The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-15 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE-(THIS DAY.)

Alice Lou's, charged with robbing Lord Frankfort,
with whom she was living, of jewellery to a consider-
able amount, was this day brought up before Mr.
Long, for final examination.
Long before the usual hour, the Court was crowded
to excess. The prisoner did not appear in the least
anxious or concerned at her situtaion.

The former depositions were read over by the clerk,
and assented to by the witnesses, and this being the
whole of the evidence for the prosecution, the prisoner
was called upon for her defence, when she said, " All
1 have to say is, that Lord Frankfort gave me the
things produced in this Court, and he did so to induce
me to leave him."

Mr. Adolphus reserved his defence for another
Court, and as no witnesses were called for the de-
fence, the prisoner was committed for trial.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS,
FROM THE EVENING PAPES OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—The Standard of last night con-
tained the following piece of sufficiently alarm-
ing—though, we are happy to add, evidently
groundless and fictitious—intelligence
" With pain, but without hesitation, we lay be-
fore our readers the following extract from a hurried
letter written on the 27th of August, at'Bombay, by
Major Mcasiter, of the 28th Regiment
" Bombay, August 27, 1842.
• .

" The Colonel is going away in command of a
brigade. It therefore.' fall into the command of the
regiment. We take the field immediately. Most
disastrous news [have] arrived [from] the interior.
The 41st cut to pieces.
" [A ;reference to some private affairs follows.]
" Yours, &c., "JOHN MESSITER: "
The Standard, it is true, employ's its powers or
reasoning to show that the writer of the " hurried
letter" had been " misinformed ; and that his
melancholy statement is either al togeher ground-
less, or the gross exaggeration of some trifling
reverse." This, we take leave to say, so far from
justifying our too credulous Contemporary in
giving circulation through his columns to
an apocryphal and, as we think, wholly
Unfounded communication, is at once the
strongest imaginable condemnation of so utter
a perversion of the newspaper press. Had
our Contemporary, on returning the MS. to
the party by whom it was transmitted, assigned
his reasons for refusing to publish such a commu-
nication, he might have destroyed its claims to
credence in the estimation of the family of Major
Messiter, and prevented its publication. Or had
he found in some contemporary print—if, indeed,
any journal would have so far risked its reputa-
tion with the public, as to have given such an un-
supported *document insertion—then the Stan-
d(' 'Yrs argument, showing the improbability ofthe
statement having its origin in truth, would hive
been worthy of respect. It is no less the dutytity
than it is the interest of the public press, to pre. •
serve the public feeling from those alarms which.
credulity, ignorance, or cupidity may occasion-
ally excite, than it is to aid the public mind in
its endeavours to arrive at a right judgment upon
important ascertained facts. But that a journal
possessed of thoseapialities which form the bases
of pliblie confidence in matters pertaining to facts,
and such facts as involve the fate of an army and
tl (possible safety of au empire, should publish
f extract of "a hastily written letter,"
?•iving intelligence which must create most
distressing apprehensions in the minds of the fa-
mily connections of the regiment stated to have
causing scarcely lesspainful
been "cut to pieces;"
suspense throughout a wider circle, made up of
those whose husbands, sons, and brothers are in
the "interior," from which it is vaguely, but not
on that account less alarmingly, stated that
"most disastrous news [have] arrived"—while it
would produce general alarm, if not immedi-
ately met with a demonstration of its utter
destitution or truth—appears to us to be a course
so new, so strange, and so mischievously cruel,
that we only anticipate the justly-merited cen-
sure Of the introduction of the unfounded and
Absurd statement to the columns of the Standard,
~, 1
" we express a decided opinion that its
publication—even Contemporary
own sbowin,
en upon our Contempo .
do no rirood —vvas utterly uncalled for: it could
thuis r'eloa;kand might do much evil. The Times
cutati„g hos- PPon.the folly and mischief of cir-
intelligence on such subjects:—
" Rumours of
and however.stated,such disasters, however vaguely
such ready improbable in themselves, receive
painfelly excited as while the public mind is so
s to tr-esent, and occasion such
poignant distress
represented to be cut off,
pleasure in being enabled from
that we feel peculiar pleas'
the best informed sources, to contradict this painful
report."
Happily, in the present case, .
' ,
t " hastily-
written letter," ascribed to Mut
tains internal evidence which-
rej_tessitere r
mis-
chievous tendency of therostasstees to be
perfectly
renders
the
ineffectual. The letter pre
front Bombay, Aug. 27, an official letetewitten
r fro In
the highest authority in Bombay, dmed Aug
28, v.iting `'the latest news " front candah.
•
tnakes no allusion to the report of such ar,
entrenee; nor is there the slightest allusion
eVt'llto the rumour ofsuch an event in the India,,
journals. The most satisfactory evidence of the
is, however, derived from " the Major's"
s:at,./,,,„t. The writer represents himself
as tieing about to assume a command, in conse-
quence of t vents of which those front whom the
orders under which Le represented he was about
to act cotilil alone einanate, Were altogether
• igeor..nt 1

We also are favoured with a. communication :
not the oxtraet of
ai‘‘hurried letter," but taken
from one written n
v
information not merely
coolness, and. containing.
ev: servin of credit, but
of entire reliance. The d
letter from which we
give the following extract is from Captain
Wetlierall, of the 41st Regiment—which the
ASYetatiard's Correspondent represents as "cut to
pi,c-es"—who is in command of a detachment. of
his regiment at Bombay. The letter
.is dated
" Bombay, August 24," and is addressed to Mr.
Wynn Williams, of the Temple:—
" We are about to make an attack on Hyderabad

after the monsoon, with 5,000 men, under Sir C.
Napier. I shall have about 400 or 500 men of the
40th and 41st, I expect, under my. command. TLe
Ameers are possessed of immense wealth, and the
place, though strong for natives, cannot resist cannon
long, the walls being very high, but weakened by
being so much loop-holed. We expect to go from
this about the 10th of September."
We understand that the letter stated to have
been written by Major Messiter. is treated with
unmixed ridicule in all military circles.
STANDARD.—It must not be concealed that
the late arrangementt in the Government of Ca-
nada have caused considerable dissatisfaction in
this country, as well as among the British party in
the provinces more immediately concerned. This
dissatisfaction ought to surprise no one; but
before we condem Sir Charles Bagot for what
seems, prima facie, a violation of the rules of
common policy, and an outrage upon political
morality, let us fairly inquire whether he is a
voluntary agent. It is usaless and unjust to
say that the late Canada appointments are merely
cases of the miserable and ever-failing concilia-
tion policy, and to ask, as some of our friends
have asked, what would be thought of removing
Sir Frederick Pollock to make room for Mr.
Feargus O'Connor, in the hope of giving satis-
faction to tne Chartists ? There is no parallelism
'in the respective conditions of Canada and
England. If unhappily there were—if; un-
happily for us, the division of the Conser-
vative party were so violent, or the strength
of the Radical party so formidable, as to give
to the latter an ascendancy in Parliament, why
we might even expect to see Mr. Feargus O'Con-
nor or any other of their favourites usnrping the
office of the first law officer of the Crown. The
Constitution given by the Whig-Radical Go-
vernment to the Canadas has, in fact, given to
the legislative body the same complete control
over the Government possessed •by the House
of Commons in this country ; and it was
the purpose of the Whig-Radical Minis-
ters to produce this effect, for they
avowedly laboured to establish what is
called " a responsible Government" in the colo-
nies—that is, a Government not responsible to
England, but responsible to the local Legisla-
ture. This is a new experiment, and it is a
fearful one. An Executive responsible only to
a local authority, will, of course, chiefly con-
sult local interests, or what are fbr the time
thought to be local interest ; and though
to all right-thinkin men the great inte-
rests of all parte of the British empire

must remain for ever the same, occasions
will inevitably arise when local interests shall be
thoeglit repugnant to the general interests of the
empire, and on such occasions the local Oovern-
ment must, according to the new Whig-Radical
constitution, take part against the country
from which it derives its authority. The good
sense of the colonists will, we •trust, cause
such occasions to be rare ; but that at some time
or other they will arise seems to be a certainty;
indeed, the present circumstances of the
colony seems to present an exaggerated instance
of this monstrous anomaly; but we willingly
assign those circumstances to the influence
of late events, rnd to the effect of power
in inexperienced hands. The loyal people of
Canada will probably learn to moderate their
opinions, and to reconcile minor" differences,
when they find that the effect of continued irri-
tation and discord is to force upon the Govern-
ment the necessity of placing in the highest
offices of the State persons lately proclaimed as
enemies to the empire.