The Sun. — 1839-04-08 (London, England)

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT  CALENDAR.  (THE 54TH SESSION, AND THE 6TH OF THE PRESENT MAYORALTY-COMMENCING THIS MORNING.) A summary statement, descriptive of the various offences with which the prisoners already committed for trial at the present session of Oyer and Termincr, and gaol delivery of Nevigate and tha other prisons within the jurisdict►on of the Central Criminal Court, severally stand charged—viz., with murder, 1 ; misdemeanour, 4 ; embezzlement, 10 ; bigamy, 1 ; burglary, 8 , house• breaking, 5 ; shop-breaking, 1 ; rape, 2 ; larceny, 141 ; child stealing, 1 ; sheep stealing, 2 ; highway robbery, 2 ; stealing goods and monies in dwelling-houses, 4 ; ditto, from the person, 31 ; ditto, by domestic servants, &c., 31 ; obtaining the like by false pretences, 1 ; 'accessory before the fact of felony, 1 ; unnatural offence 1 ; uttering and unlawfully possessing base coin, 15 ; forgery and uttering forged instruments, 2 ; having en engraved plate in possession for a felonious purpose, 1 ; receiving stolen goods with a guilty knowledge, 8 ; cutting, wounding, and beating persons, 4 ; London prisoners, 37 ; Middlesex ditto, 191 ; Essex ditto, 1 ; Kent ditto, 22 ; Surrey ditto, 25 ; total, 276.  The Chronicle does not now• concur in this view. It says— " The object we aim at is paramount to any feeling towards any administration. The consolidation of a people's party would render very unimportant the personnel of Government' and leave little concern about who should come in, or who go out. Let us but see the great mass of honest Reformers again in union, and we defy any set of Tories to govern the nation upen Tory principles, or to obstruct, as they now do, every attempt to embody liberal principles in practical measures." If it be, in the Chronicle's opinion, a matter of little concern who should come in and who go out of office, is it also a matter of little concern who may come in and wh• go out of Parliament upon a dissolution under a Tory Ministry, and a rupture between Whigs and Radicals? As the battle must be fought in the House of Commons, the question appears to us of momentous importance whether the Reformers would gain or lose strength in the House by the first certain consequence of overthrowing the Administration—namely, a dissolution under a Tory Government at the moment of exasperation between the deserted Whigs and the seceding Radicals. The union of Reformers of all shades of opinion, from the most forward to the most backward section, would undoubtedly be more than a match for the Tory power ; but we must reckon on something more certain than the bird in the bush, and it would be prudent to effect the union before the accession of the Tories to power is hazarded ; for the prospect would be rather blank if, after the enemy had possessed himself of the citadel, the Radicals find themselves on the one flank shorn of the Whigs (who though the fewer in numbers, have the powers of station and influence,) and on the other of the populace still ranged under the separate banner of the Chartists. The sane means which would suffice to turn the Tories out, if once in power, would be at least equally available to keep them out of office ; and we cannot recognize a first step to the Temple of Concord in a quarrel with the rear rank of the Liberal forces. When the Duke of Wellington was thwarted and impeded by his Spanish allies, who could hardly ever he induced to act in concert with him, it never occurred to the Great Captain that he could improve his condition by turning his arms against them, or leaving them to be cut to pieces by the French.