The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-23 00:00:00

CLERKEN WELL

Catherine Leary was charged under the following circum-
stances :--On Thursday night, between 7 and 8, Police-con-
stable Archer proceeded to Bell-court, Gray's Inn-lane, to
disperse a mob of low characters who had assembled there.
On reaching the place he found the prisoner literally mad
drunk, and throwing her little infant, not more than a feW
months old, into the air ; sometimes catching it in its fall,
and sometimes allowing one of the bystanders to do so. Then
she would throw it on the ground, and roll it about like a foot-
ball. When the constable apprehended her, the helpless little
sufferer was almost insensible. The prisoner refused to go to
the station-house, and so violent and pertinacious did she be-
come, that no less than three constables were obliged to assist
in bringing her there.
Inspector Jarvis, with laudable humanity, ordered a search
to he made after her other child. She refused to give up the
key of her miserable apartment, but it was broken open, and
the child was found in a deplorable state of filth and emacia-
tion. The Inspector stated that she was drunk six days out of
the seven.

Mr. GREENWOOD ordered the ehildren tr be consigned to
the parish officer, and the prisoner to be sent to the Houle of
Correction for twenty-one days.
Jeremiah .11' earthy, a young boy of most diminutive stature,
was committed for having feloniously entered the shop of Mr.
Cochrane, baker, Francis-street, Tottenham-court-road, on
Thursday afternoon, and stealing the Ltill therefrom, which con-
tained about a pound in silver.
IVORSIIIP-STREE T.

Ann White, a young woman of deplorable appearance, was
brought before Mr. Bingham, and charged with being a street
beggar.

'fhe prisoner was taken into custody in Finsbury-place,
where she was found sitting at the step of a door, exhibiting
a written paper, representing her to be in a state of starva-
tion, and imploring assistance.

In answer to the charge the prisoner, with a profus'.on of
tears and sobs, declared that she was most willing to labour for
her livelihood, but she had been unable to obtain any emplisy_
ment for the last six weeks, and was in the last state of destitu-
tion and wretchedness.
The MAGISTRATE was visiby impressed with the truth of her
statement, and was about to direct her how to proceed in order
to obtain parish relief, when
Horsford, a mendicity officer, stepped forward and said that
the prisoner was an incorrigible beggar, who had carried on a
long carver of imposition, and had been twice convicted.—She
was committed fora month to the House of Correction.

NATIONAL CONVENTION,

The Convention met this day at the usual hour.
Mr. Du NCAN took the chair.

The names of the Delegates were called over.
The Convention was occupied the whole morning in receiv-
ing Reports from various Associations.
Mr. CAMPBELL, reported from the English Executive, from
which it appeared that they had been in existence twelve
months. At the time they were established the Association
contained only 70 or 80 towns, and at the present time it num-
bered 350. In London, at the formation of the Association,
there were 17 or 18 " localities," and at the present time they
numbered 40. In Northampton, at the commencement, they
had no " locality ;" at the present time they numbered seven
or eight. In Birmingham they had increased in numbers of
individuals, though not in Associations. In Leicester, at the
commencement of the Association, there were but 100 mem-
bers; now they numbered 1,200. In Nottingham they had a
large increase, as also in Derby, the Potteries, Cheshire, and
other places.
The Address to the people of England was then submitted to
the Convention. The Address had been got up, calling on the
people to support and advance the principles of the Charter.
The Address, with a few verbal amendments, was then
agreed to.

Mr. O'CoNNoR said that as a proof of the strong feeling that
existed in the manufacturing districts on the subject of the
Charter, he had to inform them that there was a man in the
room who had walked all the way from Manchester to attend
the procession to the House of Commons, on the day the Na-
tional Petition is to be presented.—( Cheers.)
The Convention adjourned at a quarter to one o'clock.

A few days ago, a man purchased a roasted
goose at a cook's- shop in the Rue de la Cite, paid the
price, and carried it home. In ten minutes after he returned
with it cut up in a dish, certainly exhaling an odour by no
means of a nature to excite an appetite, and complaining of im-
position, demanded a return of his money. This the cook,
who was a female, refused, and a dispute arose, by which the
man at last became so exasperated that, finding a large basket
of eg,2,s at hand, he converted them into projectiles against the
head, face, anci neck of the cook, so that she was put into a moat
deplorable plight, before a corporal and four men of the guard,
who were immediately called in, could stop the shower. The
poor woman was much bruised and cut by the broken shells.
The assailant was taken to the prefecture.
FATAL ACCIDENT. Between eight and nine
o'clock on Thursday morning James Buchan, aged 43 years, a
journeyman painter and glazier, expired at St. George's Hos-
pital, from the severe injuries he sustained by falling out of
a window he was cleaning, on Monday last, only three feet from
the ground, at the residence of Mr. Evans, 4-1, Hans-place,
Sloane-street, Chelsea. The unfortunate man fell on his back.
and on being raised up was found to have sustained a comp.,und
fracture of his right leg, of so dreadful a nature as to cause
his death.

THE INCOME PLUNDER.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN

Six,—As the people are generally ignorant of the machinery
by which Pitt worked his Income-tax, perhaps the following
may show them a little how they may expected to be Peel-ed
by the present Income-tax, and to gnaw their chains with re-
morse for their own apathy in not opposing its enactment.
I was (when Pitt's Income-tax was inflicted) a partner in a
small manufacturing concern, and during the three previous
years, from which our average income was to be reckoned, we
had incurred upwards of 8001. losses, in bad debts, and goods
shipwrecked.
I laid before the Commissioners (some of them violent plot-
hatching Tories of the Castlereagh school) a clear statement
of our losses, giving names and dates of every item, showing
that our income was nothing, and that we had been subsisting
on our capital. The Chairman settled the business at once by
saying, "Yen cannot maintain your family for less than 360/. a
year, and therefore you shall be assessed at 3001." We had no
appeal—nothing but pay, and work or starve.—l am,

ONE OF THE PLUNDERED.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sta,—As the Noble Lord, the Member for South Lanca-
shire, has thought proper to boast of the petition which he
presented from Manchester in favour of Sir Robert Peel's
Income-tax and tariff, I beg to inform you, for the benefit and
satisfaction of those staunch Reformers which Manchester can
boast of, that the majority of the manufacturers, merchants,
shopkeepers, and others, are opposed to the obnoxious, inquisito-
rial, and shameful Income-tax ; and therefore I declare that if
those 24,000 signatures, which the Noble Lord said his peti-
tion contained, were scrutinised, there would not be found more
than one-fifth in favour of the beautiful and well-liked tax,
and that one- fifth is composed of the Church clergy and their
friends and partisans, who, when they were asked to sign a
petition for repealing the obnoxious Corn-laws, declared it was
a public question, and they would have nothing at all to do
with it. Now these are the men who cry aloud for the Income.
tax, and any measure which their old friend, Sir Robert, may
think proper to propose. If the Noble Lord, or any one of the
Members for Lancashire, will take the trouble to go round to
every elector, or even non-electors, they will find how they
have been deluded by their friends, and in such a manner as(
think they will not easily forget.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Manchester, April2l, 1842. LIBERATO REFORMO.