The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, PEIIIIVARY 28, 1842.

the observance of one day in the week as a Sabbath,
and the fixing of the first day in place of the
seventh is not only unwarranted by Scrip-
ture, but is directly opposed to the reason
assigned for keeping the day holy. From the begin-
ning of time " God blessed the seventh day, and
sanctified it, because that in it he had rested from all
his work, which GOD created and made." Yet these
vain interpreters of the Divine Will, these dwellers
" in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust,
who are crushed before the moth," have the
impious audacity to thr eaten us with some terrible
calamity, because we deny their authority for
abstaining from all work on the first day of the week,
the very day on which God himself began the great
work of creation ! We are guided by the Scriptures,
and the Scriptures alone, and to these we confidently
appeal. In the New Testament, we have stated ten
times, there is no authority for the change. We
have challenged the Agnewites, and the only answer
we have yet received-is—not a quotation from Scrip-
ture—not an implied, much less a direct command
fro'n Christ or his Apostles, but the unmeaning asser-
" Few will venture to deny that the change was
made by the Apostles."
With these remarks we close the subject for the
present. In making them we have had two great
objects in view—to arrive at the truth, and.to pro-
tect the public against the persecution, slander, and
selfish machinations of a sect, which from the time of
our SAVIOUR have been the bane of society. We
wish to see the Sunday observed in a decent and be-
coming manner, but we have not the hypocrisy to
assert that it is more desecrated by the running of a
steam carriage than by the running of horses, which,
as well as man, according to the Fourth Command-,
ment, are to do no work on that day. We wish to
see a Christian people guided by reason and Scripture,
and not the cunning devices of men. We have no
wish to interfere with the conduct of any class. Let
those who please cease from all work—let them shut
themselves up in their houses—let them kindle no
fire on that day, nor do any work ; but let them not
presume, as ministers of peace, to call down the judg-
:nents of the Almighty on those who conscientiously
liffer from them. Let them obey one great com-
mand of our Savour, which they wilfully break
every day, and " Do unto Others as they wish others
to do unto them."

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FEB. 26.—The sales to-day
comprise 4,000 bales, principally low up to fair qualities ;
holders generally speaking are pressing sans; the trade can
consequently purcha'e on rather easier terms. Of the above
quantity exporters have taken 400 bags.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, FEB. 26.—Eastern Counties,
New, 31. 19s. 2d. ; eastern Counties Deb, ntures, 101. It's. 5d.;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 4,134 ; Great Western Half Shares,
61i ; Ditto Fifths, 10 ; London and Birmingham, 169 ; New,
.29A ; Paris and Rouen, 141.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 26 —We have
had a very quiet Market to-day in consequence of a scarcity of
Stock. London and South Western, 59 59k; Manchester and
Leeds, 73i 74 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 281 ; Lon-
don and Brighton, 351,4 36; Eastern Counties, 9 9i.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM.)
ROBINSON V. MILNER.

This came came before his Honour en exceptions and further
directions. The question in the suit, as ;Awed at the bar,
turned upon the sanity of a person of the name of William
Broad, at the time of executing a deed. The Master had
found that he was not competent. The ease was part heard
on Saturday, and found for the plaintiff, and concluded his reply
this morning.
His HONOUR, after comtrenting upon the evidence, and
stating that the case was one in which it was impossible for him
to decree specific performance. He dis Missed the bill with
costs, and bverraled the exceptions.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
The Court was engaged all the morning in trying the case of
Raymond v. the General Steam Navigation Company. The
plaintiff was the proprietor of a barge called the Leices•er,
which had been run down in the river by one of the steam-
packets belonging to the defendants. The case was of no in-
terest, except to the parties concerned.

INSOLVENT CO URT-(T HIS DAY)

IN ILK FREDERICK RODER TOW.

The insolvent in this case carried on business as a draper and
mercer. The amount of debts in his balance-sheet was consi-
derable, and amongst the creditors' names were those of Messrs.
Leaf, Cole, and Co., Scott and Day, Robson and Macgregor,
and several other warehousemen in the City. He had been
before the Court for Ficaria g some time back, when the case
was adjourned for the purpost‘of filing a fry sh balance sheet.
His petition to be discharged was opposed by Mr. Woodroffer
upon the grounds of having given an undue preference to a cre-
ditor of the name of Co!quhoun, by handing over to him a
number of bills of exchange which were becoming due
shortly before the time of his arrest, and with hav-
ing executed a warrant of attorney in favour of
his brother, and of having concealed the fact from
those from whom he got credit. The Learned Counsel
also opposed on the grounds of having made away with certain
property to the detriment of his estate, and having been a
party in a collusive judgment got against him by entering an
appearance immediately, and allowing that creditor to
issue execution prior to any of the -others; and further,
with having concealed certain books connected with his trade.
Several witnesses taving been examined, whose evidence oc-
cupied the entire morning, r
Mr. COOKE, on behalf of the insolvent, said he began-busi-
ness in January, 1839, with a good capital, but hav-
ing suffered much by sickness, he was placed in his pre-
sent position. With re'pect to the alleged preference in favour
of Mr. Colquhoun, the fact was, that he was the person who
suffered most of all the insolvent's creditors, as he had ad-
vanced large sums of ready "Loney, and of the bills of exchange
which he received in repayment the greater number had been
dishonoured when they became due. The books which he
was accused of having concealed, were nothing more but
a few memoranda, which he made whilst he was
in prison, and not at all connected with h's t ado
accounts. As far as the opposition for having concealed the
fact of having executed a warrant of attorney from his creditors
went, he (Mr. Cooke) would cite a case from a cl-cision pro
nou.med in October, 1837, by the Learned Chief Commis-
sioner himself, in the case of an insolvent named Davies, where
he held that the suppression of the fact of the existence of
a warrant of attorney was no offence under the Act.
The insolvent had been now in prison upwards of six months,
and he trusted that would be deemed more than sufficient for
an ins,lvency arising from ill health.
The Learned CHIEF COIIMISSIONEE said the case was so
complicated, and the evidence so lengthened, that he should
take some time before he would pronounce judgment, and he
should therefore defer it to Saturday next.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
The Sessions at the Old Bailey commenced this morning
before the Right Hon. Lord Mayor, the Recorder, Aldermen,
and Sheriffs. _

As soon as the Grand Jury had been sworn,
The RECORDER. delivered his charge to the following effect.
The cases that would be presented to them were of the ordinary
character, and contended no points of law calling upon him for
explanation. 'I here were two or three eases to which he
would briefly allude—of murder and manslaughter. In one of
these in which the prisoner was charged with the greatest offence,
it appearad that the blow had been inflicted with a dangerous
instrument, loaded heavily with stone. The prisoner, it ap-
peared, had followed the female, his victim, to a house, and had
watched the door until she came out, uttering language evincing
a disposition to strike her. The prisoner was in a state of in-
toxication at the time, but the Recorder felt bound to tell
the Jury that excitement of the passions, through the influence
of intoxication, was n 3 answer to any charge of assault. The
prisoner, in this case, struck the f male on her appearance at
the door, a blow which produced concussion of the brain, and
ultimately death. It became his duty to tell the Jury that if
the blow was inflicted without misconduct on the part
of the person injured, and inflicted with any instru-
ment of a dangerous nature, more especially if the
party inflicting the blow had appeared to have been watch-
ing an opportunity, under these circumstances by law, it
would be hold that the offence amounted to murder. If a
case should be proved to them as involving circumstances like
these, it would be the duty of the Jury to put that case in a
course for further inquiry. Another case to which he would
aliwie, involved a charge of murder on the high seas. It was
not an ordinary case, for the charge was against the captain's
mate of a vessel, for supplying bad provisions to two lads, and
at the same time exacting more labour from them than their
health would admit of, and which treatment was alleged
to have accelerated their deaths. The case was one
of great importance, and in which the Grand Jury would
make anxious inquiry. The third case to which he would al-
lude was one in which a blow of the fist had been inflicted in
a moment of intoxication, but which, although serious injury
was the consequence, did pot amount to murder, but came
under the denomination of manslaughter, as there did not ap-
pear to have been any indication of premeditation. After a few
other general remarks, the Learned Recorder ren itted the
Grand Jury to their several duties.

PO LICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.-7(TH:S DAY.)

John Slater, a scavenger, in the employ of Mr. Gore, the
dust-contractor, was charged with assexthingsirculd man mimed
Burgess, with an intent to do him some grievous bodily harm.
The prosecutor said— Please yer Vertship, about a quarter to
ten o'clockon Saturday morning, as I vos a starkting in Charles-
street, Covent-garden, having a conversation with a woman, this
tere Jack Slater come up ; vich I says to him, " Ain't yer
ashamed o' 3 erself to a bit my finger in the way you did," vich
the prisoner m..de no more ado, but he outs with a poker, and
lays it across my head.
By the Mantsraaxx—He bit my finger last week in my
room. I had no quarrel with him previously, nor can I assign
any reason for his conduct.
The prisoner, when called on for his defence, said, " Please
yer vership, I'll explain to yer how I did it, but I can't tell yer
'cos its so werry wulgar ; if yer vership will allow me, I'll jest
tell the hofficer how it was.

TI e MAGISTRATE—NO, no; you must tell it to me. I must
hear it, however bad it is.

The prisoner, who, like another young Douglas, blushed to
tell the opprobious terms that he had borne, then resumed,
" Please yer vership, that there man there 'as called me the
the most orrid names, and ht said as how I prostitooted
my wife's body, and lived by her prestitootion, and called
me names vich I'm ashamed to hutter. Veil being the vorse
tor liquor, I vent to see my father, wot lives in the next
room to Burgess. I sees Burgess, and I says to him, says I,
44 Burgess, how cum you to say as I lives by my wife's prosti-
tootin ? I works and for my living, I do ; I gets two bob a-day,
and works arder for it nor you do," on vich we quarrelled, and
I bit his thumb. Oh, Sir, please, yer Vorship, but I hope
you'll be in erry liberal with me. My wife's far gone in preg-
nant, and ni make any recompense in my power.
The MAGISTRATE-But this is not the charge. You are
not charged now for biting his linger, but for striking him
with a poker. (To the prosecutor)—Did you give the pri-
soner no provocation whatever yesterday morning ? Prosecutor
—None whatever.

Alfred Cross was then examined.—He said he knew neither
ofthe parties, but as he was going along Charles-street, he heard
the old man say to the prisoner, " Arn't you ashamed of biting
my finger ?" The young man pulled a poker out of his pocket,
and said, " If you come near me, beat your b:ains out
with a poker." The old man immediately took off his coat,
and flew in at the prisoner, when he struck him on the head ;
a woman next came up to the assistance of the young man,
when they all three rolled in the street together.
Hy the MAGISTRATE—I am sure the old man rushed at the
prisoner before he attempted to make use of the poker.
The MAGISTRATE—The old man has acted with great folly;
your evidence has thrown some light upon the subject, and
makes a great deal of difference in the case. The young man
was not near enough to have injured him with the poker, and
probably his threat would have ended in nothing, if the foolish
old man had not attempted to meddle with him.

I he Prosecutor—lle says he'll serve me so again if he gels off.
The prisoner expressed his sorrow at what he had done, and
said if the Magistate would look over it this time, he'd never
go near the old man again; he'd remove out of the street alto-
gether, and would get his master to give him another past of
the parish to attend to.
'lhe MAGISTRATE—WeII, as the case stands, I shall fine you
205., or 14 days' imprisonment.
The prisoner asked if he might have a little time to get the
money, and being answered in the affirmative, he seemed well
pleased with his escape.

MARLBORO 1U GL--STREET.)
(THIS DAY.)
John Wright, a young man of respectable 'appearance, was
placed at the bar on the following charge .—Police constable,
.No. 113, of the C division, stated that between seven and
eight o'clock on Saturday es ening last, he was on duty in plain
clothes, in Old Compton-street, Soho, and observed the pri-
soner, whom he knew to be the associate of thieves, frequently
pass and repass the shop-window of Mr. George Pettitt,
of No. 3, there, stationer, and that he appeared to be
closely observing the various trays of cutlery, silver-
topped inkstands, pencil cases, &c., set out to public
view, and at intervals looking about him to see if any person
was watching him. Shortly afterwards the prisoner went close
to the shop window, and stood there for some time, and then
walked a little further on ; he returned in a minute or two—
took up the same po4ition at the same window he had been at
l.efore, and appeared to be doing something to the lower part of
the frame. Witness then apprehended him, on which he was
making off, but was stopped and secured. On examining Mr.
l'ettit's shop window, a square of glass, opposite to which
the prisoner had been standing, was found to be cracked
completely across, by some instrument having been
forced into the putty, and with very little difficulty
one half of the broken pane would have been removed, which
would have left an aperture sufficiently large to extract various
trays of goods to a considerable amount. On searching the
prisoner a knife was found, one blade of which exactly fitted
the marks that had been made in the putty of the window.
The MAdisTaisTE stated he was hound to believe the police
constable on his oath. He should therefore commit him under
the Police Act to hard labour for one month.

WORSHIP-STREET—(THIS DAY.)
RUNNING INTO THE LION'S 310UTY.—TWO coal porters,
named Joseph Nelson and John Pegrant were charged with
having endeavoured to obtain charitable contributions by means
of false and fradulent representat'ons.
Mr. Pierce, the Superintendent of the H Division of Police,
stated that the prisoners called on Saturday evening at his house
he had in Princes-street, Spitalfields, and handed in a petition in
behalf of a coal porter, named Frederick Breed living at No.
21, Macclesfield-striet, City-road, who, the petition stated,ae
idank ; that
, and that his wife and
four children were in gieat distress, and would be thankful for
ebtee wnl th
received an accident by
hospital,
falling,ital off a
the smallest assistance. Several signatures and subscriptions
were subjoined, and the prisoners, on being questioned, said
that they had been employed by the poor man's wife to solicit
for more. A policeman was eispatched to the house in Mac-
clesfivld.street, when he ascertained that the whole story was
a fabrication, and the prisoners were taken to the station-house.
Frederick Breed a coal porter, stated that he had known the
prisoners some years, but he had not authorised them to collect

money on his account. He had been recently confined to his
bed, from infl immetion in the lungs, and a statement of his
situation was drawn up to excite charity, but it was cirenlated
exclusively amongst his fellow workmen. He had only one
child, and he was never in an hospital in his life.
Mr. BROUGHTON intimated to the prisoners that they had
incurred the liability of being commi to:I for three months,
with hard labour, to the House of Correction, but as they were
not known to the police he should mitigate the punishment to
a fortnight's imprisonment.
lhe prisoners were accordingly committed for 14 days.

UNION-HALL-(TI-IlS DAY.)
RIOT IN ST. GEORGE'S WORKGOUSE.—Two
fillows named Jones and Fitzgerald, were charged by Mr.
Stevens, the porter to the Workhouse, for creating a riot, and
robbing a pauper named William Berwick.
Mr. Stevens stated that the prisoners were admitted last
night as casual paupers, were provided with supper, after
which they were sent to the sleeping-apartment, where there
were about sixty more. He was sent for by seine of the men
about twelve o'clock, to come and put a stop to the disturbance,
which completely alarmed the house • on proceeding to the
ward where the casual paupers sleep, he discovered the prisoner
Fitzgerald kneeling on Berwick, and Jones was striking him,
ho immediately called in police constable, 43 M, with whose as-
sistance they quelled the riot, and took the prisoners into
custody.
William Berwick confirmed :his statement.
Mr. TRA ILL remarked that it was rather eareless of the Go-
vernors in not having some person to watch the casual paupers;
he should discharge Jones, but Fitzgerald he should send for
14 days.

THAMES POLICE -(THIS DAY.)
Three chimneysweeps, named Charles Stratford, Thomas
Evans, and John Lawrence, were placed at the bar before
Mr. Brodcrip, charged with stealing a pair of shoes from the
shop of Mrs. Shine, a widow, living in High-street, Poplar.
staatford and Evans had gone into the shop os Saturday
evening, under the pretence of buying a cap, and after looking
at several, declined to purchase and went away. They were
no sooner gone, however, than the shoes were missed, and, from
the position in which the men stood in the shop, they were
suspected. Information was given to the police, and they were
followed, when Evans was seen to show the shoes to Lawrence,
at the corner of a street, Stratford haring gone away. The
two were taken into custody, arid Stratford shortly afterwards
went to the station-hou e to inquire after his companions,
when he was detained. . _

Evans stated that he was the person who stole the slices, and
the other two were perfectly innocent. He had been "larking"
and lost his cap, and he went with Stratford to buy another,
when he took the shoes from the counter. _ _

..._..._ _
Mr. BALLANTINE said there could be no doubt, from the
testimony of the witnesses, that all three had a guilty know-
ledge of the theft, and he should, therefore, commit them all
fur trial.—The prisoners were then fully committed.

DREADFUL EXPLOSION.-(THIS

MORNING.)
EXTENSIVE LOSS OF LIFE.

This morning, about twenty minutes before twelve ()Walk,
a most extraordinary sensation was produced throughout Lam-
beth, in consequence of the explosion of the extensive fire-
work-manuractory of Messrs, D'Ernest, situakd in Doughty-
street, Lambeth-walk. The exptosion was attended with a
noise resembling a park of artillery, and was heard for miles
distant in every direction. The consternation that was occa-
sioned was beyond description. Vast numbers of persons were
seen running from all parts to the scene of destruction. Soon
after the first alarm a body of the L division of police re-
paired to the spot, but were unable to approach the building,
in which the fire was raging with terrible fury. A constant
tuccession of explosions taking place, from the immense quan-
sity of fireworks i.nd combustible materials which was kept on
the premises. Several engines shortly arrived, and played on
the burning mass. Fortunately the premises were detached
from other buildings, otherwise it is impossible to say to what
extent the calamity would have gone. We regret to say a
great loss of life has occurred upon the melancholy occasion,
as a number of men were employed when the explosion hap-
rened. It is, however, as yet impossible to say what is
the loss of human life ; the mutilated burnt remains
of two men were distinguished amongst the burning
mass, but no one dare venture near the spot, as it was
well known an immense quantity of powder was kept on the
premises. The proprietor resides in the Lambeth-road, near
Bethlehem Hospital. He is in a very extensive way of busi-
ness, and supplies most of the places of amusement. At half-
vast twelve o'clock, when the Reporter left, the fire was
raging with the utmost fury, and the firemen were actively en-
gaged in arresting its progress. It must be several hours before
it can be possibly ascertained what number of lives have been
sacrificed upon the occasion.