
condition annexed, natneiy-, that the parish should keep
the whole in repair. The two lodges, i. e., the one
where the late ranger's lodge stood, and the other' oppo-
site the basin, are to be,reinoved instanter. The keeper
of the latter goes to the Albeit •gate, at Knightsbridge.
Numerous workmen- have been employed in plant-
ing oak and elm trees in the vacant ground opposite the
statue of Achilles. in Hyde. Park. They commenced
their operations on Monday last.
A few days ago a woman, named Oriez, living at
Colmar, in the Haut Rhin, hiving cause to complain of
the treatment of her husband, determined to procure a
separation, and, in order to take the prelinary steps,
went to Belfort. Her husband waylaid her, and, com-
ing suddenly upon her, discharged a pistol at her, but
the bullet missed, and only the wadding- struck her.
Seeing this failure, Oriez stabbed her several times with
a knife, and she sunk from loss of blood. Believing her
to be dead, and overcome either with remorse or terror,
he reloaded the pistol, shot himself, and fell dead on his
wife's body: She, however, after a time revived. and re-
lieving herself from the corpse, made her way to 6 village
near at hand, where she had her wounds dressed, and is
fast recovering. _ _

In consequence of the late riotous acts near Pecq,
arising out of the quarrel between two parties of work-
men, called Loups and Renards, employed on the Paris
and Rouen Railroad, thirty-seven men were, two days
since, brought before the Cot-recd.:nal Tribunal of Ver-
ssilles. Twenty were sentenced to confinement for three
days, ten for six days, one for fifteen days, and one for
two months. The Court also ordered the prisoners to
pay, jointly or severally, 3204, as damages, to the per-
sons whom they had injured. Five were acquitted.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. —RE BARNETT
JOSEPH.—We ate requested to state that the evidence
ascribed in our report of the above case, on the Bth inst.
to Mr. Raybold, was incorrect. We are assured that it
was by an error of our Reporter that Mr. Raybold was
made to describe himself as having been tried at the Old
Bailey on criminal charges.

Observateur oehrussels states that the Belgian
Inspector of Police, M. Hody; gave orders, a few days since, to
Mr. Barrington, an English gentleman of respectability re-
siding at Bruges, to quit the Belgian territory within 21 hours,
but the latter appealed to the British Consul, and, after some
warm remonstrances on the part of that functionary, the order
was rescinded. The cause of this measure is not stated.

On the 6th of March, 1842, died, at his residence,
the Schloss Seehof, near Bamberg, in Bavaria, after a
few days' illness, in the 56th year of his age, most deeply
and deservedly lamented, Frederick Baron von Zandt,
of Ovington Park, Hants, and of Clarges-street, London,
Chamberlain of his Majesty the King of Bavaria, and
Baron of the Holy Roman Empire.
THE GREENWICH WATER M EN'S COM PANY.—A
highly respectable and numerous Vestry meeting was
held in the Vestry-room at Greenwich, on Thursday
night, to take the case of the poor persecuted watermen
into consideration, and to determine on the propriety of
allowing them the right to use the Garden-stairs as a land-
ing-place. Messrs. Parker, T. Hall, Graves, Irving, Hick-
man, and many °aim* denounced the conduct of the
Pier Directors as most arbitrary, and would, if they had
the power, be most monopolizing. A resolution allowing
the watermen the use of the stairs as far as the parish
have the power, was carried without a dissentient voice,
and after giving three eheers the meeting separated.
A return relating .to Friendly Societies enrolled
in the several counties.of England and 'Wales, has just
been lard before Parliainent. The name of each Society,
the places where established‘ and the date of enrolment,
are given. The number altogether amounts to nearly
5,000.
SUFFOCATING COUGH. --, A correspondent of the
London Medical Gazi:tte has discovered a remed for
gto loaffceetsir. eMy method of proceeding,"the patient's nostrils with my
inspiration, and in a very short time
sttthlhaiyeiusmsmdbhifsretea'renedd's'suiisifi. loinregfinger (hiring expiration, and leaving
the patient will be relieved from his paroxysm. I have
followed this plan whenever' I have had occasion to do
so, and always with success."
A
Meeting , will be held
next
Hall, at which W. Beckett, Esq. and W. Aldham, Esq.
Members for the BoroUgh, will be invited to attend. We
Thursdayof the
Evening,
six o
of '
clock, Leeds, will the Music.
have no doubt the attendance will be very numerous and
respectable. The example is worthy of imitation in
other towns. We believe the opinion of - the Electors of
Leeds will he found to be very strongly against the
Income Tax.—Leeds Mercury.
This morning, about nine o'clock, the body of a
man, in a very mutilated State, was taken out of the
river, on the Surrey side, near W
e. atfrloo-brid-
g A shell
was immediately procured, and it was taken to the
bone-house of St. John's, in the Waterloo-road, to await
a coroner's inquest, which is expected to be held this

evening.
We understand that the Rev. Robert Montgomery
to-morrow
oprceoascvh
evening at St.
(George's
d (Easter-'day) Chapel, Albemarle-street,
and to prevent the
inconvenience whic attended the crowded state of the
congregation on the last occasion, all strangers are re-
quested to enter by the north door only, where each per-
son will be shown into a pew upon giving a contribution,
on admission, towards the fund for a Poor Free Church,
to complete which the sum of 8001. yet ramains to be
coLected.

HEARTLESS- CASE OF HOCEiSS-

_
ING AND ROBBERY.
I CAUTION TO YOUNG FEMAL'Es.--On Tuesday last
Jane Mills, a young woman, 19 years of age, whose
father 'had served for many years in the Royal Artillery,
for which he now enjoys a pension, and at present re-
sides at 5, Jackson's-lane, Woolwich-common, came to
town to look for a situation, and having called upon one
or two friends, and leaving het' address at the shops of
various tradesmen, with a view of getting a place, was
about to return home to her father's, between eight and
nine o'clock in the evening. While. passing along King
William-street, towards London-bridge, she was accosted
by a middle-aged woman, of respectable appearance, who
asked her the Way to Aldgate. Mills replied she did not
know, that she was a stranger to London, and that she
had merely come to ;town that clay to look for a
situation, and that, being unsuccessful in her efforts, was
returning to her parents, at Woolwich. The female
upon this remarked that, as she would have to come to
town on the following day, to follow up her object in
getting a situation, it would* much more advisable to
remain ; and, as she had a comfortable home, she would
be happy, under the circumstances, 'to accommodate her
with a bed for the night, ank moreover, would assist her
in looking for a place the next day. The young woman,
supposing her to be a respeadde—person, foolishly com-
plied with the stranger's request, and having asked an-
other person her way to Aldgate, they proceeded
together in , that direction. In proceeding along Fen-
church-street, the elder female prevailed on the younger
to go to the Grapes public-house, 'where they had two
quarterns of gin, of n Welt the latter drank two glasses,
and from that time until seven o'clock on the following
morning, she was perfectly unconscious of what had
happened to her, and no doubt can exist but that some
powerful drug had been adriiinistered to her. At six
o'clock on the following mornine., while Seijeant Barker
H 11, and police constable" Sullivan H 80, were going
their rounds, their attention was directed to a privy, in a
filthy court off Essex-street, Whitechapel, by a man who
said he had endeavoured to get in but could not, and on
going to it and forcing the door open, they found the
young woman Mills as naked as when she was born, and
in a state of insensibility. Sedeant Barker humanely took
off his great coat, and having wrapped it round her,
had her at once removed to the police station-house in
Spital-square, and put to'lled in his serjeant's private
apartments upstairs. Restoratives were administered by
' Mrs. Barker, and in a short time the young woman
began to recover her recollection, and entreated those
about her to tell her where she was. She was soon
enabled to tell who and what she was, and what had
happened as above relate4but did not recollect anything
that took place after being in the public-house in Fen-
church-street. Sergeant Barker communicated with her
friends, who sent her the necessary articles of clothing,
and on Thursday being. s4,tl4ciently recovered, she was
taken home by her father. The articles of which she
had been robbed, as well as a few shillings in money,
were worth from 41. to 51., and the police are active in
their efforts to apprehend the heartless wretch by whom
she has been so grossly deceived and stripped.