The Sun.
London, England, 1837-03-01 00:00:00

COURT MAGAZINE

There is a picturesque landscape engraving in this Num-
ber, of the castle of " Steep-hill, Isle of Wight," whose
only defect is that the building is drawn on far too large a
scale. In a similar spirit of exaggeration, the writer of a
clever descriptive article entitled, " My First Visit to the
Isle of Wight," talks of the cliff at " Black-gang Chine,"
rising about 500 feet above the level of the sea, whereas its
elevation scarcely exceeds 100. This is what Sam Foote would
call " poetical prose" with a vengeance ! " Twelve Flours in
the Life of a Nervous Man" is a highly interesting story,
which, however, is not concluded=--a great defect in Maga-
zine stories, which, to be effective, should always he
finished in one Number. The " Hindoo Legend" contains
nothing worthy of comment,

CHANCERY CO ullT._(r HIS DAY.)

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The Lord CHANCELLOR sat in Lincoln's Inn Hall to-day,
and was occupied the whole morning with the further argu-
ments in the part heard case of Ellis v. Goodson.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)

MIREHUUSE V. SCAIFE.

His HoNona gave judgment this morning in this case, over-
ruling the demurrer.
In consequence of Mr. KNIGHT being engaged in the Lord
Chancellor's Cuurt none of the cases in the paper could be
proceeded with, and his HoNoun rose shortly after eleven
o'clock.

CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.

Thomas Comber was indicted for stealing a letter, contain-
ing a half sovereign and a sixpence, the property of Elizabeth
Foreman, he being at the time of the offence (14th of Jan.),
in the employment of the General Post-office.
Charlotte Anne Foreman—l am a servant in the family of
Mr. Townend, Euston-square. I have a sister living with a
family in Fulham. In January last, I wanted to send her half
a sovereign and a sixpence. I put it into a letter, having
placed it in a bit of paper, and pinned it. I directed the letter
to my sister, and posted it at Tavistock-place. I gave it to
Mrs. Was, who keeps the Post-office there, and I paid the
postage. I told her it was a money letter. I heard nothing
further about it till the 10th of February, when the officer
came to me.

Elizabeth Willis—My husband keeps the Twopenny-post
receiving letter-box at Tavistock-place. The entry now pro-
duced is in my hand-writing, and thus all cash letters are en-
tered. It is sent to the Post-office. On the paper produced
was an entry of a letter, addressed to Elizabeth Foreman, at
Fulham, received on the night of the 13th of January, and for-
warded next morning by the witness.
William Willis proved having dispatched the eight o'clock
letters, among them one addressed to Elizabeth Foreman at
Fulham nn the morning of the 14th of January.
Styles, a twopenny-post letter-carrier proved having taken
the letters from Mr. Willis on the morning of the 14th of
January, and having brought them in a bag to the General
Post- Office.

John Alfred Harvey, a clerk in the General Post-office,
proved the receipt of the entry of cash letters from Mr.
Willis on the morning of the 14th of January; the letters
corresponded with those marked on the bill.

Ancither clerk in the Twopenny-post Department proved
having forwarded the letter addressed to Eliza Foreman, Par-
son's-green, Fulham, with a receipt to be signed by her,
which receipt was subsequently returned, duly signed, to the
Post-office.

The several clerks in the Post-office, through whose offices
the Fulham letters passed on the morning of the l‘ttli of Jan.,
deposed to the fact, that on that day the usual course in their
transmission was followed.

Francis Drake—l am the principal letter-carrier at Fulham.
On the 14th of January I received this bill with the London
letters of that morning. The signature of the prisoner, T.
Cumber, is placed opposite to the entry of the letter addressed
to E. Foreman. That is the usual mode of acknowledgment
for having received a letter. The receipt for the letter came
from the General Post-office, and was taken with it for the
purpose of being signed by the person to whom it was ad-
dressed. Elizabeth Foreman carne to me on the sth of Feb.
to make inquiry about a letter. I spoke to the prisoner on the
following day, and asked him what he had done with the letter
to Foreman. He said his wife found it in one of his coat
pockets, and he had been that morning to deliver it. -I asked
where was the receipt, to which he replied, that he
could not wait for it, as he had to call at Dr.
Keats's for some money. I expressed my surprise that the
London Office had not sent for the receipt, and he
said he supposed they had forgotten to do so. He added that
he would make it all right, and from that expression I thought
it my duty to see Eliz. Foreman. When I returned I charged
the prisoner with having told a lie respecting the letter, as
he had never been near the house in which Foreman lived.
He said he must have made some answer that he could not
find the letter, but he would make it all right. At a subse-
quent interview with the prisoner, he admitted having never
been with the letter to Foreman. Next day I told him my
intention to report the circumstance, and I accordingly com-
municated with the General Post office on the subject. A
person came down to Fulham with me for the purpose of in-
vestigating the matter. We searched for the prisoner, but I
could never see him until I met him at Bow-street.

Elizabeth Foreman-;-I lived at Parson's-green, Fulham, in
January last. I did not in that month receive a letter contain-
ing a half-sovereign and a sixpence from my sister. I heard
that such a one was sent, and I went on Feb. 5, to Mr. Drake
the chief letter-carrier to see about it. I saw the prisoner also, and
asked him respecting it ; he hesitated. He said he had been
ill, and had got his brother to deliver the letters for him. I
told him I expected money in a letter, and that I would require
him to make it good to me. He answered he would, and I
told him I should not trouble myself farther about it. He
came to my master's house on the Bth of February. Before
I saw him I had been speaking to a gentleman from the Lon-
don Post-office. I spoke first to the prisoner, telling him it
was a sad affair. He acknowledged having done wrong, and
was very sorry for it. The receipt now produced for the let-
ter, which bears my name, is not in any handwriting, nor was
it authorized by me.
The constable who apprehended the prisoner proved having
found him in bed at about two o'clock in the afternoon of the
9th of February ; he had all his clothes on, except his shoes
and hat. He said he knew the charge against him related
to Elizabeth Foreman's letter, but that he had made it all right,
by paying her the money, that nothing would have been amiss,
but for his having forged the receipt, and his comrade having
given information against him. The constable searched him
and found five letters, and two bank receipts. I returned ono
of the five letters to him by directions of the magistrates at
Bow-street.

It was proved in evidence that the prisoner dropped a letter
from the Bow-street van while on his way to that office ; it
contained a leaf from a bible, on the margin of which
there was pencilling in the prisoner's handwriting. It
was addressed to his wife, and desired her to inclose
a half sovereign and a sixpence to Eliza Foreman in a letter,
with no name subscribed, but stating that it was found some
time before by a poor person, who being in distressed circum-
stances then used it ; and now, having heard of the prisoner's
being taken into custody on a charge of stealing the letter,
was induced to return it.

Mr. PAYNE having addressed the Jury on behalf of the
prisoner,
Mr. Justice • PARK recapitulated the evidence, after which
a verdict of Guilty was returned.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY)•

DEAL, FEB. 28. —Wind E. by N., steady fresh breezes.—
The Urania, while at anchor in the Downs, was run on board
of by the schooner Anne and Mary, and sustained considerable
damage ; she will proceed for the River to-morrow morning if
the weather permits. Sailed, the Andrews, M`Kean, for
Odessa; the Alexander, —, for Waterford.
CREEK, FEB. 28.—Arrived, the Snowdrop, Trevavas, from
Kurtch.

PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 28. Arrived, the James Cruikshank,
—, from Demerara ; the Gladiator, Britten, New York.
PLYMOUTH, FEB. 28. —Wind variable.—Arrived, the Mina,
Hall, IN ith loss of anchor and chains.

LIVERPOOL, FRB. 27.—Arrived, the Manchester, Patten,
from New Orleans.

The wreck of a large ship, the after part even with the
water's edge, and several timber• forward above water, was
passed on Saturday night 6 leagues N. W. by W., by his Ma-
jesty's Royal Steamer Etna.

Several pieces of wreck, supposed to belong to a schooner
about 60 or 70 tons, painted black outside and light green on
the inside, recently caulked and copper fastened up to the
heads, have been washed on shore at I-loylake.
FALMOUTH, FEB. 27.—`Vied N. N. \V.—Arrived the Thames
steamer, —, fron►

MARVPORT, FEB. 26.—The St. George, Poole, and the
Ann, Blair, for Dublin, in going out grounded outside the
Lighthouse Quay ; the former discharged part of cargo, and
they both got off this morning's tide andb proceeded, with little
damage.

The Alexander, from Canton to Singapore, struck on a
sunken rock in lat. 1, long. 112 east, and was totally wrecked
—crew saved.

The Hotining, from Gloucester, was on shore near Nybourg,
the 22,1 ult.

The Princess Victoria, from Calcutta to Liverpool, has been
burned at sea.

The Standard, from Savannah to Jamaica, was wrecked on
the Caicos, the Ist December.

Captain Riley, of the Imogene, reports that, in a typhoon
in the China seas, about the 31st January last, near the 1,3‘
drone Islands, the following ships were totally lost—viz., the
Bombay ships, Almody andTherrnitage—Manilla ship, Gene-
ral Buskeis—English ships, Margaret Graham and Isabella.
The mate of the bark Martha reports, that on the 24th Ve;
ember they saw five persons on a reef near Algoa Bay, calk,:
Boards Island, apparently shipwrecked,-but that they did n°
succeed in taking them from the reef.