The Sun. — London, England, 1834-04-04 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The public are probably not fully aware of the benefits which have been derived from the establishment of the New Court of Bankruptcy, or what a frightful amount of fraud and perjury might have been prevented, and how many tens of thousands of pounds might have been obtained by creditors from dishonest insolvents and un faithful or negligent assignees, had the present system been brought into operation five-and twenty or thirty years. Those who are not con versant with the subject can scarcely conceive what have been the number and extent of frau dulently concocted commissions of bankruptcy, heretofore worked, as the term was, by a certain class of solicitors. It was by no means uncom mon for a swindler who had got credit to as large an amount as his means permitted, to cause a. docket to be struck against himself, and in order that friendly assignees might be chosen, and his certificate insured, a number of fellows were always ready to prove debts under the commission, generally as Holders of bills of exchange ; and the real cre ditors, who were perfectly satisfied as to the nefarious character of the whole transaction, were unable to counteract the impudent villany of which they were made the victims. A case which occurred just before the new court opened, and which has been detailed to us by a well informed correspondent, furnishes a notable il lustration of these remarks :—A man was con fined in Whitecross-street for certain debts, and considering probably that the ordeal of the Insolvent Debtors' Court would not quite suit his case, did not seek his discharge through the medium of that tribunal, but became bankrupt. His petitioning creditor was his own brother, who had been some years back whipped at Newgate for a felony, and being subsequently found guilty of a second crime, was transported for seven years. He is now, or was very lately, again in prison ; a second creditor was one William Taylor, notorious as a hired bail, who had lived in every prison in the metropolis, and who was transported last year for fraud ; a third was John Thropp, whom the judges' clerks well remember at chambers, and who died in the House of Correction, where he was undergoing a sentence of two years' imprison ment for personating some one as bail; the fourth pseudo-creditor was Edward Smith, generally called Ned Smith, infamous for the last 17 or 18 years as living either in gaol or by swindling or acting as bought bail. This poor wretch finished his career by being clerk to the cele brated Coster, with whom he was convicted and transported for life. There were four others who kissed the book on this occasion much of the same description, whose turn to be trans ported has not, it is believed, yet arrived, three of them old gaol-birds, and the other a common justifier of bail for anybody that 'would afford a moderate remuneration for false swearing. Surely every one who feels the least concern for the interests of morality, or commercial integrity and security, will acknowledge that the country is highly indebted to the Lord Chancellor for originating and carrying into effect a sys- tem which renders impracticable such knavish conspiracies as those of which the fore going is an instance. These are unquestion ably the . chief advantages of the measure by which Lord Brougham reformed the administra tion of the bankrupt law ; but the measure has this other recomnlendation—a secondary one, we admit, yet still one which should not be overlooked—namely, that it achieved this great moral good, and conferred these substantial be nefits to the commercial world, at a less expense than that required for the mischievous and de fective system which it superseded. It appears by a Parliamentary return " of offices abolished and created in the Court of Chancery during the years 1831, 1832, and 1833," that the income of the 70 Commissioners of Bankrupt mounted to 26,6001., that of the Secretary of Bankrupts'-office to 5,2891., and that of the messengers to the Commissioners to 9,3681., making in all 41,257/. On the other hand, the return states the expenses of the Judges and Commissioners of the new Court to be 15,000/. ; of the Secretary of Bankrupts' office, 2,800/. ; of the Messengers, 3,352/. ; and the salaries of the Registrars and Deputy-Registrars, 8,000/., making in all 29,152/. The difference of ex pense, therefore, in favour of the new system is the difference between 41,257/. and 29,1527. — that is to say, 12,105/. This sum of 12,105/. is not, of course, wholly saved at present, be cause it is subject to a temporary reduction owing to the compensation granted to the holders a the offices abolished. Still, however, the difference between the expense of the two sys tems is 12,1051., and that sum will ultimately be wholly saved.— Times. The bill for the abolition of imprisonment for debt, so long promised by the Government, is still delayed. Even the provincial Legislature of Canada has got the start of the British Par liament in this respect, as the Montreal Papers announce the publication of a bill to repeal a law which confounds misfortune with crime, and, like all acts of injustice, has operated to the detri ment of society at large. Of all the laws derived from less civilized times, it would be difficult to point out one more absurd than that which per mits the incarceration of the body of a man who is unable to pay his debts, without any im putation of fraud against the victim of this op pressive law. Where there is fraud, indeed, in the contracting of debts, or in making away with property which should be reserved for their pay ment, let it be punished, for fraud is criminal ; and we do not wish to protect crime, but to prevent innocence from suffering the punish ment which should be reserved for guilt. The absurdity of the law is seen in this, that it compels a man, as it were, to pay his debts by depriving him of all means of retrieving his affairs. In this way, it is true, a harsh credi tor may gratify a vindictive feeling ; but law should never minister to the passion of revenge. Many a man whose industry would enable him to overcome the difficulties, not of his own creating, with which he may be oppressed, is utterly ruined by being thrust into a gaol. Many an honest and steady man, too, by the evil association of a prison, has been corrupted in his principles, deprived of his good habits, and has re-entered society reckless of character, and qualified to follow any other pursuit but one of honest industry. A great portion of the criminals of this county are created by the demoralizing instruction of a gaol. Thus one of the great results of the oppressive system is to multiply criminals, and thus the vindictive law re-acts against the interests of society. One pernicious effect of the law as regards the coni numiiv in general, is the system of false credit which it engenders, whereby people are induced to live beyond their incomes ; the creditor knowing that the body of the debtor is pledged by the law for the debt, and he relies upon that law extorting from the sympathy and compassion of relatives and friends the payment of debts which the debtor himself may be unable to discharge, and which, but for the facility of credit that the law of imprisonment creates, he never would have contracted. But if the case of the honest debtor of the male sex who is dragged to a prison is bad, how much worse is the situation of the unfriended female, whom some heard-hearted creditor thrusts into the noisome moral atmosphere of a gaol, to pine in broken-hearted wretchedness, or fly from the gloom of a comfortless cell, and despairing thoughts, to its debasing associations ! It is painful to think how many have fallen in this way from honesty and virtue to the depths of de pravity. Thus does the operation of this cruel law extend the influence of vice, and prove itself a moral calamity to this Christian land. Rea son, justice, and sound policy, dictate that if a debtor has property whereby he can pay his debts, and will not pay them, that property should be made available to the payment of his debts ; but that if a debtor has no property, he should not be deprived of the chance of making any, or of retrieving his affairs, by being thrown into prison. The matter has been seen in this light by the com missioners, who reported in favour of the aboli tion of imprisonment for debt. Government has incurred the charge of a most culpable ne gligence by allowing the introduction of the bill for that purpose to be so long delayed. It seems as if they were, always to be most re luctantly dragged to any improvement which concerns the reformation of the laws, and the morals of the people. Under the law of im prisonment for debt, a man is allowed, con trary to the first elements of justice, to be judge in his own cause, for upon his ex parte affidavit a man who does not owe him a farthing, nay, to whom he is himself a debtor, may be torn from his family and employment, and immured in a dungeon. How long is this disgrace to our laws to be tolerated ?—Morning Herald. Mr. Robert Grwme, the nephew of Lord Lynedoch, has obtained the seat at the Treasury Board, and will stand for the great county of Perth, on the Whig and Reform interest. It is doubted by many, whether, after the clearing out, to use a familiar but expressive phrase, of Sir George Murray, at the last election, he will again attempt this formidable county. The Conservatives are strong in the counties of Scot land, and in Perthshire, if Sir George can prevail on the Carlton Club to come hand somely down, he may run Mr. Grime hard. But it is believed, the Conservatives generally are somewhat in the predicament of Sir George. They have been now long out of office ; and as the hope of a speedy return cannot be very strong, subscriptions must, in consequence, ' slacken. Thanks to the ten-pound constitu ency, a county, more or less, will not affect the relative proportion of Tories to other members in the House of Commons, and as no men are snore practical than Conservatives, the subscription purses are somewhatlong-necked. We do not say that they may not make a dash to favour Sir George, but as they are Jews to the backbone, we do not believe that they will be inclined to hazard much in a case which cannot hasten their return to the Treasury, and which would merely give an elegant, but somewhat holiday speaker to the House of Commons. The conservatives have besides never trusted much to mere oratory. Their strength lay in intriguing, and in argu ments ad crumenam. They are the spawn of loanmongers, contractors, &c. ; and so long as they had the public money at their command, they were truly formidable. But the 101. con stituency can neither be bribed nor bullied, and whatever else may happen, this is certain, that the conservatives never can again have a majo rity in a reformed House of Commons. No thing amuses us so much as the doleful lamenta tions of the conservatives on this subject, and the reproaches they now utter against the Duke of Wellington for his political blindness in re fusing all reform, instead of conceding a mo dified reform, and thereby obtaining the guidance of it. In Blackwood's Magazine there are occasionally articles on this subject, in which a good many truths are told, for your true conservative, having much of the Jew in him, will not easily forgive any blunder which cuts him off from the Treasury. In an article in Blackwood for April, on the progress of social disorganization, the writer calculates with all the keenness of a Herries the forces under the Reform Bill. He analyses the population of the island, and shows that the great cities of the empire have tripled their population since 1801, the manufacturing districts more than doubled, while the increase in the agricultural districts has not been more in general than 20 or 30 per cent. And he then proceeds to show that the Duke of Wellington should have ob served this change, and gained the direction of the new power, by enlisting on his side the leading men in the great manufacturing towns, who are more conservative than the Conserva- tives themselves. The subject is curious, and handled with some ingenuity. We, at the time, told as much as this to the Duke ; but he was blind ; and the Tories, to whom he yielded in an evil hour, now reproach him with his obstinacy. But we must return to the sub ject.—Morning Chronicle. Several of the Ministerial Papers have been commenting for the last day or two, in a manner which they manifestly intended to be severe, upon a charge to the jury delivered by Mr. Justice Patteson on a trial for libel at Shrews bury. The publication on which the action was founded consisted of a report of the pro ceedings of some of the corporation commis sioners, and it was urged on behalf of the de fendant that the report was a faithful one. To this it was replied that the correctness or incorrectness of the report was immaterial to the issue, inasmuch as, the commission being an illegal commission, the publication of its pro ceedings was not a privileged publication, and, supposing the matter to be in its own nature libellous, the fact of its having been stated be fore the commissioners would be no legal de- fence. The Judge overruled the defence set up on behalf of the Shrewsbury Chronicle, upon the specific ground that the proceedings before the commissioners of Corporation Inquiry were merely initiatory, and that for this reason, if there were no other, their publication was not privileged, adding, however, that " it was very much questioned whether the commission of Corporation Inquiry were legal." We have thus stated, accurately we believe, the conduct on the part of Mr. Justice Patteson which has excited the grave displeasure of some of our ministerial contemporaries. This displeasure, and the manner in which it has been expressed, convey to us a more lively impression than any other circumstance of recent occurrence of the value and importance to the nation of the independence of the judicial bench, and of the weight of the calamity which was averted the other day by the defeat of that portion of the administra tion who were desirous of sacrificing Sir Wil liam Smith to propitiate Mr. O'Connell. Had this division of the Whig ministry succeeded in their base design there can be no doubt, from the spirit manifested towards Mr. Jus tice Patteson by some of the ministerial journals, that, by this time, the country would have rung with the fierce denunciations of the whole of them, and that the first proceeding of the House of Commons, after the recess, would have been to debate at least, probably to pass, a resolution of censure against that judge. And for what ? For explaining to a jury, with the simplicity and moderation which best befit the seat of judgment, what the law of England is in relation to a case which that jury were called to decide, under his judicial guidance. The statement of the learned judge, that " it was very much questioned whether the Com mission of Corporation Inquiry were legal," amounted, we admit, to a plain intimation that, in his opinion, the Commission was illegal. But can any thing be more clear than that, in conveying this intimation to the jury, the learned jndge did the very least that was con sistent with his duty ? Are judges to permit juries to decide in cases materially affecting 'the property arid the rights of their fellow-subjects 'without letting them know what the law of the land is in reference to those cases, rather than express their opinion, whenever that opinion may seem to militate against the legality of some antecedent measure of the executive government ? Can our ministerial contemporaries imagine that there is a single judge upon the bench, includ- ing even the two Whig judges, Lord Denman and Mr. Baron Williams, who does not fully coincide in the opinion intimated by Mr. Justice Patteson ? Can they imagine that there is a single lawyer of the least reputation in the three kingdoms, except such as either are or hope to be placed by the Whigs upon some jobbing Commission, who would hesitate to avow his full concurrence in this opinion ? Are our judgesohen, to be tongue-tied, is the law to be veiled and obscured, by those who are emphatically called the luminaries of the law, because a reckless and ignorant House of Com mons have advised, and a reckless, ignorant, and rapacious Administration have accomplish ed, an illegal stretch of the Royal prerogative ? We had thought that the principles of the Bri tish Constitution—we had thought that the essential principles of any Constitution pretend ing to respect and preserve the freedom of mankind—were still held in some estimation in this country. It appears, however, that we were mistaken. Reform must have obliterated those principles from the national mind, or we should not find public journalists, and the Ministers whom they desire to serve, overlook ing, as they do, one of the most important of the number, the perpetual separation and independence of the executive, the legislative, and the judicial functions. Mr. Justice Pat teson intimated his opinion with great caution and moderation. We do not say that he per mitted those valuable qualities to degenerate upon this occasion into timidity. But we do say that, in speaking of the Corporation Com mission, he might have held a bolder and a stronger language, and not only have escaped censure, but have earned a title to the highest applause. He said what was necessary to the case before him, and he said no more. Had he been disposed to travel beyond that he might, without the risk of impeachment to either his learning or his discretion, have denounced Pre rogative Commissions generally, not merely as illegal, but as repugnant and odious in the highest possible degree to the law of England. —Morning Post. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—WARWICK, APRIL 2, (Before Chief Justice TINDAL.) OSBORNE V. BENNETT. This was an action by which the plaintiff sought compensation in damages from the defendant, for criminal conversation with his wife. The plaintiff is a stone-mason, residing at Ben ton, in this county ; and the defendant is a pin manufacturer, living in the neighbourhood. During the plaintiff's illness, in the spring of 1833, the de fendant frequently called to see him, and took op portunity of those visits, and of the plaintiff's ill ness, to debauch the mind of plaintiff's wife. They met afterwards by appointment at an inn in Bir mingham, and acts of adultery were there com mitted. From the statement of counsel, and the evidence on the other side, it appeared that the plaintiff and his wife had sometimes quarrelled about two years ago, when the plaintiff called her a --, and she gave him a blow of her fist. Before the departure of the wife from plaintiff's house, he went to defend ant's, and told him he (the plaintiff) was turning away his wife, and he (defendant) might do what he liked with her. Subsequently to the discovery of the meeting in Birmingham, the plaintiff was seen to visit his wife at Stratford, in this county, and a conversation between them was heard in respect to damages, and the wife said she should have the 1001. This was an allusion, it was insisted, to this action, which the plaintiff and wife were concocting between themselves. They were seen more than once to re tire into a private room together. Upon a suggestion from the Learned Judge, at this stage of the case, the counsel on both sides consented to stop the case by withdrawing a juror. Amongst the other abortive actions tried this day and . yesterday, were the following : LAWRENCE V. LAWRENCE. This was an action of libel contained in a letter written by the defendant, imputing to the plaintiff that he had been detected by his own wife making violent love to a cutty of a warehouse girl, and that for that act of adultery he had been dismissed from the Scotch Church at Birmingham, of which he had been an elder. The defendant had also posted up a placard in front of plaintiff's house, with the words You lying villain," in large letters. The CHIEF JUSTICE, learning from the opening of the case that the parties were brothers, and both much respected in Birmingham, more than once re commended a private arrangement, which was ac ceded to after the case on both sides had been fully gone through. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—GLOUCESTER, APRIL 2, (Before Mr. Justice PARK.) POWELL V. BUSH. This was an action of trespass, brought by the plaintiff, a game-keeper of Lord Seagrave, against the two defendants, who were brothers (one of them being a student of the Inner Temple, and the other an attorney), for sporting on a piece of land which was in the occupation of the plaintiff. The de fendants pleaded as a justification that the land be longed to Sir Samuel Wathen, and he had g iven them permission to sport on this land under the ith section of the new Game Act. The justification was not fully made out, and there was a verdict for the plaintiff, with Is. damages. FLINTSHIRE. (Before Mr. Baron BOLLAND,) There were 10 prisoners for trial, and three causes at Nisi Priu.c. Edward Ankers, aged 20, James Thqnzas, aged 28, Thomas Davies, aged 26, and William Thomas, aged 22, were indicted for being out armed, on the 29th of January, in the night-time, upon the en closed grounds of Sir Stephen R. Glynne, Bart., in the parish of Hawarden, for the purpose of killing game. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and his LORDSHIP sentenced them to be each imprisoned 12 months, and kept to hard labour. WESTMINSTER GENERAL QUARTER SESSIONS, APRIL 3. These sessions commenced this morning at the Guildhall, before F. CONST, Esq., Chairman, and a bench of magistrates. Several persons called to serve on the juries made various excuses, most of which were rejected. One gentleman said he had been deaf for thirty years past. A colloquy ensued, in which the venerable Chairman said, " Sir, you hear me in a moderate toned voice at this distance, and in the Grand Jury room you can compel the witnesses, who are not likely to be so old as I am, to be cloie to you, and to speak as loud as you may desire."—Application refused. THE KING, ON THE PROSECUTION OF FORBES AND OTHERS V. R. AND T. BOND. Mr. ADOLPHUS applied to the court in this long continued cause. The learned counsel then pro ceeded to state the facts as they have been repeat edly detailed in The Sun. The defendants, by their artful conduct, and wealth was not wanting to as sist them, managed by a course of conduct and by practices which the law allowed them, to evade trial and the justice sought for by the prosecutors for sixteen months. When first indicted they re moved the indictment by certiorari into the Court of King's Bench, thinking they might not be followed ; in that, however, they were mistaken, and were beaten out by a writ of procedendo. Then by re moving the venire into another court, and putting in bail, which were not known or to be found, they succeeded in gaining further delay, yet they said they were certain to appear and take their trial that day. " But," said Mr. Adolphus, " the devil a de fendant have we here in court, or ever shall have, without further measures." His application to the court was, and it was one of course, that the recog nizances of the defendants should be estreated, and, further, that they should enter into fresh sureties ; and, under the circumstances of the case, he trusted the court would consider they should be more re sponsible in the amount, and he therefore moved that the defendants should enter into securities of 1,000/. each in themselves, and find two sureties in 500 L to appear to take their trial. The CHAIRMAN said that, before the Court could. grant an application for such extensive bail, it must be furnished with an affidavit of the matters which the Learned Advocate had stated as facts. After some conversation Mr. ADOLPHUS assented, and time was allowed to prepare an affidavit. The clerk of the peace stated the present recog nizances to be, each of the defendants in 801., and two sureties in 401. each. Subsequently, Mr. Noel, the attorney, put in and swore to an affidavit, in which he deposed that he had made search and inquiry respecting the bail,and that he could not find them, and that he verily be lieved they were men of straw. The deponent - also stated that he had been put to great trouble and ex pense by the vexatious delays of the defendants. Mr. ADOLPHUS said that 1,0001. had been ex pended to prosecute, and they were as near its con clusion as at first. The COURT received the affidavit, and directed the former recognizances, in a 11320/., to be estreated ; and ordered the defendants to find fresh ones in the sum of 2001., and two sureties each in the sum of 100/., making altogether 800/. There was another indictment preferred by a Mr. Fisher, which stood precisely in the same condition, and the recognizances were estreated in the like manner, and fresh ones ordered, as in the last case ; 24 hours' notice of bail was also ordered to be given to the prosecutor's attorney. Bench warrants, it was stated, would forthwith issue. Mr. Forbes, who is made to appear as the prcise cutor, is only nominally so, his name as a witness being the first on the back of the bill of indictment. He chanced to mention he had seen play at the Athenaeum gambling-house, when he was served with a subpoena. In another indictment Ephraim Bond is included with Robert and Joseph. Elizabeth Hurley was convicted of stealing a so vereign from a Frenchman named Augustus Le Brun, who stated be came to London to study the English language ; but who, from the evidence, ap peared to have neglected the study of prudence. Sentence—Four months' imprisonment. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MA NSION-HOUSE. The LORD MAYOR directed that the water-bailiff should attend at the justice-room, in consequence of the statement in the newspapers that the late melan choly accident on the Thames, by which the boat of Pope, the waterman, had been swamped, was occa sioned by one of those perilous obstructions which were so often complained of on the river Thames. The water-bailiff stated to his Lordship that the owners of pieces of timber, which were found to form serious impediments to the navigation of the Thames, were frequently indicted for such nuisances; but the indictments had not, though prosecuted vigorously, the effect of clearing the river of these obstructions. The Loin MAYOR said that the river was ren dnuerd m e be m r o o r f e dsteaanmg-evreosusselbs by the v which at a plied s t d o d i a t n i odn fromto the all parts. He had refused a license to a company calling itself the Woolwich Steam-vessel Company, to ply from Woolwich to Hungerford-stairs, on account of his knowledge of the dangerous swell of the water produced by the propulsion of those enormous boats, as well as on account of the great injury which the watermen along the river would encounter if he had consented. His Lordship was of opinion that the harbour-masters ought at all events to assist in preventing nuisances from being made in the river, or that, if they hesitated to do so, the economical principle should be extended to the office, and a diminution take place in the numbers paid. In a case of the awful nature which had called his attention to the subject, the public natu rally looked to the conservator of the river Thames, and he was determined to let no opportunity pass of causing the strictest investigation to be made. His Lordship also informed the water-bailiff that he had received, as conservator of the river Thames, a communication from the Lords of the Admiralty, intimating that they had given orders to make im provements in the river Thames, near Woolwich dock, calculated to prevent the great deposit of mud in that vicinity, and to give great improvement to the navigation ; and his Lordship directed the water-bailiff to give every facility in his power. A man, who said that his name was Stewart, but who is known to the Mendicity Society as a begging letter-writer, with many different names, adopted to suit his convenience, was brought up charged with having beaten and dragged about his wife by the hair in the streets.—The man was committed. LAMBETH-STREET. The magistrates at this office, Messrs. NORTON and HARDWICK, were yesterday occupied for a con siderable time in investigating a charge of assault, arising, as it was alleged, from a feeling of revenge towards the complainant, in consequence of his taking the situation of a discharged member of the trades' union, working for a lower rate of wages than his predecessor, and refusing himself to join the union. The parties charged were—John Roberts, Isaac Gill, and Thomas Smith, with assaulting, and John Smith and Martha Smith, his wife, with 'threaten ing the life of Samuel Gurling. The male defend ants, as well as the complainant, are farriers by trade. Gurling, on Good Friday last, went into the Three Crowns, the tap-house belonging to his mas ter, Joseph Tickle, Esq.'s, brewery, in Castle itreet, Whitechapel, when he saw the defendants, Roberts, Gill, and Thomas Smith, sitting in front of the bar. Roberts was a perfect stranger to him, and so was Gill, except his having seen him once or twice before ; but Smith he was well acquainted with. On entering the house, and seeing them, he jokingly said, " How do you do, you jolly farriers ?" and was proceeding into the tap-room, when Ro berts, without the slightest provocation, struck him a violent blow under the ear and knocked him down. On recovering himself, the persons in the tap-room said, " Surely you are not going to put up with whenesu io c t c o ee t d h e e d h i o n o b se e , at G in i g ll, R w o h b o er. that ?" and he returned the blow, and both he and Roberts went into the street and fought it out, As p p h eedw to returning was stripped fight, and apparently prepared for the purpose, struck him a heavy blow, which brought him to the ground ; and being fatigued after the former fight, some persons pregent took him away. He did not think that the prisoner Thomas Smith struck him at all, but he encouraged Robert's to knock his head off, and seconded him while he was fighting, and attempted to strike him. On the evening of the same day when he (witness) was going into White chapel with his brother, he saw Gill and the f ema l e defendant standing as if ? in waiting for him, and the former instantly struck him. He did not return the blow, but requested that a policeman who came up would take Gill into custody ; but he refused to do so, as he had not himself seen the assault com mitted. The witness could give no reason for the attacks made upon him, further than he was always spited because he did not belong to the union. The defendants called themselves " blues," and called him " a black ;" and the words blacks and blues were mentioned by some of the party before he was' struck. About nine months ago he took the place of John - Smith, as farrier to Mr. Tickle, and since then he had been subjected to the greatest possible annoyance by the Smiths, and by strangers whom they had frequently taken to the shop to abuse him. MAGISTRATE—Have you heard that Mr. Tickle discharged Smith in consequence of his demanding higher wages, and his being a unionist ?—Yes, Sir. MAGISTRATE—What wages had he, and what have you per week?—He had 285., and I have but 265. a-week. Thomas Gray, a drayman, in the employment of Mr. Tickle, corroborated the statement of com plainant as to Roberts having struck him without any provocation, as did also two other witnesses. The defendant Roberts said he was drunk at the time, and alone was to blame for the transaction. He declared that he knew not at the time of the affray whether the complainant was a farrier or not ; nor was he aware, then or now, that he did or did not belong to the union. The other defendants, also, disclaimed any ill will towards the complainant ; and Gill said that he had been knocked down, kicked, and very much ill used at the Three Crowns public-house, and had taken off his Clothes merely to take his own part, and had challenged to fight any one of his adversaries. Gurling, the complainant, was then desired to stand forward, and in reply to a question from Mr. HARDWICK, he said that it was his impression that the parties had been brought to assault him, in con sequence of his taking the place of John Smith, and his refusing to belong to their society. The MAGISTRATES, after some remarks on the conduct of the defendants, convicted Gill in the pe nalty of 41., or two months' in the House of Correc tion ; Roberts to 21., or one month ; Thomas Smith to 1/., or one month ; and ordered John Smith and wife to put in bail to keep the peace towards the complainant for the space of three months. - QUEEN.SQUARE. A man, named David Macdonald, who said he lived at 4, Church-lane, St. Giles's, was brought up in custody, charged with sending begging letters to various persons, and forging the names of indivi duals as subscribers to his tale of distress. He was fully committed for trial. MA RYLEBONE. Yesterday a respectable-looking middle-aged woman, who gave her name Elizabeth Dance, was brought before Mr. GREGORIE on a charge of having stolen a parsnip and a potatoe from two dif ferent greengrocers' shops. The prisoner, who is very eccentric in her con duct, was formerly in the enjoyment of a large for t tune, and kept a splendid establishment in Wim-, pole-street. She was at present living at 22, John son-street, Somers'-town ; her income, from the extravagant and singular life she had led, being re duced to about 70/. per annum. On the same morning she went into the shop of Mr. Dowling, a greengrocer, of Union -street, Somers'-town, where she sometimes dealt, and, watching an opportunity, stole a fine large parsnip out of a. basket, and, placing it under her cloak, walked away with it. She was afterwards seen to enter the shop of another greengrocer in the neighbourhood, and was detected in the act of pocketing a large potatoe. She was then given into custody. Mrs. Dance having pleaded intoxication in exte nuation of her singular method of supplying herself with vegetables, she was fined ss. and discharged. UNION-HALL. Yesterday Mr. John Wilcox, a butcher, in an extensive way of business in Kent-place, Old Kent road, appeared to answer a charge of assault pre ferred against him by a Miss Sadler, a young person of considerable personal attractions. The complainant stated that the defendant be cameyanoudyounger eerinsgis tae r acquaintedbachelor with particular abe attention, r family that m s s oom period,eu ch t he i me ago, and that da the family had every reason to imagine that he in tended to marry her. He was in the habit of pay ing daily visits at the house of her parents, and escorting complainant's sister to church every Sun lay since their acquaintance had commenced. Upon a recent occasion, however, complainant's family heard that the defendant had married about a month ago, and yet he kept it a profound secret, and still persevered in his visits and attentions to complainant's sister, without giving her the most remote intimation that he had formed a matrimonial alliance with another ! When the circumstances of his marriage bocame known, complainant, ac companied by her mother, went to the defendant's shop for the purpose of ascertaining the truth of the report of his marriage, and expostulating with him on the baseness of his conduct. They found him in the shop, and although his looks betrayed him, yet he affected to be happy at seeing them, and inquired particularly for Miss Sadler, to whom • he had been paying his addresses. Complainant's mother now interrogated him, and with evident confusion he admitted the fact. Complainant then expressed her indignation of his conduct, and he ordered her and her mother to quit the shop, threatening to call in the aid of a policeman if they did not obey the mandate. Com plainant and her mother still remained there, and she candidly admitted that they both gave vent to their feelings in strong language. Finding that they were not disposed to leave the place so soon as he anticipated, the defendant seized the complainant's mother roughly by the arms, and endeavoured to eject her from the shop ; on seeing which the daugh ter ran to her assistance, and endeavoured to prevent him from carrying it into effect. He then turned on complainant, and in attempting to put her out of the house, struck her a blow on the side, from which she still felt considerable pain. Com plainant and her mother afterwards left the shop, but before this took place, a policeman was called in by the defendant. The complainant, in her cross-examination by Mr. Warner, admitted that she saw " a tall pock marked woman" in the defendant's parlour, but that she did not call her a " cribbage-faced creature. Complainant did retaliate on the defendant when he struck her and attempted to put her mother out of the shop, by giving him a slap on the face. The deFendant, in reply, said that the complainant and her daughter called at his shop on the day in question, and in the presence of his wife, abused him for alleged misconduct on his part to one of the Miss Sadlers. He endeavoured to explain matters, but it was of no use, for they refused to listen to arly explanation, called him " a faithless man," and de signated his newly-married wife " a cribbage-faced creature," because she happened to be marked with the small-pox. They went on in such a style, and. more ot o otu u re re s m e house, ui which attempting marriage otfo theyf rien d s h i p ejectn, it h atnhoe refused tmhthe arh t n o : comply was I refused to leave the place, that be was at length h compelled to order mother and daughter out of 10° d Sadler. He ought to have been complainant instea of defendant. . the habit of paying Miss Sadler yattention even aftert MURRAY—DO you den that you were in Defendant—Hl:ej, mitted that he paid her and was particular attention, But in the habit of accompan y ingher church. to he struck r " u . had given her a broadliiiit that be was married to anoter woman. Mrs.i c t k h , hy an and es Sadler denied that he had ever given her the slightest hint of such being the case to any Ineni ber of her family. The defendant called a policeman to prove that he was the aggrieved party, but this witness's con' duct on the occasion was of such a nature as to CO forth the censure of the Magistrate. After the examination of another witness, 10/b °s , i t : evidence was not material, the Magistrates a ninle`;', verted on the conduct of the 'defendant, and s o f that alth co urtship . ough they did not intend to convict him o the assault, as it was admitted that he had been as' saulted himself, some degree yet that compensateosure at that of fiee the exposure for his con would induct towards the parties. CORONERS' INQUESTS. Paul-street, Fins i Lry, on the remains of Mr. re- Betts, g an ---..---- ad Jour before Mr. dn a e m sda i f dA e iKe v : eninned inquest wa vered in a most wretched Nsi:ildell ee t h ti e hme c odarnon and ewr filthyh o at hlatashstseat been ee P :i a nn u 1 an i ' s no _ s O u.;: e_ ra a_ e ! spectably connected, but who has for some time P ast led a most miserable life, and whose body was clisci,o habited house on Saturday morning Mr. Higley, the person with w g hom the deceased had lodged for some years, and of whom he had fre quently complained for keeping p a p ers an d other Pre: perty from him worth 12,0001. or 14,0001, encond uc t, p fa a r i t d h i f n o g r tered into' a lengthened explanation of his . the lt ed w u and declared that he did not owe the deceased a sin g le had Franc e i but he, at the same time, was boarded and lodged gratuitously at his (witness's) house; so that, irlP e . i t n e of fact, if there was any difference it was aga inst 7, the common necessaries and as oa r ion e, of he on sa e id o , f t h h i a a t tahoeosueinceased 8, was reduced to such extreme poverty, and saidre had he would have made it his business to hav e deceased. He also denied knowing that th eceifash: lieved him. but at the same time expressed it to bet heir r, that had the unfortunate deceased been pvided will, The jury returned a verdict of " Natural deat,l22'; still be living. 11, Wednesday a coroner's inquest was taken at the Bell, Newton-street, Holborn, before Mr. STIRLING, w e : c : ing the death of Thomas Harvey,l.* eoach-sr'e6- maker, aged 57, who was found dm vv a ned i n a rt t n r- - butt. Michael Romble, smith, 30, Duke lived coins Inn-fields, worked with the deceased, whe the at 4, Newton-street. He was seen last alive on a ,... Sunday night, when he appeared to act like a?: on man. He did not live happily with his wife, Is 1 ,4 0„ Man that day went to some friends at Duke-street, ..i . T: __ chester-square, and who did not return home till Ig n ,Z; day morning, when the deceased was missing. sus , whole of that day he was not seen, nor Tuesday, an P' when: cions excited where he was till on the ile• comforts of life he would several of the lodgers complained that the water w ._ the butt had a very unpleasant taste. Witness of the consequence induced to look there with one si- He vi as tion, with his head and feet above the water. , ct. ,., not at work, and was daily inebriated. Vertu lodgers, when the deceased was found in a lying P ° ' " Temporary insanity." 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Caution. --To prevent iMP ° of tion an d by authority of the Honourable Coonnissiouerec, Stamps, the name and address of the proprietors is D f graved on the affixed on the cork °. government stamp n, 20, flattg e:h .... ............... eictsable perfumers, Garden Sold by them and most rep JERVIS . l Mrs. G e°. On the 31st ult., at Gr ove.piace, Denmark -h ill , , Towgood, of of a daughter. Mrs. John Morton, On the 2d inst., at Walthamstow, a son. ' ;r of I On the 2d • inst., in Dorset-square, Dirs. PlaYf3'" daughter. othe r, On the 2d inst., at BallthilwßicßklEChpu.rch, Bath, riattg e i det Esq., of Ashley, in the New Forest, to Julia, se c°" o .l j ,ter °I. th of the late Rev. Walter Trevelyan, and grandd 3" ,, et. 0 , late Sir John Trevelyan, of Nettlecombe-park, SO ~ Ser ; On the 2d inst ., Barr Brown, Esq., of Sunning' ',..010111-:f eldest son of James Brown, Esq., of NormanbY , to Helen, only dau g ht er o f the late Charles Clare,of Dover.street, Piccadilly. w, ra': a brer On the 31st ult., at All S a i n t s, H e rtford, Mr* ISaa" St. Peter's, Colche s t er , t o J ane W o ll a ston, young e' " ee f of the late Captain John Barrell, of Yarmouth. „,.y. On the 2d inst., at St. Olave's, Hart-street, the .!i`rdosOD Dyke, of Hinton, Northamptonshire, to Elizabeth, n i oto ter of Mr. James Clarke, of Newmoor, Southnliastel" r. On the 2d inst., at St. James's, Bermondsey, r o utes of K. Toase, eldest son of the Rev. William Toase , f 54. ' to Eliza, third daughter of the late William D' s- /te r , i ef Bermondsey. On the 3d inst., at St. George's, Hanover -0 1 °3 %i the d Richard Fiennes Wykeham Martin, second song 00100 Wykeham Martin, Esq., of Leeds Castle, Ken t, an te' st " Priory, Northamptonshire, to Mary, second clan-cod, A O Malcomb, Esq., of Poltalloch, Argyleshire, an d Kent. Job" s, to On the 3d inst., at Trinity Church, Southvanterao.o4., valho de Medeiros, Esq., of the New Kentaoati,,:oel°, Elizabeth Augusta, daughter of the late Peter 1. surgeon, and late of his Majesty's Forces. lvf r• illet DIED. . 0v On the 2d inst., at Claremont.terrace, l' e-t :ear..,,A,. Francis Rendle, of Clerkenwell.close, in his 5 7trj in 'rci, P s „ 0 4 ' 07 On the 3d inst., Mrs. Elizabeth Kent, of TwP i i AO' On the 3d inst., at Whitehall . house, Whitehall' reYr of Thomas Moulden Sherwood, Esq. .., I) , ' On the Ist inst., in Bath, aged 64, John Starlci,.iobir,e's4 of Charlinch, Somersetshire, and of Spye-Par, W 1 ' it ' i 1 C h aChambers, b t e Chambers,res 2 Eh l si s q : . iv, S oa e jf p e t s p e t m y : sr s e 4e r t.4 , tsh a q t uß C a er a ge : i in n c i e , c o nm r t : in , Navy. 1 tg0... 0 4 On the 28th ult., in Carlisle, in his 78th Yell e t enon - i mire, Esq., M.D., one of his Majesty's Deputy ' .-3-u • r '' ,siferA, a Justice of the Peace r Cumberland. ,„ i t fir , " On the 27th ult., at York-place, Chelsea, Ma r ' G e n od e ' 4 Peter Maxwell Hurst, Esq and granddaughter of Viscount Torrington. ' O . 00 --- nit 0 Ir, London : Printed and Published by 3 1 - - D d au • at the Sun O ffi ce, No. 312, S IT saelloil,:iteinnsaostboef 700430