The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-06 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

A man named George Rose was brought up on a
warrant, charged with the double offence of cruelty
to an animal, and threatening to assault henry
Weston, Esq., one of the County Magistrates, when
he interfered to prevent him.
Mr. Weston stated, that on Friday last, as he was
passing through Clapham in his carriage, he ob-
served a crowd of persons assembled on the Common
near the road side, and the defendant in the centre
in the act of breaking a young colt. The cruel
manner in which this was effected drew his parti-
cular attention ; for although the animal cantered and
galloped round the ring without requiring the use
of the whip, the defendant lashed it in the most fu-
rious way, and to such a degree as to leave marks
and weals on its sides from the flogging. Mr. Wes-
ton, conceiving that great and unnecessary violence
was used in breaking in so young a horse, alighted
from his carriage, and going across to the defendant
told him that he was not justified in treating the
animal with such cruelty, and desired him to desist.
The moment, however, he spoke, the defendant be-
came exceedingly abusive, saying he should do as he
pleased, and when Mr. Weston intimated that he
was a Magistrate, and that he should have him taken
into custody if he persevered in flogging an animal
to such an extremity when there was no occasion,
the defendant became still mole insolent, and filially
placing himself in a boxing attitude, threatened to
punch Mr. Weston's eye, and in fact tried every
means in his power to urge that gentleman to a en-
gage in a pugilistic contest with him. Mr. Weston
finding it was quite useless to argue with a man of
the defendant's description, satisfied himself with
procuring his address, and adopted the expedient of
having him punished for both offences at the same
time,—namely, for cruelty to the colt, and also for
threatening to assault him.

The defendant, in answer to the first charge,
declared that he was compelled to use the whip in
the way represented by Mr. Weston, the horse he
was breaking in being of a very vicious nature.
Mr. Weston reiterated his former declaration, that
the animal performed the round of the ring without
exhibiting any viciousness, and that the defendant
kept flogging it merely for flogging sake.
With respect to the charge of threatening to as-
sault Mr. Weston, and placing himself in a fighting
position for that purpose, the defendant said that
he was not aware of the rank of that gentleman
at the time, and concluding that he was not a con-
stable, and that none hut a constable had a right to
interfere with him, he had acted in a manner that
he was now sorry for.
The Magistrates, Mr. CHAMBERS and Mr. HoNE,
inflicted a fine on the defendant of 40s. for each
distinct offence with which he was charged. Mr.
Weston handed his portion of the penalty orer to
the poor box of this oflice, from which several dis-
tressed objects are relieved in the course of the year.
William Mann, the proprietor of an intermediate
beer shop in Blackfriars-road was summoned for
pursuing his worldly calling on the Sabbath.
Mark the witness, stated, that on Sunday, dur-
ing the hours of divine service, he saw several per-
sons standing under a pent-house, erected in front
of the defendant's shop, and also observed that one
man in the crowd was served with beer out of the
window, which he drank at the time.

Mr. CHAMBERS said, that the proprietors of inter-
mediate beer shops were not justified in keeping
their shops open or serving customers at any time
during the Sabbath. They were not in the situa-
tion of licensed victuallers, who had the privilege,
owing► to their being licensed persons, to open their
houses during the intervals of service, and after it
Waft over.

The defendant said, that on the day in question
he did not serve any person with beer; adding, that
he gave his servants strict orders not to sell a
thimble-full of the " intermediate" at any time dur-
ing Sundays. He then called his man, and having
questioned him on the subject, the latter admitted
that he had served a ram, ‘vho was occasionally em-
ployed on the premises, with half a pint of " inter-
mediate" on the day in question, but. that he made
no charge for it.
Mr. CHAMBERS—That does not matter. It has
been sworn that the beer was served at the time
specified, and I shall inflict the tine. Defendant—
Harris has sworn falsely. It's hard that I should
be convicted on the oath of such a man.
Mr. Cilamnms—Your own witness has acknow-
ledged that he served a man with beer, and it is
therefore equally unjust that you charge Harris with
having peijured himself. You would not like, added
the Magistrate, for any person to accuse you of per-
jury ? Defendant—l keep two intermediate beer
shops, and I defy .any person to prove that Lever
served a customer on Sundays. I can bring, if it.
is necessary, a hundred persons forward to disprove
that which is alleged against me. . . . •
Mr. 0013E11s—it is evident from your view of,

HUNGARIAN UNIVERSITIES.--111 the
Royal Academy of Presburgh there are 433 students, viz
236 of philosophy, and 197 of law; added to which there
are in the Archiepiscopal Lyceum of Turnau 7S students
of philosophy, and in the Episcopal L)centn of Waitzen
60. At the Royal University of Pest!' there have been,
during the present year, 1,710 students, viz. 73 of theo-
logy, 581 of law, 401 of inediclne, and 609 of philoso-
phical science. Of this number 1,213 are Roman Catho-
lics, 112 Greeks, 63 Protestants of the Augsburg con-
fession, 140 Rjjorms of the .s;tviss confession, 'arid 15:3
Jews.

Lieut,Colonel HopcsoN, of the 42d
'rent of Bengal Native Infantry, returned last week in
perfect health to his native place, Bishop Auckland, after
an absence of 32 years, on which c,ccio.ion several merry
peals were rung on the church hells. Daring his hug so-
journ in the East Indies, Lieut.-Col. 11. discovered the
source of the Ganges in the Himalaya Mountains, fin•
which, as well as for various other important services, he
was appointed Surveyor-General of India.

LEAMINGTON SPA, OCT. 3.—We have had
a considerable accession of company since our last, and the
arrivals become daily more numerous as the commence-
ment of the Musical Festival at Birmingham approaches.
The Gentlemen cf the Hunt are also congregating here,
and in another week or two we expect to have an un-
usually brilliant assemblage of genuine Nimrods, who will
this year make Leamington their head-quarters.

At one of the churches in the ciiy of Wor-
cester, on Sunday, after the banns of matrimony between
two persons had been published a third time, a young
man rose, and, with " ashy cheek and quivering lip,"
said, "I forbid the banns." He was in consequence di-
rected to attend in the vestry after the service. He ac-
cordingly attended at the time and place appointed, and
stated that his reason for forbidding the banns was, that
the lady, who was a widow, had, three months before,
engaged to marry him! ft was explained to him, that,
in the eye of the law ecclesiastical, the reason stated was
no "cause or just impediment," but that the common
law would afford him its benign assistance in punishing
the " viduate dame," who seems to have forgotten the
salutary advice of the old song—" Better be off with the
old love before you are on with the new."

ConK FAIR.—The .P.,..utunmal Fair was held
yesterday; it exhibited a convincing proof of the scar-
city of money, from the few purchas,s made either for
the domestic or English Market, as we!! as of the caution
observed by the trade, in the expectation of a material tle.
cline in price, consequent upon the low terms at which
the contracts for the approaching season have been taken.
The show of fat cattle was unusually trifling—the holders
looked for prices much beyond what intending purchasers
offered, and scarcely a sale was made for the Cork Market
—none for the English. Mild, cows, always in request
by the Liberty dairymen, brought good prices, varying
from 6/. to 101. according to engagements. Of Store
cattle, the supply was large, but there were little or no
bargains made in them. Fat Pigs sold freely for the
Bristol Ma ket, rating about 52Ss, per cwt.—Store-pigs
from 10s. to 201. each. The Sheep offered, were gene-
rally of inferior description. Horses, although for sale in
numbers, did not meet purchasers—the few sold were of
tie working class. Altogether, this fair is reported as
one of the most gloomy experienced till• several years.—
Cork Mercantile Chronicle of Friday.

The Noble Proprietor of the borough of New-
ark is just now playing off a freak of insolent tyranny
among his tenants, which, if we mistake not, will excite
one universal feeling of disgust throughout the nation. It
-is well known that at the last election for that borough,
the Duke of Nnwc.tsTrx. put forward our townsman, Mr.
MICHAEL SADLER, as his nominee fur the representation
of the place; and that a large body of tha electors—some,
no doubt, influenced by an approbation of that gentleman's
principles, others by a fear (proved, by the event, to be
but too well founded) of the vengeance a their landlord,
the Duke—returned Mr. SADLER by a considerable majo-
rity over his opponent, Mr. Scijeant WILDE. The latter
candidate, however, who had nothing but his own high
talents and independent principles to recommend him, ob-
tained a number of votes so large and respectable as to
render his defeat, under the circumstances of the contest,
at least as honourable as his rival's triumph. The opposi-
tion which his Grace of NEWCASTLE then experienced seems
to have been so much wormwood to his ducal stomach ;
and, in order to punish his refractory tenants for daring to
vote according to their own tuiderstanding,s and con-
sciences, he has given more than two hundred of them
notice to quit their houses at. Lady-day next. Let any
roan fairly consider what must be the sum of absolute mi
sery produced by the expulsion of two hundred families
from their homes, and he will then be able to appreciate
as it deserves the cruelty of this most tyrannical conduct.
Many of the persons included in this sentence of banish-
ment must be tradesmen, who have been labouring with
different degrees of success, to establish connexions in
Newark, by means of which themselves and their children
might obtain their daily bread ; and to expel persons of
this class from their shops and houses at half a year's no-
tice, especially in times like these, must be to drive many
of them to insolvency and hopeless ruin. Many, too,
have been expending various sums of money upon the im-
provement of the property they held, never dreaming that
they would be liable, for no offence upon earth but the
honest discharge of a British Elector's ditty, to such a
sudden and rude expulsion. Cases like these now men-
tioned are no doubt nunicrous; and it is plain that
they must involve an enormous aggregate of human suffer-
ing. We say nothing of tl:e inconvenience and pain
which every individual included in this wholesale pro.
scription cannot but feel at being called upnn to quit that
which has been a home, and to b:eak up the connections
and attachments formed there; because these evils, how-
ever considerable in themselves, are insignificant in com-
parison with the heavier calamities to which we have been
alluding,,Leeds Mercury;