The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-06 00:00:00

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURi'.
THE POST-OFFICE CASES.—H. Warner, aged 18, who
yesterday pleaded guilty, to an indictment charging him
with stealing a letter containing a 101. note, was brought
IT fur judgment this morning, and sentenced to trans-
portation for 15 years.
Richard Horton, who was yesterday convicted of
stealing a post letter containing a sovereign, received a
similar sentence.
THE FORGER/. CASE.—John Mathews and John .135r-
°er, who were yesterday convicted of uttering a forged
101. Bank note; were this morning brought up for judg-
ment, and respectively sentenced to transportation for
15 years.

STREET ROBBERY, WITH VIOLENCE.—Thomas Muller,
aged 20, was indicted for assaulting William Cannon on
the Queen's highway, and stealing from his person a
knife, and Is. 6d. in money.
On the night of the 17th December the prosecutor
was attacked in Wentworth-street, Whitechapel, by two
men, who knocked him down and took from him the
Property in question. He believed the prisoner to have
been one of them.
Sarah Ward witnessed the attack on the prosecutor,
and swore distinctly to the prisoner as one of the assail-
ants; she gave information to a policeman, who took the
prisoner into custody. When taken by the policeman
the Prisoner s sleeve was covered with blood.
Air. PAYNE having addressed the Airy for the pri-
soner,
Mr. Baron GURNEY summed up.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. He was sen-
tenced to fifteen years' transportation.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY. —Ann Gifford, aged 27, yes-
terday pleaded guilty to ten indictments, charging her
with stealing in a dwelling-house. This morning
I,Ph'aso Gifford, aged 25, was placed in the dock,
stole with feloniously receiving certain of the goods
by Ann, well knowing them to have been stolen.
Knir-O•PHIELIPPS stated th care to the Jury, and called
-.11. Watson, who 'resides in Shoreditch.. The pri-
sOner Ann came to her house sometime in December,
to O'er as a servant. The prisoner gave a reference,
anti Airs. Watson went there, but found the reference
was- a fahe one. During her absence the female pri-
soner stole a watch from the drawing-room.
The female servant of Mrs. Watson corroborated her
MistresN's testimony.
shopmaa of Mr. Hazard, pawnbroker, proved
at the male prisoner had pledged the watch at his
IPartter's shop, and, at the time of doing so, said he had
Lre,quently pledged the same watch before, which had
to his father.
s„t be police inspector who took the prisoner into cus-
;ey tbund the duplicate for the watch on his person.
Ile said the female prisoner was his wife.
beCross-examined by Mr. BaLLANTINE—He said he had
en only recently married to her. The prisoner af-
fetrirt.led him every facility in making his search.
vr.
BALLANTINE having addressed the Jury for the •
softer, and called several witnesses to character,
vmAir. Baron GURNEY summed up, and the Jury found
e, prisoner Guilty.
.14. answer to a question from the Jury,
, 4.1 r. Baron GURNEY stated that the female prisoner
4.4 been before transported.
When the prisoners were called up for judgment the
ir,ln Prisoner said that he was not aware that his friends
)1"4 employed Counsel to defend him, or he should have
If: e n his Counsel information to conduct his defence.
then entered into a long rambling statement as to his
',ollduct, with a view of showing that he had no guilty
:nwledge of the acts of his wife. During his address
the Court the female prisoner fainted away. On her
recovery,
_5Mr. Baron GURNEY sentenced her to transportation for
-1 Years, and Alphonso Gifford to transportalion for 14
They were then removed from the bar, the male
Prisoner making vehement protestations of his innocence.

NE W COURT.
William Todd, aged 28, a shoemaker, was convicted of
stealing at Greenwich, on the 14th December, two spoons,
value 10s., the property of William Cox.
The prisoner was p
sentenced by the Court to six months'
imprisonment and hard labour.
CuRISTDIAS FREAK.—Janies Low was indicted with
t'aling, on the 27th of last month, a silver watch, a gold
a purse containing money, a pocket-book, and other
ankles, the property of Mr. Robert Reid.
The case came on before Mr. Halls, at Bow-street a
few fen days ago, and the facts have been already given at
gth. From the evidence, it appeared that Mr. Reid,
who resided at Hastings, had come up to town to enjoy
the amusement of Christmas. That on the 27th of last
month he dined with some friends and drank more wine
than did him good. About seven o'clock in the evening
be went to the Lowther-rooms, where' he had sundry
'bottles of porter and glasses
of gin and water, which
Completely finished him, and he was totally unaware
'what he said or did till the next morning, at six o'clock,
When he found himself at the George Inn, in the Bo-
rough, discovered his loss, and made it known
to the police. The prisoner, who sweeps a cross-
ing in the neighbourhood of Hanover-square,
Was at the Lowther-rooms on the night in ques-
tion, and was seen repeatedly in company with
~the prosecutor, and drinking with him. Suspicion
filling upon him, he was taken into custody, and in his
Pockets and on his finger were found an empty purse, a
Watch-hey, and a ring, which were identified by the pro-
secutor. At the prisoner's lodgings were also found two
Pocket-books, containing three sovereigns, and the du-
eleate of a watch. The watch and one of the pocket-
oks was sworn to by the prosecutor.
.The prisoner denied the robbery, but
tolsl'e. Jury, without calling', upon the Learned Judge
Z.n uP, -found him Guilty.
impris Justice MAULE sentenced him to eight months'
meet and hard labour.
anaePh Adams, a most respectable man, in appearance,
dieted Bribed in the calendar as a merchant, was in-
of go '''r forging and uttering an order for the delivery
Ah!'da, with intent to defraud Emma Clapham.
pros CLAntisoN addressed the Jury on behalf of the
cantor, and Mr. DOANE defended the prisoner.
Thei)roeerf.o,llowing witnesses were called on behalf of the
Hessn,u
_p Clapham stated that she carried on the busi-
ceiv:,''_a milliner, in New Bond-street. On the 7th re-
fr " 4 letter by the General Post, purporting to come
41 Airs. et,l
Patterns f "el Hill, requesting her to send some
IV. h velvet dresses to Newport, in the Isle of
„ t. Reent,. , .BSeS
Irom
vely
the
arded a
;a",,r,ect another letter, purporting to come
she forvv -1° Party, in consequence of which
the ito
M Colonel Hill, at
.al yori_ et dress to Airs. produced 1' Late), Southampton. The dress now
ce• '''43 the o ived anothe I thampton. Re-
ne forwarded to Sou
1g another. r etter approving of the dress, and order:
cions, and , This caused witness to entertain suspt-
guineas ner brother went to Southampton. Fifteen
cros as charged for the dress.
etcher examined by Mr. DOANE.—The letters all came
• roil, New
The different leP
tort orouthamto.
d read.
Bettel—
t w ere t
Novemberhen putlast
wasaa
sn
waiter at the
to Southampton, Received a parcel addressed
at the Hill, Hill, which he delivered to the prisoner
ceived •' who had called at the hotel before, and re-
, letters addressed there for Mrs. Colonel Hill. The
-rrisuner
represented himself to be Colonel Hill, and
Kt° mg him to be so, witness gave him the parcel.
was Hill —Was the widow of Colonel Hill.
vv.e_ reng a t New.port, in the Isle of Wight, in No-
he'nr.ue,r
fitness
The prisoner at the bar was a stranger to
let, A itness did not write, or cause to be written, the
Cross-examined
now produced.
\dross., .
gamed yby Mr. DOANE—Did not know a lady
ci Carnegie, residing at Newport.
Isabella Scott—Was the widow of General Scott, who
Na's an officer in America. Witness married him at
York. The prisoner had dined with them at New
ztnDid not come from America with the prisoner.
ess, on coming here resided in Sackville-street.
e prisoner lodged there. Witness had seen the pri-
rner write, and had read what he had written after-
-1
,ards. The letters produced witness (after some hesita-
„s4) stated, she thought, were in the hand-writing of
.ue prisoner.
Cross-examined by Mr. DoANE—Thought the letters
'Were in the prisoner's hand-writing..
'Ann Hatton— Was a widow. Was residing in South-
ampton in November last. Made the acquaintance of
the prisoner at Cowes. Purchased the dress produced
from
sixteen guineas
the prisoner, for s , on the Monday
previous to his being taken. into cßarrister,
ustod)
the prisoner said a friend ot his, a
had the dress to dispose of , • that he had had it for a
ley to whom hq was going to be married, but that, from
Some cause or other, it did not do. Shortly after witness
Purchased the dress she read the account in the news-
Papers of the prisoner being taken into custody, and sent
fi word to the officers that she had the dress.
Derry, a sergeant in the Southampton police, took the
prisoner into custody. Found upon him a gold watch,
ring, and 12s. On further searching him, in a small
leather bag, bung round his neck, witness found several
duplicates, a 5/. note, and two sovereigns.
This was the case for the prosecution.
Mr. DOANE addressed the Jury for the prisoner.
Mr- Justice MAULE summed up, and the Jury, after a
short consultation, found the prisoner Guilty.
SA former conviction at the Somerset Quarter
siens was put in, by which it appeared
that he was convicted of stealing two watches and
Sentenced to seven years' transportation in 1834. A free
pion in 1837, which was found in the possession of the
Sri don
was then put in.
tr ausportatiston
Juice MAULE sentenced him to fifteen years'
Pu-

of
letter antS EY s Is4.—lt would seem that the Archbishop
the erbury has not always viewed Puseyism through
sate spectacles, and that threats are held out that
out, sshoul of his Grace, carefully preserved, will creep
d he be so ill advised as to take any part
against his former friends. We suppose our Content-
tZrarY, the Standard, had his Grace of Cantere-
efrY in his eye in his yesterday's gallant defence
v.elneonsistency. Mutatis mutandi,s—it will serve
~
;" Archbishop as well as the Home Secretary. His
I'l,lnies will say, and the vulgar will be too ready to
r:,",ve, that he is always a deserter who is not alvi.'a3so
the same ranks." The occupant of Lambed:l
rittfar
ui,ffers from the occupant of the Vatican, that he does
bQ ielaiin to be always infallible, though he can never the
veil Fong,— (, 'ironic ie.
eldCrlterday evening, about half-past five,
.au
knaei4 entleman was knocked down and run over. by directi:s cart, which was proceeding furiously in the.
nate gerlil Pentonville ; when picked up, the unfortu
assistatiete'enlan was, after receiving temporary medical
An taken to Bartholomew's hospital.
at Leicasula flan of 90, named Thomas Chew, died
inesrt°llßuzzard a few days ago. The deceased was
on, and eccentric person ; he died with his best clothes
andterrecr Particularly requested that he should be se in-
, t forgetting
, no
to put on his great top coat, hat,
yiiil2ll4. Ildkerchief, and which request has been complied

IDENTITY O.F THE TEN HOURS'
DEPUTATION, WITH THE CHARTISTS OF
THE NORTHERN STAR.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—lt may be something to know, that the
plan proposed to Sir James Graham by the cele-
brated Ten Hours' Deputation, is intrinsically
the same with that which has been so vigorously
paraded by the section known by the name of the
Northern Star Chartists, in opposition to the re-
moval of the Corn-laws.
Here follows, first, the proposal of the. Chart-
ists as taken from pages 21 and 22 of the
pamphlet entitled "The Land; how to get it,
and how to use it," sold by J. Cleave, Shoe-lane,
and by all booksellers, price twopence. And
afterwards, the proposal of Messrs. Fleming,
Hobson, Leech, Crabtree, and Brooke, as ex-
tracted from the Times of Jan. 4. 1842.
'—my Lords and Gentlemen,—l am nothing daunted; and
shall, therefore,—proceed at once to my purpose, which
is to apply details to your principle of reclaiming waste
land. Of that land you have in Great Britain and Ire-
land more than fifteen millions of acres capable of re-
clamation. It at all events can scarcely be called your
own, and is tha'refore out of the Newcastle principle of
doing what you please with it. By its proper appropria-
tion you not only do not suffer damage, but on the con-
trary, I propose to do for you what you cannot do for.
yourselves: to make it valuable. I estimate that land
at a rent of one shilling and fourpence per acre. I cal-
culate that each acre in the out-set, taking the tenant's
house and stock and means of subsistence till the land
is brought to bear into account, would require
somewhere about seven pounds per acre, or a capital of
about ono hundred-pounds for every fifteen acres. The
fifteen-million acres allotted in farms of fifteen acres to
one million heads of families, would thus require a
capital of one hundred millions of pounds sterling to aid
the working communities in their work of reclamation.
The value of those fifteen millions of acres, at twenty
years' purchase, at a rent of one shilling and fourpence
per acre, would cast government 20,000,0001.
Now what I propose is, that government shall
purchase the lands from you, say at that rate, and
then, under proper official management, at the head of
which should be a Cabinet Minister to be called the
Minister of Agriculture, lease those lands at one shilling
and fourpence per acre, in lots of fifteen acres, with a
capital of one hundred pounds advanced to each tenant,
subjecting the tenant to a rent of five pounds per an-
num for the land, and the interest of one hundred pounds
at four per cent, that is one pound for land and four
pounds for interest.
This sum of 120,000,0001. I propose to consolidate into
one national fund, which shall stand as a mortgage upon
the fifteen millions of acres, and over which the Parl;s-
ment alone shall have control ; and that it shall not be a
transferable stock, or a stock allowed to be made the
medium of exchange, barter, or traffic. in the Jews' tem-
ple ; but that the government shall merely be agent for
the fund-holder and fund-payer--receiving from the one
and paying to the other.
I propose that after the first eleven years the tenant
shall yearly pay. ten pounds in liquidation of his debt,
thereby liquidating the whole amount at the end of the
next ten years, or with the twenty- firstyear of his tenancy;
at the close of which period—twenty-one years—l propose
that the tenant shall pay no more than the original
chief-rent, of one shilling and fourpence per acre, and
all local taxes; or a pound.per annum for his holding for
ever and ever, and Amen—until some future generation,
in its wisdom, shall see the State necessity of making
the then occupiers —(themselves being parties)—pay
something more as their quota of any national require-
ment.'—The Land, 6-c. By Feargus O'Connor, Esq.
Here follows the Deputation's version ; which,
after the Roman general's simile, is the same
pork, with a little difference in the dressing.—
' Sir J.' Graham.—What would you recommend ?
The. Deputation„—The adoption of a comprehensive
and efficient plan of home colonization ; for which pur-
pose we would advise the passing, at the expense of the
nation, of a general waste-land inclosure hill, which
should make provision for reasonable compensa-
tion to all those interested in, these lands. We
should then have a Parliamentary grant raised by
loan, or by Exchequer-bills, to be applied under a
board of control to the. settling down upon these un-
cultivated but improvable wastes our now unemployed
population ; and if the waste lands were insufficient we
would recommend that the Government should have re-
course to the Crown lands for the same purpose and in
the. same way. This would increase real wealth at home,
direct the energies of the people in the first place to
provide food and shelter for themselves, and the surplus
of their labour would form a fund for defraying the
necessary expenses, and ultimately repaying the prin-
cipal advanced.' . .
It is impossible to let the Deputation go, with-
out a point-blank denial of sonic of the principal
positions, which they seem to think their own
declaration sufficient to impress on the undis-
puted belief of all human beings:
The Deputation proceeded to say, that according to
the arguments presented in favour of the policy of
causing the operatives to be dependent on a foreign mar•
ket for employment, it was admitted that our ascendancy
in those foreign markets could only be kept up by a con-
tinuous cheapening of the cost of production. How
was that to be effected ? It could not •be done by
reducing much lower the wages of the adult ope-
ratives. That class of labourers were as near the
bare " subsistence level," when in full employ, as it was
possible to place them. The only way, therefore, to do
it was by still further-displacing these adult and com-
paratively high-priced labourers by self-acting machi-
nery, or machinery so contrived that what little attend-
ance it might require would be that of women and chil-
dren, and as little even of that as possible ; and thus we'
shall to the same result. The great bulk of the
labouring classes would be thrown idle, whether we ex-
tended or restricted our foreign trade under the present
direction of machinery.'
It is not admitted, but on the contrary stre-
nuously denied, that " our ascendancy in foreign
markets can only be kept up by a continuous
cheapening of the cost of production." We want
to have, as our fathers had, the power of enjoy-
ing those branches of trade and manufactures
for which the country has natural advantages,
without being checked by legislative restric-
tions. It is not admitted, but strenuously
denied, that the only way to preserve our
markets is by the substitution of women and
children for other labourers. We want to
have those markets from which we are
hindered by the tax on food, and nothing else.
It is not admitted that the bulk of the labouring
classes will be thrown idle under the present
direction of machinery whether we extend our
foreign trade or restrict it ; for it is contended
on the contrary, that the superior power of in-
venting and working machinery, is what God
has given us as the means of holding our ground
in the honourable competition of nations.
When the landowner finds his efforts bounded,
be does not bethink himself of contenting him-
self without them, nor of going to Prime Mini-
sters to represent that there would be no use in
making him further openings because steam-
ploughs would swallow up the difference. But
he goes straight to the pockets of his neighbonrs,
and takes out of them what shall make both
ends meet. And this it is, whether they know it
or not, that the Deputation are working to con=
ceal.

Yours, very sincerely,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON.
Blackheath, Jan. 6, 1842.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR-I shall be glad if some of your clerical
readers can tell us how Bishop Monk can be
allowed to hold the following :
Bishopric of Gloucester and Bristol, 3,7001.
per annum";
A Canonry in Westminster Abbey, 1,0001. per
annum, and a house ;
Pealirk Rectory, Diocese of Peterborough,
5001. per annum clear.
Was it through the interest of the Bishop of
London, that great reducer of clerical incomes—
except where he or his friends were concerned?
All the Bishops, except those of Canterbury,
London, Winchester, and Ely, are obliged to
hire houses in town at a great expense : the
favoured Monk has one rent free.

It is a shame that Bishop Monk should retain
Peakirk, which he presented himself to as Dean
of Peterborough; he ought to have been made
to resign this when he got Bristol to hold with
Gloucester also. The Stall at Westminster may
be worth more than I have put it at.—Yours,
Jan. 5. A RATIONAL REFORMER.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY.—
During the whole of Monday Inspector Stubbs and
Superintendent Cumming, of the I) division, were ac-
tively engaged in endeavouring to trace out the perpe-
trators of an extensive robbery of jewellery, &c., which
on the previous evening was committed at the resi-
dence of Pedder, Esq., No. 7, Great Cumberland-
street, Hyde Park. The property carried oft con-
sists of a valuable gold watch, gold brooches, brace-
lets, chains, &c., many of the said articles being set
with diamonds and other costly stones. From the exa-
mination which has been made, it appears that footmarks
have been traced from the back of a house in Bryanston-
street to the premises of Mr. Pedder, and that the thieves
having thus gained an entrance into the back yard, suc-
ceeded in possessing themselves of the valuable property
in question, which was deposited in Mr.Pedder's bedroom.
The amount of the articles stolen is,it is stated, about 2001.
Lord Ashburton is expected to arrive at Bath
House, Piccadilly, on Monday next, from his seat, the
Grange, Hants, to make his final arrangements for de-
parting on his important special mission to the Govern-
ment of the United States. His Lordship, we under-
stand, will embark at Portsmouth, on board a
instant. Govern-
ment steam frigate, for New York, about Monday, the
24th He will be attended by only a limited
suite, as his Lordship's stay at Waghington, where the
personnel of our embassy already consists of Mr. Fox
and Mr. James Hudson (rendered illustrious for his dis-
patch in bringing Peel from Rome), is expected to be
brief. Lady Ashburton and the Hon. Misses Baring do
not accompany the Noble Envoy to America.
I understand," said a Deacon to his neighbour,
"that you are becoming a hard drinker." " That is a
slander," replied the neighbour; " for no man can drink
easier."

INCOME.

Customs.—Consolidated Duties
Sugar applicable to the
Consolidated Fund

Total Customs

Excise
StaMps
Taxes
Post Ottice
Crown Lands
Miscellaneous
Imprest and other Monies
Repayment of Advances

To Cash brought to this Account
to be applied to pay off Deficiency
8i115....

A,644,29:

4,037,896
1.59A,,45
1,786,771
9!',000
4 0,0 JO
11,437
32,5 i 6
1:23,918

11,332,336

11,372,3:36

3,689,266