The Sun. — 1842-04-29 (London, England)

WEBBER. seconded the amendment. Mr. MonroN at great length called upon the meeting to pause before they supported either the motion or the amendment. He did not think the time had 3et arrived when, Lord John Russell should be censured for the course he had pursued, nor were they certain he was entitled to praise. If they at. lowed the measure to come into operation fast, they would be better judges. Cheers and laughter. ) Several other gentlemen addressed the meeting, and the resolution was put amidst a scene of the most indescribable uproar. The CiaatamaN declared the resolution in favour of Lard John Russell to be carried by a majority of :20 to 'l. The Tories and Chartists disputed-the decision, and great clamour ensued. Ultimately a vote of thanks was passed to the Chairman, and the meeting separated at a late hour, after giving three cheers for Lord John Russell, and three groans for Sir Robert Peel's ministry.  - - - = A SOLIYIER'S REWARD, Arles Scarlett, an Irishman, about 40 years of age, WaS charged at Guildhall on Wednesday with begging in St. Paul's Church-yard.  The policeman said that when he desired the prisoner to move on, he peremptorily refused to do so. He said he was destitute, he had no friends, and he had determlited to beg there, or be taken into eus'ody. He found the prisoner had served the. East India Company eleven years, and had been sent home invalided for deafness, without a pension. No pension was panted for less than fourteen years' service. He had lost his hearing by sleeping on the ground on his way to Candahar, and through the noise of the cannon at the taking of Ghuanee. He had his discharge about him. The prisoner, in answer to the inquiries of the Magistrate, sail he had been sent to Dublin by the East India Company, and discharged with .Bs. to take him home, but he wanted to go back to India. He should starve in England or Ireland, but he knew he +Amid do very well if he could get to Calcutta, where he had a wife living in the service of a Eteneral, and a injury in that service, that he son in Bishop lleber's school. Mr. Alderman KELLY thought that it was rather hard, after so anhdystZetaiCnolpany to sink fir want of a little be allowed a letter to be addressed to the Secretary, shouldr begging his itonsideration of this poor man's case, The policeman returned with a dry reply from the military secretary's office, that the pension did not become payable for less than fourteen years' .service, and that tae prisoner was discharged at the end of eleven years. Mr. Alderman KELLY said he knew all that before, and he did nut send him as a man who had a legal claim, bur one who had a strong claim on their sympathy and kindness. However, he would send him to the Canon-street:Union, and perhaps the Guardians would renew the application to the Company, or do something for him. A 1  letter from Ancona of the 15th inst., the truth which is attested by the British Consul resident in that lace, states that on the night of the Mt') of February, a Brish seaman, who was peaceably proceeding along the streets, was attacked and severely wounded by some assassins, of which Rounds he lingered till the l2th inst., when he died. The man declared that he was unconscious of having given offence to any person. All attempts to discover the murderers prosed ineffectual. When the funeral of the poor man was about to take place, an order came from the Vicar-general that he, being a Protestant, should not be buried by daylight, which is allowed, it seems, to the Jews. This order was enforced under the protest of the Consul against it. These facts, of which we have been specially desired to make public mention, exhibit, certainly, an extraordinary state of things for an age and country pretending to lie enlightened. The General Steam Navigation Company's British ship, Wilberforce, Captain Stranack, arrived from Antwerp yesterday morning after a tine passage of nineteen hours.