The Sun.
London, England, 1829-06-26 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

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one eclipsed the laborious
trifling of ten preceding years, and will redeem
to the most distant ages whatever
indolence,
timidity, or relaxation of spirit, may have follow-
ed it, or been produced by it, in both Houses of
Parliament, during the remainder of the season.
If we may judge, however, from the statement
of their intentions as furnished by honourable
members themselves, the ensuing season bids fair
to be productive of a kind of interest, undoubt-
edly not so intense or concentrated as that which
engrossed all minds for the first four months of
1829, but if in a degree less animated, by far
more general and varied. Among the 34 no-
tices in this catalogue, there are some of motions
or bills, the debates on which will tend to revive
the interrupted conflict between liberal and Tory
sessionro
doctrines, the parties maintaining which appear
to have been strangely intermixed and confound-
ed by the extraordinary circumstance of an Ad-
ministration having wisdom enough to disarm its
most enlightened opponents of their enmity, and
to provoke that of its own unenlightened and
hitherto servile followers. We find that Mr. N.
Calvert and Mr. Tennyson are both to make
war, but each in his own manner, upon the bribery
and corruption of East Retford ; that the latter
gentleman is to renew his motion for transferring
the representation of East Retford to the great
and populous town of Birmingham ; that Lord
John Russell is to move the gift of representa-
tion to the above-mentioned seat of industry and
intelligence, as well as to Manchester and Leeds ;
and that Lord Blandford is somewhat curiously
to join the phalanx of aristocratic radicals, by
making his motion for reform. Another Mem.
ber is to bring in a Bill for regulating the repre-
sentation of boroughs which have only ten elec-
tors. It is to be inferred from such facts as these,
that a reform of the representation, whether ex-
tensive or partial, has become a subject familiar
to the minds of men in the upper classes of so-
ciety; and a great step is gained for the cause of
liberty, when questions of high importance,
affecting popular rights, and involving principles,
are introduced to the legislature by men of oppo-
site parties ; and thus placed in points of view so
ingeniously contrasted, that none of their fea-
tures, bearings, or relations, can escape the ordeal
of Parliamentary and searching discussion. Our
sentiments on the case of East Retford are al-
ready known. A corrupt borough ought to
be disfranchised : and its power of election
once withdrawn, if the House of Com-
mons be not too numerous, ought to vest in
some other constituent body. The question is,
shall a small county, like Nottingham, have twice
as many representatives as Lancashire ; or an
immense, commercial, affluent, and intelligent
community like that of Birmingham, have none
to speak its wishes in Parliament ; while Old
Sarum, which has neither magnitude, nor trade,
nor wealth, nor knowledge, seeing that it has no
inhabitants at all, shall send two Members to
the House of Commons ? We have long thought
that the landed interest is more than duly power-
ful in this realm : the Corn Laws and Game
Laws prove the tact beyond dispute. The men
of real estate are, of course, not more selfish than
their neighbours; but their selfishness is more
calamitous to the country, because its dictates
are less liable to successful opposition. It &!eins
quite monstrous that such places as Leeds,
Manchester,_ anti Sheffield, should be left to the
chance patronage, the. elemosynary services, of
representatives whose own parliamentary trust ,is
a sinecure—or of others, viz. the. Members for
Lancashire and 'Yorkshire, who are already o'ver-.
whelmed with the affairs of those, vast counties..
We know not why any Minister should set liis
face against such a business-like reform as this..
On the other hand, it affords us pleasure to see
that Lord John Russell intends to enforce the
wisdom of representing that species of property
which is the fruit and evidence of activity, in-
tegrity, and commercial or scientific knowledge.
We may take another opportunity of adverting
to some other subjects contained in these notices
of future deliberation.—Times.

Fame, like greatness, is acquired in various
ways. Dr. Free, of Sutton, in Bedfordshire,
has his fame " thrust upon him ;" for though it
results from his actions, we suspect he would he
content to enjoy the pleasure of an irregular
course of life without the reputation. He is
likely, even, to be celebrated in history ; for the
difficulty which has occurred in bringing this
man to punishment through the forms of the
Ecclesiastical Courts, will perhaps occasion their
reform. The Earl of Hardwicke has taken the
matter up, and though his labours be suspended
by the close of the session, his Lordship has
given notice, that upon the presentment of a pe-
tition in the next Session by Mr. Montague
Burgoyne,—the promoter, as the ecclesiastical
expression is, in the present case,—some plan
• will be proposed for consigning to the Bishops,
or some other proper authority, " the power of re-
moving such profligate and unprincipled clergymen
as Dr. Free, the rector of Sutton, from their livings."
Probably the Bishops may not wish for the
power ; and we should be desirous, more espe-
cially in cases where property is concerned, that
the proceeding should be as much as possible
assimilated to the common law of England, and
that something of a jury, even it be composed
of persons of the same profession as the accused,
be instituted for his trial. We have no doubt
that a reform (absit verbo invidia) is wanting
butfee
Parliament
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This
Free is a terrible fellow, indeed. Where did he
come from him ? Where was he educated ?
And, unhappy man ? what will be his end.—
, Rid.

A great deal of solicitude is manifested in
certain quarters, to convey an impression that the
prorogation of Parliament will afford an oppor-
tunity for carrying into immediate operation
various measures of retrenchment, from v.hich
the most beneficial results are confidently anti-
cipated. It is asserted that in almost every
branch of the internal Administration reduc-
tions will be effected, that these reductions will
be proceeded with in the most impartial and un-
sparing manner, and that in Ireland—that inve-
terate Augman stable—the augmentation of revo,
nue by an unproved mode of collection, and the
diminution of expellee by the of all
useless mouths, will be upon a scale, and to an
extent, that the most sanguine could scarcely
have anticipated. Various branches of the pub-
lic establishments are mentioned, in which
these beneficial reforms are forthwith to be
adopted ; but there is nose on which greater stress
is laid than the Post-office Department in Ireland.
It will at once be perceived, that from the nature
of the duty performed, and the costly but perish-
able machinery employed, the Post Office Re-
venue must, of necessity, be collected at a greater

expence than that of any other department ; even
in England, where the completeness of the esta-
blishment is pretty generally admitted, the ex-
penditure is very great ; but a recent inquiry in
Ireland goes to establish the very startling fact,
that the cost of the Post-office, compared with
its returns in the shape of net revenue, exceeds
the English in the proportion (if we are not mis-
informed) of no less than 35 per cent. If this be
true, and we have no reason to doubt the statement,
there must be room for reduction with a vengeance.
We have been led into these observations, from

knowing that the common topic for the last few
days, with persons who would be thought to
enjoy the confidence, and express the sentiments
of the Ministers at the head of the various

Departments, has been the advantage that must
infallibly result from the determination to ex-
ercise a real unaffected spirit of economy at
home, combined with a foreign policy, vigorous,
but essentially pacific. Whenever these very
desirable improvements shall have been carried
into effect ; when the bona in posse shall have
become bona in esse ; we shall feel no reluctance
to acknowledge the fact, but until then, we must
suspend our congratulations—in such cases we
can take nothing upon trust.—Morning Citron.
We remember reading in a very sprightly
article in the Edinburgh Review, that all who
dealt in commodities of which the defects could
not be at once discovered by the buyer, were
greatly given to cheat—and the writer observed,
in illustration, that a Bishop, in selling you a
horse, would be sure to cheat you. We have
taken from a Dublin paper, an account of a
fresh proceeding in the case between the Bishop
of Kihnore and Lord Plunkett, about the sale of
a pair of horses. Far be it from me to insinuate
that the Chief Justice of the Irish Court of
Common Pleas has been done by the Bishop ;
but we certainly think that he ought to have had
no dealing with him. It appears, indeed, from
the evidence of Lord Plunkett's clerical son, that
though he had but a low opinion of the prin-
ciples of Dycer, the horse-dealer, he still pre-
ferred to buy from him rather than the Bishop.
Lord Plunkett has evidently been outma-
noeuvred. We question whether Lord Plunkett
would in any case obtain a verdict from a Dub-
lin Jury, the Protestants of that capital being in
general much better partizans than practical
moralists, and bearing a most inveterate grudge
towards his Lordship. In this case they found
in opposition to the charge of Baron Smith.
•The following letter to the Bishop is deemed
the pivot on which the whole case turns :
" MY LoRD—I have sold your Lordship's horses
to Lord Plunkett for two hundred pounds, if sound
leariq, your Lordship's yard. Please deliver them
to him on my order, and I shall send your Lordship
the amount, or lodge it in any house in Dublin
which you may point out. The man shall leave
i
town to-morrow morning, be with you n the even-
ing, so as to start early next day.
" I am, my Lord, your obedient servant,
" EDWARD DYCER."

lteferriag to the letter, Baron Smith in his
charge observed:—
" But I come now (continued the Baron) to what
strikes me as being, on this question of warranty,
the most important item in the proofs. I mean
Dycer's letter to the Bishop, dared, I believe, the
12th July, and what followed on it. As to how
this letter should be read, with reference to the
ilunctuation, it is the less material to inquire; be-
cause, point it one way or the other, the meaning is
the same. He thereby either announces, that Lord
Plunkett will give two hundred pounds for the horses,
if sound, leaving the Bishop's yard, and desires him
please to send them, &c. or which is substantially
the same thing, he announces that 200/. will be
given, and desires the Bishop to please to send
them, if sound, leaping his yard. Hitherto we have
znly the act of Dycer, in substance, announcing
that 200/. will be given, if the horses be sound,
leaving the Bishop's yard; and expressly desiring
them to be Rent accordingly if sound; impliedly de-
'sired them not to be sent if unsound. But when the
Bishop acts upon this communication—when he does
send the horses—does he not adopt the conditions
'mid stipulations in the letter, and make it, and what is
done upon it, his own act ? It was open to him to
have acted atlaerwise; and to have protested against
entering into any engagement on the subject of the
holes' soundness, He might have written in reply
that he %vita not aware of any unsoundness; but
that upon this point he would not pledge himself;
and that, therefore, he would not send the horses.
'That the purchaser, or some person on his behalf,
might some down and inspect the horses, and judge
of their soundness for himself; and if he thought
them sound, might have them for 200/. If an alle-
gation is made in the hearing of a party, and he does
Pot rontradict it, he is, in many cases, considered to
have admitted it ; and to stand in the same situa-
tion as if the allegation had come from himself. I
:9ply the principle to the Bishop's proceeding upon
this letter ; but I tl:4Os the present case a stronger
cue than the analagous one I have put."
Ilowever the matter may end, we confess that
the Bishop appears to us quite qualified to stand
.his ground in a horse-market against the whole
Twelve Judges, any day in the year. So much
for the Church and the Law.—lbid.

The Duke of Wellington and Mr. Peel, i
would seem, are somewhat at variance in their
opinions as to the present constitution and
practice of some of our Ecclesiastical Courts ;
in which it would appear, from the long-pending
case of Dr. Free, that a gauntlet of appeal may
be run, ufficient to wear out the purse and the
patience, not to say the life, of an ordinary man.
It not unfrequently happens that men are most
ready to applaud or condemn that which they
know the least about. Judging by this rule, it
was but the other day that Mr. Peel was loud
hi his praise of these Courts ; and, on occasion
6; a. pill for regulating the fees taken in some of
them, he rejoiced that it contained no inroad
upon or aiCetztion in their practice. Not so the
Duke of Wellington. In reply to Lord Hard-
wicke, on the last day of the Session, his Grace
is represented to have expressed himself as
aware of the delay, expense, and inconvenience
attendant upon the practice of these Courts at
present, and ready to lend his assistance in
remedying the evil. We leave the Duke and
Mr. Peel to settle their discrepancy of opinion.
The latter, we suspect, has learnt by this
time some points in the doctrine of con:-
formity, and that in a military code the
chief feature is to ":obey," We do not
despair, therefore, of seeing the rraw3qr,es of
the Courts quickened and reformed from with-
out, .unieGs those who have the charge of them
have the good sense to see the necessity, 21i4
rethrw themselves. in cases of alleged miscon-
duct of tin? Clergy, as in that of Dr. Free, it is,
above all, desfra!de that the procccdings should
be quick and certain:: and, though we 5:;.;3 not
very fond of the increase of summary powers,
we are very much inclined to think tiL-i! the
Bishops should have a power over the sacerdotal •
and moral conduct of their Clergy, which would
render all appeal to other jurisdictions unneces-
sary. Indeed we were almost inclined to say
that we hardly know what a Bishop is good for
if' it is not to inspect, to regulate, ancontrol,
the conduct of the subordinate Clergy. At any
rate, that matters of' this sort can be carried on

from Court to Court, and from year, is an evil
which, we suppose, none but Proctors and Doc-
tors can attempt to advocate. It makes justice
a mockery ; and ecclesiastical justice (that
which, from its connection with religion, ought
to be the purest) the very worst of all.-21forn-
ing Herald.
We have frequently remarked upon the incon-
sistency, not to say indecency, of the characters
of Judge and Advocate being united in the same
person. To say nothing of the weight which it
takes away from the respect and reverence which
ought to attach to the judicial office, it in fact
poisons justice at the fountain head ; for how can
that be pure which is not impartial ; and how
can that be impartial which is swayed or liable to
be swayed, by being, or having been, the paid
agent of the person on whose fate the Judge is
to adjudicate? Still more objectionable is the
mode in which at least nine-tenths of the crimi-

nal Judges in the kingdom are appointed : we
mean the various Recorders, Chairmen of Ses-
sions, &c. The Crown is considered by the
Constitution the fountain of justice and mercy,
and the delegation of those powers is one of the
most important exercises of the prerogative. et
will it be believed that in the metropolis the
Crown has nothing to do with the Judges who
preside over the lives and deaths of two-thirds of
the criminals, or of the same or a greater pro-
portion of those who are tried for minor
offences throughout the kingdom ? Can
any thing, for instance, be so objec-
tionable as that the Aldermen of London
should possess the power of appointing the
Judges of the land, unless it be that those
sapient personages, the Middlesex and West-
minster Justices, should have the power to select
out of their own body Judges possessing nearly
similar powers ? No reform is more wanting in
the criminal law than this—that the judicial
office should every where, in every instance, ema-
nate from the Crown, which, through its respon-
sible advisers, should be held answerable to the
nation for the fitness of every one appointed to
preside in the seat of judgment. Who can go
into our Criminal Courts and not observe the
want of this controlling influence ? Who can
witness, as lie must do, the incapacity, the bear-
garden, and undignified familiarity, which pre-
vail in too many of these Courts, and not say
" is this the way in which the King of England
ought to be represented or, "is this the way
in which British justice ought to be adminis-
tered ?'' The late expose of the City accounts
throws some light upon these matters—a light
which we hope will not be lost 'Tom those
whose duty it is to uphold the just rights and
privileges, the honour and dignity, of the Crown,
as the best safeguard to the happiness and
liberty of the people.—lbid.
It cannot have escaped the observation of
those who pay any attention to the movements
of the Daily Press, that there is a portion of it
which devotes itself to the task of vilifying and

degrading the Church of England, and assailing
the reputation of such of its Ministers as are
most distinguished for their learning, piety, and
zeal. Such being the objects systematically
kept in view, we cannot be surprised that when-
ever a dispute arises between a layman and an
ecclesiastic, the latter, without much inquiry or
deliberation, should be pronounced to be in the
wrong ; or that whenever any difference occurs
between one of the lower orders of the Clergy
and his Canonical Superior, the right should,
without any hesitation or variety in these deci-
cisions, be adjudged to the former. It is to be
lamented, for the sake of the Church, that any

instance of the latter• kind should be brought
under the review of the public. Whichever
party may be right, i t is obvious that the cause
of religion must suffer from such exposures ;
and as a general rule, therefore, we think we
are warranted in saying that the prima facie
presumption is against the party appealing di-
rectly to the public ; that he may fairly be sus-
pected of preferring his private views, his indi-
vividual opinions, or his personal interests, to
the general cause of religion ; and that
he can make no pretensions to that cool-
ness and sobriety of judgment which are
necessary to qualify a man to judge
righteously in a matter that concerns himself. A
remarkable illustration of this doctrine is pre-
se►rted to us in a recent case, which, during the

last few days, has engaged the attention Of se-
veral of our contemporaries. The case to which
we allude is that of the incumbent of the parish
of Bardney, in the diocese of Lincoln, who has
thought proper to lay before the public a pam-
phlet, containing the correspondence between
himself and his Diocesan, and has procured
moreover the parliamentary assistance of Mr.
Flume, in order to give greater publicity to his
complaints. That a certain part of our contem-
poraries should have warmly espoused his cause
can excite no surprise ; for to be a discontented
Clergyman, an accusing pamphleteer, and a par-
liamentary client of Mr. Hume, are recommenda-
tions which they could not be expected to resist.
The Right Rev. Prelate, believing that the po-
pulation and other circumstances of the parish of
Bardney require the performance of two services
on Sundays, issued, as it was his duty, an in-
junction to that effect. This is in truth the
whole matter of complaint ; and what is singular
in the case is, that the judgment of the Bishop,
with regard to the spiritual wants of the
parish, is not impugned, The complainant
only says that he is compelled, in copse,
quence of this order, to relinquish the curacy
of a neighbouring parish, the stipend of which
came conveniently in aid of the inadequate in-
come of the hying; the latter being only 601. a
year ; that he cannot well afford to make this
sacrifice, as he has thirteen children ; and that
there are many other parishes in the diocese, the
population of which is greater than that of
Bardney, and in which the Bishop has not ex-
ercised his authority to enforce the performance
of two services. The question then, upon the
showing even of the Rev. Gentleman, comes
simply to this:—Ought the interests and worldly
comforts of the incumbent and his family, or
the interests of religion in the parish, when these
two interests are ;nc,umpatible, to be preferred ?
The Prelate, who hasp() iicite4,4 in the matter,
ii,nd who is not accused even of being actuated
by any feelings of personal favour or dislike, de-
cides, ail any man free from passion or prejudice
must decide, that the latter ought to be pre-
ferred. The fnetimbent thinks, that in his own
particular case—which we ailrfilt to be one cal-
culated to try a man's philosophy—the forhlcr
sailed to the preference. All this is natural
enough ; chiefly to be lamented is, that
he Reverend Incumbent ;;hould not have had so
judgment as t:, restrain
much fliffidenee in his own
him from going to press. As to the complaint
that the rule laid doWn by this )3ishop is not ap-
plied to all other parishes similarly 5...-*Rted, • it
has reeeiyea a detailed and satisfactorygontradle-
tion, and is therefore no farther deserving of
notice than as it implies the CODSCIOUSTIeSIi 9f the

complainant himself that the rule is a good one.
The Clergyman who feels himself to be so hardly
dealt by, turns out, however, to be in the posses-
session of another living of the value of 4501. a
year, besides that of Bardney—a fact to which
he has the indiscretion or the want of candour to
refrain from any allusion whatever in his pamph-
let. He and his advocates say that this is a
nominal and not in any degree whatever a bene-
ficial possession ; but neither he nor they conde-
scend to offer any explanation of the circum-
stances. We cannot but think that a Clergyman
who has appealed to the compassion of his Dio-
cesan to induce the latter to swerve from what he
admits to be the strict line of his duty, and who
on meeting with a refusal gives vent to his mis-
placed indignation in print, ougheat least to have
been ready and willing to reconcile, by the fullest
explanations, his former allegation of poverty
with a fact apparently so inconsistent with it. if
he feel, however, an insuperable repugnance to
this explanation, then we can only say that in ap-
pealing to the public at all he committed a double
indiscretion.— Morning Post.
In the sentiments which were expressed on
Wednesday last by Mr. Otway Cave, respecting,
the conduct of Parliament during the last Ses-
sion, there is no one who has paid the slightest
attention to its proceedings who will not heartily
concur. One measure, and only one of the
least importance as respects the welfare of the
country—the Catholic Relief Bill—has re-
ceived the attention and sanction of the Legis-
lature; but great undoubtedly and difficult as
that victory was, and most beneficial, as we

trust it will prove, to the general tranquillity,
prosperity, and union of the country, we cannot,
nevertheless, but express our regret that it alone
should have been deemed of sufficient import-
ance to have taken place, as well as precedence,
of every other. Emancipation was desirable for
Ireland, because it offered a hope at least, of re-
moving one great cause of grievance ; but it was
neither all that was required to remedy the
miserable condition of that unhappy country,
nor even a drop in the bucket when consi-
dered as the only measure on which Parliament
thought proper to bestow its attention for the
general benefit of the country. Yet on this one
measure was half the time of the Session wasted ;
and although the fight was kept up with some
spirit while it remained a question, no sooner
had it been settled, than, as if exhausted by a
mighty effort, or satisfied with the contempla-
tion of the great good which they had achieved,
both Houses relapsed into a state of lethargy,
and the Members on the Opposition and Mini-
sterial benches could only rouse themselves into
sufficient activity to attempt an occasional gam-
bol in the field of mutual compliment and con-
gratulation ! Every proposition, in fact, from
an independent Member, either for reform in
the law, or an improvement of the state of the
country, has either been dismissed with a deter-
mination not to examine it, or put off until next
Session. The Chancery Bill has been deferred
—the Police Regulation Bill passed in a most
ineffective and incomplete state—a revision of
the Corn Laws negatived by a large majority—a
House denied to an Inquiry into the State of the
Country—the Currency declared to be no sub-
ject for discussion, and, in fine, every thing which
contained a proposal for reform quashed or de-
ferred—yet the suitors in Chancery can but ill
afford to wait for a reform of the nauseous Court

until another year—the police is extremely in-
effective, and crime greatly on the increase—one
of the greatest evils of the country is the op-
pressive Corn Law tax—the state of the coun-
try never called so loudly for calm inquiry and
deliberate consideration, or the curtailment of

the currency more loudly on the Legislature
to retrace its steps ! All, however, has been
passed over in silence, and the coun-
try, for any thing that the " collective
wisdom" has done for it, been left to
struggle with its condition as it best can. The
renewal of the Finance Committee during the

last Session was promised ; but the promise has
not been kept, nor the reforms which it pointed
out carried into effect. The assessed taxes
are to be continued, nor is there the slightest
hope held out either of further retrenchment
being effected in the public expenditure, or of
any diminution of taxes taking place in the
course of the next Session of Parliament

All these evils might, however, be remedied,
or, at least, there would be some hope of
their being remedied, if we had but an
honest and independent Opposition ; but there
is actually nothing in the shape of an
honest otlposition in existence—the distmc- •
tions of 'Whig and Tory have all but vanished—
the great barrier which separated the leading
political parties in the country been either over-
turned or disregarded--and instead of them we
now only witness a mutual eagerness at .conctha-
tion, which is any thing but beneficial to the
true interests of the country. Mr. Hume, Mr.
Harvey, Mr. 0. Cave, and those who generally
vote with them, are noble exceptions from this
general censure ; but they form but a very small
party, and rather serve to warn the country of
what is doing, or not done, than to prevent the one
or effect the accomplishment of the other. The
spirit of Whiggism appears, in fact, to have to-
tally fled ; and a hankering after place, and a
coquetting with those who are in possession, of
it, to have superseded the unwearied care of the
public interests, and the honest endeavour to

better the condition, and uphold the liberties,
of the people, for which Whiggism, in the days
of Fox and Whitbread was justly renowned.
The only hope of the country is therefore in the
spirit Of its people ; and we trust that they will
not be slow in evincing, when another Session
of Parliament comes round, how sadly their in-
terests have been neglected and their condition
reckoned as " nought."—Morning Advertiser.

It may not lie generally known that the Com-
mander-il-Chief of his Majesty's Fleet in the Mediter.
ranean is, for the time being, a Knight Grand Cross of the
Order of St. Michael and St. George.

ATTEMPT AT SUlClDE.—Yesterday at one
o'clock, a gentleman named LENNART), 93 years of age,
who wc.,-s formerly Chief Justice of Bermuda, made a des-
perate attempt to destroy himself, at his house, No. 53,
Judd-street, Brunswicksquare. The unfortunate gentle-
man had retired to his bed-room for a short time, when the
report of a pistol was heard, and his daughters, who reside
with him, rail up stairs, and found him extended on the
floor, bleeding. very much from his right hand and arm,
and with a dreadftil wound in the ja-,,, close to the mouth.
It appeared that Mr. /...‘11t) had 'plaeed a pistol in his
i mouth, and that in discharging, the weapon burst, and hid
shattered his hand and arm, and wounded his jaw. The
surgeons were unable to ascertain whether a ball had en-
tered the head or not in the then state of the old gentle-
man, art.(' 1,.e was put to bed, and the best remedies in such
a case adtilinlstereri. 'Tie 17c,s !ensible at first, but soon
sank into a kind of stupor, and the medical men Prorrouuced
his recovery hopeless. Ns cause that we 'could 'learn cats
.be assigng4 .;ow ;lre rash act, except the imbecility of old
age. Mr. LENNARp enjoye4 a peT.7eir of 1,000/. a.year,
besides his private properly, , • •

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.

Yesterday, Jeremiah Fairer, a young fellow about
24 years of age, was charged before Mr. MlNstium.,
with a burglary at the house of a schoolmaster,
named Lawrence, who resides at Hampstead.
It appeared that on the night of the 27th of May,
the prosecutor's premises adjoing his dwelling-house
were forced open, and a great quantity of clothing
belonging to his pupils carried away. On the fol-
lowing day the prisoner having been observed loiter-
ing about Hampstead, was taken into custody by
Deakin, a constable belonging to Kentish-town, and
conveyed to the watch-house of that place, upon
suspicion of having been concerned in the robbery.
In the course of the night he broke out of the watch-
house and escaped to Tottenham, where he had
been previously residing. In consequence of some
information received by Forster, a constable of Tot-
tenham, the prisoner was taken into custody, and
two large bundles, containing the property stolen
from the house of M. Lawrence, were found at his
lodgings. Of this property he could give no satis-
factory account, and as Forster had no previous in-
timation:of the robbery at Mr. Lawrence's, he was
for some time before lie could obtain an owner for
the clothing, which, however, he at last effected.
The various articles which were stolen from the

house of the prosecutor were yesterday identified
by Mr. Lawrence, and the case being complete
against the prisoner, he was fully committed to take
his trial for the burglary at the next sessions held at
the Old Bailey.
It would appear that the vice of stealing was the
ruling passion in the prisoner's family. His father,
who NI as a master-butcher in good business, was
some years ago convicted of stealing sheep, and sen-
tenced to t►ansportation. The prisoner's brother
was also tried for stealing a saddle and bridle, con-
victed, and sent out of the country ; and his sister
was subsequently detected in the act of stealing a
piece of print in the 'shop of a linen-draper in Hol-
born, and being convicted of the theft, was sent to
join her relatives in Botany Bay. The prisoner has
been in custody on several occasions, and although
well known to have been concerned in almost every
robbery that has occurred for some time past in
the vicinity of Tottenham, he has heretofore ma-
naged to escape punishment, chiefly owing to the
want of sufficient legal evidence to ensure his con-
viction.