The Sun.
London, England, 1830-04-19 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, AMU, 17.
COOPER V. COURTENAY.

This was an action against Dr. Courtenay of the
Adelphi, by the executor of the late Mr. Cooper, a
tailor, in Bond-street, to recover the amount of his
bill for clothes supplied to a son of the defendant, a
young man now serving his clerkship to an attorney.
The articles were supplied in December, 1828, and
subsequently, and the amount was about 40/. The
defendant, it appeared, had bad some difference with
his wile and other members of his family, and in
May, 1827, gave notice in writing to the late Mr.
Cooper, not to give credit to any one on his account
without his written order for that purpose. The
clothes in question were ordered by the wife a con-
siderable time after the service of this notice, and the
defendant now resisted the demand, on the ground
that after such a notice he was not liable to pay it.
Lord TENTERDEN acquiesced with the defendant's
counsel in this view of the case ; and, by his Lord-
ship's direction, the plaintiff was nonsuited.

INCEST.-PUBLIC JUSTICE DEFEATED.-
join( Bourn, aged GO, a gaunt ill-looking fellow, frost
Dockenfield, was placed at the bar at the Chester Assizes,
on Thursday, for violating his own daughters, MARY ANN
SAnate 13oonr, of the ages of IS and 14 respectively.
The Attorney-General requested the Court to postpone the
trial until the next Assizes, on account of the daughters
having absconded. The Judge said, he regretted he had
not the power to grant the application. As there was no
obligation on the witnesses to attend, they might be mis)
sine at the next Assizes, and at every sureeed.ng one also,
which would subject the prisoner to n perpetual impri-
,onnient. his Lordship then informed the prisoner that
for the present he was dischargssl ; but intimated to him
that he was liable to be taken up at any moment, and cau-
tioned him to be careful bow he conducted himself towards
his daughters—especially towards the younger, who is
bound apprentice to hire.-.-lie was then discharged.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION.HOUSE.

On Saturday a Jew, named Moses Moses, of very
smell and pitiful dimensions, and embellished with a
most cadaverous aspect, was charged with having
hit a porter, of more than double his weight, right
and left about the face. The porter stated that as
he was carrying some goods to a wharf in Thames-
street, he saw Moses with a sieve of oranges on his
head, standing with some other persons at the ea-
trance, and heard him say that he'd like to give a
slavey a warming. The prosecutor believing that
the words were directed to him, told Moses to go
about his business; but the Jew waited, and as he
(prosecutor) returned, " pitched into him" with
both hands, and at onco swelled his head to an
enormous size.

The LORD MAYOR—" Didn't you return the
blow ? I should think that you are large enough to
make such a fellow skip."—The prosecutor said the
thing was done so suddenly, and the Jew's knuckles
were so hard, that the light hew eut of his eyes
before he knew where he was. No provocation
whatever had been given.
The Jew gave a very different account of the
matter. He said that as he stood quietly with his
oranges upon his head, the porter gave him a tap,
and tumbled him. He then got up, and, of coarse,
defended himself against his opponent, who fought
like a tiger, "but as he knowed nothink about it, he
wan't likely to succeed."—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR said the oranges were all clean,
and asked whether they did not fall to the ground
when the Jew received the tap that tumbled him.
The prosecutor asserted that the Jew had laid
his sieve upon the ground, and regularly made fight,
and that he (the prosecutor) did not give the least
offence, nor strike a single blow.
An Irish orangeman, a friend of Moses, was ready
to swear drat the Jew had his sieve on his head all
the time of the row.
The LORD MAYOR—What I when he was
tumbled ? The Irishman, who had gone too far to
retract, loudly declared that the oranges stuck to
the Jew even in his fall, and during his exertions
in beating the porter about the head.
Mr. Hobler—l suppose you can account for that
scientifically. Fighting, they say, is now upon a
very improved principle; but I don't believe that
Dutch Sam could fight with a sieve of oranges on his
head.—(Laughter.)
The Irishman—l don't know how the —it is,
your Worship, but whatever the Jews take in hand
stick to them like putty. be on my oath that
he fought ail the time with the sieve of oranges on
his head; but they have got such a way of milling
now, that a man's eye-balls are sent bang into the
back of his head before he can see whether it's a
Jew or a Gentile that's afore him.—(Laughter.)
Moses all this time looked as sharp as a razor in
the countenance. Look at him, my Lord," said
the Irishman, " why his face is enough to cut any
man's fist in two."—(Laughter.)
The LialtD MAYOR—WeII, he has found a straight-
forward witness in you, at any rate; but we won't
encourage any of the fancy in the city, whatever
they may do at the West End. I wish that an end
could be put to this brutal practice. Moses—Please
your Vorship, the Jews lams in their own defence ;
ve are so exposed to insult, that ve're obligated to
pitch it in as yell as ye can.
The LORD MAYOR—WeII, you are all going into
Parliament very soon, and then I hope there will be
no occasion for the fighting system. Moses—Please
your Vorship, ren ve gets mancipated, I hope the
milling viii be reg'lated properly, for upon my word,
ii's so bad of late, that I'm ashamed to be seen near
the ring.—(Laughter.)—The first thing ve ought to
do, your Vorship, is to stop this here robbing sys-
tem, for it's scandalous that a gentleman can't fight
now, vithout it's said he's ageing for to cross. It's
a shame, your Vorship.—( Loud laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR said that the Jew's language
was getting fast out of kis latitude, and he should
put a close to the discussion by calling upon him to
find bail. The prosecutor then groped his way out
of the Justice-room, and the Jew was obliged to find
bail, which he quickly did from Petticoat-lane.